Major Christine Bonniksen, IPT Lead for the Boeing Company,
                        United States Air Force Base, christine.bonniksen@losangeles.af.mil

As part of the selection process for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Program, sponsored and funded by the United States Air Force (USAF), the Boeing Company competed in the proposal to develop a family of launch vehicles for the Department of Defense. The request for proposal required the competing contractors to participate in a Software Development Capability Evaluation (SDCE). This presentation provides an overview of the SDCE, its use by the USAF, the Boeing response process, and the USAF evaluation process. It gives the attendee insight into what occurred during the SDCE from both the customer and contractor perspectives. The attendee will discover what work is required from both sides in order to conduct an SDCE, the lessons learned from two SDCEs conducted a year apart, and results that surprised the customer and the contractor.

Biography: Karen L. Powel is currently the Senior Manager overseeing the software Formal Qualification Testing for the Boeing Ground Based Intercepter (GBI) Program. She has been with The Boeing Company for more than 14 years. During her management of the software development for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle/Delta IV Program, two Software Development Capability Evaluations (SDCEs) were conducted. Karen has also been the Software Engineering Process Group Lead for Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Space and Defense Systems and Transport Aircraft for five years from 1991 through 1996. Under her leadership Boeing conducted four successful SPAs, one CBA-IPI, and participated in Software Capability Evaluation (SCE). She has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from California State University. Karen has over 22 years experience, ranging from commercial to aerospace software development and major software subcontract management, including employment at Hughes, Honeywell and Ford Aerospace.

Biography: Major Christine K. Bonniksen has been the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Senior Program Manager for the last three years overseeing all EELV work performed by The Boeing Company. During this time the government performed two Software Development Capability Evaluations (SDCE) on the EELV program for which she performed the government's management function. During her 16 years in the Air Force, Major Bonniksen has been involved in all aspects of space acquisition. Prior to being assigned to Los Angeles Air Force Base, she oversaw a software prototyping program based on high COTS software usage and 100% COTS hardware, several of these prototypes were further developed into fully operational systems. She has a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Oregon State University and a Master's degree in Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles.

Coordinator: George W. O'Mary, The Boeing Company, george.w.o'mary@boeing.com

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Next Meeting:

Date: Friday, December 4, 1998
Topic: Team Software Process
Speaker: Watts S. Humphrey, SEI Fellow, Software Engineering Institute
                  Carnegie Mellon University
Coordinator: Leitha Purcell, Northrop Grumman,
                      purcele@mail.northgrum.com, lapurcell@earthlink.com

The Irvine Research Unit in Software wishes to thank its corporate sponsors:

Sustaining:

The Boeing Company * Boeing North American, Inc. * Microsoft Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation * Raytheon Company * Sun Microsystems Laboratories * TRW

Supporting:

Beckman Coulter * FileNet Corporation * Printronix, Inc.*

Continuus Software Corporation * Hewlett Packard

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