At the Army's Software Factory in Austin, Texas, soldiers and contractors collaborate to develop and field software capabilities and learn from commercial best practices. (Davis Winkie/Staff) In the ...

WASHINGTON — Scientific Systems, a defense contractor based in Woburn, Massachusetts, won a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop software for in-space object detection and ...

Illustration of the Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit architecture. Credit: SDA WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency awarded a $64 million contract to Science Applications International ...

A recent report claims that one of the fundamental benefits of open-source development, the co-called Law of Many Eyes is wrong. The idea behind the law is that since anyone can read the source code ...

Companies are increasingly curious about AI and the ways in which it can be used to (potentially) boost productivity. But they’re also wary of the risks. In a recent Workday survey, enterprises cite ...

Evolving technology is changing the nature of warfare. Software has transformed from a means of operating hardware-based weapons systems to being the essential driver of nearly all the Army's weapons, ...

Software engineering is among the many fields being changed with the fast progress in large language models (LLMs). In a few years, LLMs have evolved from advanced code autocomplete tools to AI agents ...

Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

An early access version of the platform will be available to select partners later this year. Credit: Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock. BlackBerry’s division QNX and software tools manufacturer Vector ...