Software Engineering Institute

2025 Year in Review Highlights SEI Impact in Software, Cyber, AI, and Acquisition for National Security

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) today released its annual review of noteworthy research and development projects from the previous fiscal year. The 2025 SEI Year in Review highlights some of ...
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Tools for Building an AI-Enabled SOC

Building an effective security operations capability such as a security operations center (SOC) has always been a challenging endeavor. Balancing the need to successfully integrate the people, ...
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Software Architecture Design and Analysis

A system's software architecture is widely regarded as one of the most important software artifacts. Software professionals routinely make decisions that impact that architecture, yet many times that ...
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AI for Autonomy Lab

The Department of Defense (DoD) has long recognized the potential benefits of using autonomous systems for mission success. Over the last 10 years, there have been advances in artificial intelligence ...
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Execution Strategy

The SEI facilitates the transfer of research results to practice in Department of War (DoW) programs, the Office of the Secretary of War’s science and technology initiatives, and non-DoW U.S.
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Rust Software Security: A Current State Assessment

Sible, J., and Svoboda, D., 2022: Rust Software Security: A Current State Assessment. Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Insights (blog ...
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Prioritizing Vulnerability Response: A Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (Version 2.0)

This paper presents version 2.0 of a testable Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) that takes the form of decision trees and that avoids some problems with the Common Vulnerability ...
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How Easy Is It to Make and Detect a Deepfake?

Bernaciak, C., and Ross, D., 2022: How Easy Is It to Make and Detect a Deepfake?. Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Insights (blog ...
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Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method Collection

This collection contains resources about the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a method for evaluating software architectures against quality attribute goals. The Architecture Tradeoff ...
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Architecting the Future of Software Engineering: A National Agenda for Software Engineering Research & Development

The SEI led the community in creating this multi-year research and development vision and roadmap for engineering next-generation software-reliant systems. Software is vital to our country’s global ...
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10 Types of Application Security Testing Tools: When and How to Use Them

Scanlon, T., 2018: 10 Types of Application Security Testing Tools: When and How to Use Them. Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Insights ...
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An Introduction to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Shevchenko, N., 2020: An Introduction to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Insights (blog ...