Software and Systems Division Organization

Mark Skall
Division Chief

Jan Madison
Division Secretary

Software and Systems Division (897): Works with industry, academia and other government agencies to accelerate the development and adoption of correct, reliable, testable software, leading to increased trust and confidence in deployed software; promulgates methods to develop better standards and testing tools for today's software infrastructures and tomorrow's next-generation software systems; advances the state of the art of software testing by developing scientifically rigorous, breakthrough techniques to automatically generate tests that are cheaper to develop and more comprehensive; leads efforts for conformance testing, especially at the early stage of standards development; develops integrated test environments to coalesce systems; facilitates the transfer of these activities and technologies into national infrastructures and commercial sectors.

Software Components Group (897.01) [Group Leader: Barbara Guttman] -- Accelerates the integration of software within systems by assuring the correctness of individual software components; improves software quality including reliability, compliance with standards, dependability, testability, correctness and fault-tolerance; develops measurements, tools, and methods for establishing the foundation for describing, evaluating, and achieving software trustworthiness; performs research to support improved software requirements definition, software testing, and software metrics.

Information Systems Group (897.02) [Group Leader: Lynne Rosenthal] -- Accelerates the adoption of robust, reliable complex systems and infrastructures by reducing the risk of integrating component-based software; improves quality, conformance to standards, and robustness of information technology from a systems perspective; develops software tools, best practices, testing procedures and prototypes as well as simulations and measurement of behaviors to promote the deployment of standards-based systems; explores new methodologies for assessing and ensuring quality across the system life-cycle.

Interoperability Group (897.03) [Group Leader: Lisa Carnahan] -- Accelerates the adoption of cost-effective information technology infrastructures by removing technical obstacles to implementation and interoperability; improves the implementation of multi-standards environments and the interoperability of standards-based systems; develops reusable testing components that comprise dynamic integrated testing environments providing a platform for multi-organization workflow testing; infuses emerging technologies into integrated testing environment development; explores new techniques for multi-standard test definition and results validation.