Services

FCMD advances real-world software practices through innovative research into software-engineering
technologies and processes. The Center’s expertise encompasses the following specific areas within
the software-engineering field:
• Embedded software
• Software-intensive systems
• Network-centric system of systems
• Knowledge management
• Measurement
• Defect management
• Risk management
• COTS-based development
• Process improvement
• Requirements management
• Quality assurance processes
• Independent verification and validation
• Inspection techniques
• Software architecture
• Testing
• Formal methods
• Quality assurance
• Software safety and security
FCMD applies expertise in software-engineering practices, software acquisition, and IT process engineering
in consideration of customer organizations’ contexts, goals, project objectives, and cultures. FCMD adapts and
leverages industry models for best practice solution in addressing specific needs.