Software Is Becoming More Important For Military Production Projects

F-35: A Software Heavy Aircraft

Sharpen Yourself: A Kanban System for Software Engineering -- Defense Industry Daily

Software is a growing slice of military production budgets, and it isn’t always found in obvious places. On the ground, BAE Systems’ FMTV medium trucks seem prosaic, but a look under the hood reveals an astonishing level of software code in each vehicle. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, a big winner in the Pentagon’s FY 2010 budget recommendations, considers the aircraft’s code to be one of its most important – and most secret – aspects. In the Navy, a movement toward open electronic architectures is culminating in the DDG-1000 “destroyer” and its Total Ship Computing Environment – an area recently identified by the US GAO audit office as a significant program risk.

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My Comment: With trends towards robotic systems increasing, one can only expect software to follow and assume an equivalent and important role.