All course materials and handouts will be provided to students on CD ROM. Please bring a laptop computer that is equipped with a CD ROM with you to the class. If you do not have access to a laptop, please contact the respective meeting planner as soon as possible. There will be a limited number of laptops available for use through NDIA, so please call early. Overview The Defense Systems Acquisition Management course meets the needs of defense...

The National Defense Industrial Association Systems Engineering Division is pleased to announce the 12th Annual CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Technology Conference & User Group. The purpose of the conference is to exchange ideas, concepts and lessons learned concerning the continuing evolution, adoption and use of the CMMI® and its associated appraisal methods. This conference brings together CMMI® adopters, use...

The Physics-Based Modeling in Design & Development for U.S. Defense Conference is the first of its kind and is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association’s Systems Engineering Division, and is being supported by the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research & Engineering, High Performance Computing Modernization Program. BackgroundAcquisition of defense systems now takes far longer than ever before, partly due to inc...

The CMMI® was developed in cooperation with commercial and defense industry, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Software Engineering Institute and has become the de facto standard for integrated process improvement across multiple disciplines and areas of interest within commercial and defense industry, and governments, worldwide. This conference addresses all categories of users and applications and seeks to help provide a better und...