With unprecedented budget cuts resulting from Sequestration and a United States economy that has not yet rebounded, `do more with less' is the new motto for both industry and government. However, that is easier said than done. With 70% of a product's life cycle cost set at the concept...
Usability issues present in current Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems diminish healthcare provider satisfaction, lower productivity, and introduce medication-related errors, all major factors that impact improvements in the quality-of-care and lead to unrealized savings estimated at $12...
The difficulty of detecting insider threats before catastrophic events can occur continues to plague many industries, and the aviation industry is under particular pressure to detect possible infiltration by terrorists and their sympathizers posing as legitimate workers. Insider threats were...
Risk identification during the design and development phases of complex systems is commonly implemented but often fails to result in the identification of events and circumstances that truly challenge project performance. Inefficiencies in cost and schedule estimation are usually held accountable...
As a result of the reuse of legacy systems by the Department of Defense (DoD), DoD programs often experience overruns and technical difficulties. With the constriction of DoD budgets, reuse of legacy systems is frequently touted as the solution to cost, efficiency, and time to delivery problems;...