SOFTWARE CAPABILITY EVALUATION CONSORTIUM MEETING On 15 October 97, a meeting of the government-wide Software Capability Evaluation Consortium will be held at Hanscom AFB, MA. This meeting will include interested industry representation as well as government agency representation. The objective is to present the proposed DoD application of the SCE Reuse. Electronic Systems Center (ESC) Software Center established a Software Capability Evaluation Consortium made up of DOD and non-DOD Government agencies. This Consortium was formed in May of 1997 to expand the work of a Tri-Service Group, headed by the Software Center, which promoted the use of Software Capability Evaluations (SCEs), reuse of SCE results and worked to improve consistency in application of the SCE method. Toward this goal, the ESC Software Center has developed a process for SCE Reuse which is published in ESC-TR-96-145, Reuse of Software Capability Evaluation (SCE) Volume I: Concept of Operations and Volume II: Procedures. On 25 July 97, Mr. Noel Longuemare, Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology), assigned the System Engineering Steering Group (SESG) primary responsibility for furthering development of the initial framework. Initially, the framework will be strengthened in the area of sharing of software capability. In turn, the SESG established the SCE reuse Group (SRG) to accomplish this objective. The SRG is addressing the software capability evaluation reuse issues in two phases. In Phase 1, the SRG will focus on the reuse of SCEs in source selection as it is applicable across the DoD. In Phase 2, the focus will be to include other types of software capability evaluations and their use in all stages of software acquisition. The SRG is revising the ESC SCE Reuse Concept of Operations and Procedures documents to reflect the two phased approach. Phase 1 is to be completed by 24 Oct 97. Interested companies should notify the Software Center of their intention to attend. The points of contact are Kathie McCullough or Cathi Sparaco at the following E-mail address, mcculloughk@hanscom.af.mil, sparacoc@hanscom.af.mil, or phone at (617) 377-8493 and (617) 377-8491, respectively. Companies should reply by 22 Sep 97 so that we can finalize a meeting facility.

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