CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A team led by
Raytheon BBN Technologies is developing methods to make mobile
applications viable for up to 100 years, despite changes in
hardware, operating system upgrades and supporting services. The
U.S. Air Force is sponsoring the four-year, $7.8 million contract under the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency's Building Resource Adaptive Software
Systems program.
"Mobile apps are pervasive in the military, but frequent
operating system upgrades, new devices and changing missions and
environments require manual software engineering that is expensive
and causes unacceptable delays," said Partha Pal, principal scientist at Raytheon BBN.
"We are developing techniques to eliminate these interruptions by
identifying the way these changes affect application functionality
and modifying the software."
To provide software usefulness for many years, the Raytheon-led
team, which also includes Securboration, Inc., Oregon State University, Vanderbilt University and Syracuse University, plans to:
- Develop a set of static and dynamic discovery techniques to
identify the ways in which changes in the application's ecosystem
can affect the software's functionality;
- Develop a set of transformation technologies that modify the
software as needed to adapt to these changes;
- Create a software framework to demonstrate and evaluate
software evolution in response to ecosystem changes.
These advances could lead to long-lived software systems that
satisfy critical customer needs over generations of devices and
emerging missions.
Raytheon BBN Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN).
About Raytheon
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$23 billion and 61,000 employees, is
a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil
government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of
innovation spanning 94 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art
electronics, mission systems integration,
C5I™ products and services, sensing, effects, and
mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon
is headquartered in Waltham, Mass.
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