Government Ownership of Software: Boon or Bane?
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Many people have noted that the Government keeps buying software−intensive systems that are often quite similar to each other. A recent article in Crosstalk1, for example, listed a large number of different systems in the DoD C4I application area that performed essentially the same functions. Several DoD sponsored studies, most notably one done by the Air Force PRISM program, have shown that 70−80% of the needed functionality in an application area is essentially the same from one system to the next.
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