11 Jun 2002
BAE Systems Mission Solutions has achieved a level of software capability which places the company in the top six percent of all measured companies nation-wide. The Software Productivity Consortium, in accordance with standards set forth by the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, certified the San Diego-based business unit with a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 4 rating on May 16.
Mission Solutions now joins other BAE Systems business units certified as CMM Level 4 or higher including Communications, Navigation and Identification in Wayne, New Jersey and Information and Electronics Warfare Systems in Nashua, New Hampshire. "This is a tremendous achievement for our engineering organisation," stated Eric Lasley, vice president of engineering for Mission Solutions. "We must continuously improve in order to maintain our status as a premiere developer of complex, software intensive systems. This certification reflects the high maturity level of our development processes and, in particular, our ability to quantitatively manage the quality of those processes and the products they produce."
Bob Stow, BAE Systems North America vice president for engineering and technology, said, "Mission Solutions' outstanding achievement is part of our enterprise-wide initiative to achieve world class software CMM levels by leveraging best practices across all of our businesses. In addition to the disciplined quality of our software processes, significant productivity improvements in excess of ten percent have also been realised across our software development organisations as a result of this initiative.""
The CMM assessment spanned three weeks. Assessors rigorously reviewed Mission Solutions' documented processes and interviewed all levels of software practitioners in order to reach the software maturity rating. This achievement positions Mission Solutions at a world class level of software engineering maturity.
