Providing Access to Worldwide Software Quality Technology Sources

Government Organizations

Organizations or Units of the various Governments throughout the world which deal somehow with software quality issues.

USA

US Government, non-DoD Organizations

• CHISSA
• Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division's Projects(Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• NIST Quality Program (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• NIST Software Quality Group
• The Software Engineering Laboratory of NASA and GSFC
• Recommended Approach to Software Development (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Center for Data Analysis Technology and Applications(Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• Energy Science and Technology Software Center (Possible broken link -- Dec99)
• NASA Software Assurance Center
• Formal Inspections Page
• NASA Software Standards
• NASA Software Independent Verification and Validation
• Reference Information for the Software Verification and Validation Process (NIST Special Publication 500-234, April 1996)
• NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
• Technical Development and Quality Systems
• Total Quality Control Home Page (NASA) (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)

US Government, DoD Organizations

• Air Force Quality Institute (US) (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Center for High Assurance Computing Systems operated by the Information Technology Division of the Naval Research Laboratory
• NRL's Center for High Quality Computer Systems (CHACS) Publications
• Center for High Integrity Assurance Computing Systems
• Quality Function Deployment (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Quality Function Deployment Institute
• Reliability Analysis Center (RAC)

US Government, DoD Software Acquisition Policy and Information

• Air Force Acquisition Policy and Information Click on Policy
• Air Force Acquisition Model Click on Policy (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Army Acquisition Policy and Information Click on Subject Index under "Finding Information", Click on Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition
• Defense Information Systems Agency Policy, Standards, and Information
• DoD Directives and Instructions On-line
• DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (DODISS) On-line (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Federal Acquisition Jumpstation
• Federal Acquisition Regulations Click on Contracting, Click on FAR Etc
• Navy Acquisition reform information Click on Naval Web Sites (alphabetical), Click on Navy Acquisition Reform (ARO)
• Office of the Secretary of Defense Acquisition and Technology, Military Specifications, and Standards Reform Information

US Government, DoD Software Engineering and Technology Information and Services

• Air Force Software Engineering and Technology Information Click on Air Force Sites
• Army Software Engineering and Technology Information Click on Subject Index under "Finding Information"
• Data & Analysis Center for Software
• General Accounting Organization
• Navy Software Engineering and Technology Information
• Rome Laboratory Software Engineering and Technology Information Click on C3 (at the bottom of the page)
• Reuse Information Clearinghouse Click on Reuse1C
• Software Program Managers Network (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems Program Information
• Software Technology Support Center

US Government, DoD Software Education and Training

• Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) Graduate Software and Management Classes Click on AFIT Catalog
• AFIT Professional Continuing Education Software and Management Classes Click on School of Systems and Logicistics under "Professional Continuing Education" (Prossible Broken Link, June'2003)
• Air Force Software Technology Training Classes (Includes Ada Training) (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Defense Acquisition University, Software Acquisition Management Classes Click on Information Resources Management College; Click on Defense Acquisition University; Click on Catalog
• Naval Postgraduate School Classes Click on Naval Web sites (alphabetical); Click on Naval Postgraduate School; Click on Academic Departments

US Government, DoD Software Publications

• CROSSTALK The Journal of Defense Software Engineering On-Line (Note: Click on Subscription Form to request a free subscription to CROSSTALK) (Possible Broken Link, 02JUN03)
• CHIPS On-line (Possible Broken Link, 01JUL03)

Commercial Software Acquisition and Engineering Policy, Information, Education, and Services

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• ANSI Standards Catalog Click on The ANSI Catalog; Click on Searching the ANSI Catalog; Click on Search; Enter "software" for the search
• Fed Center (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Federal Computer Week Click on Federal Computer Week (NOTE: To see the "mega list of federal Web sites," click on Reference Desk, then click on Megalist of Federal Sites (under Government Hotlists)
• Government Computer News
• Software Productivity Consortium

USA State/Local Government Organizations

• Arizona Governor's Award for Quality US(Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• Maine State Quality Award
• Washington Quality Initiative
• Washington State Quality Award (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)

North/South America

• Software Productivity Centre - Canada
• National Research Council Canada IIT Software Engineering Laboratory

Europe

• Office of Naval Research (ONR) -- Europe HomePage (Europe)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)
• Fraunhofer Institut für Software und Systemtechnik (Deutsch)
• Software Quality and Productivity [SCOPE Project] (Germany)

Pacific Rim

• Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)(Possible broken link -- May1999) (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• KAIST - Software Engineering Lab - Current research topics include software assurance, testing, metrics, etc. (Korea).

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Non-Commercial Organizations    (BACK TO MAIN INDEX)   (TOP OF PAGE)

Organizations and institutions that are not part of any Government, but may be affiliated with Governments or Universities.

USA

• ADL (Assertion Definition Language) (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation US
• ANSI Standards Action (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC)
• American Society For Quality (ASQ)
• American Society for Quality Northern Colorado Section US
• Altlanta Quality Assurance Association
• Bay Area Software Process Improvement Network
• Boston Software Process Improvement Network
• CMU - Software Engineering Institute
• National Asset Source for Software Engineering
• Center For Software Development
• Institute for Improvement in Quality (Possible broken link -- Dec1999)
• National Software Council (USA) Aiming to preserve and expand USA software technology leadership.
• Institute for Software Process Improvement (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• Institute for Software Quality Automation Home Page
• Software Publishers Association
• Sacramento Area Quality Association
• Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group
• VT Enterprise Software Outsourcing

North/South America

• Software Engineering Resource List (NRC, Canada)

Europe

• European Foundation for Quality
• European Foundation For Quality Management Belgium
• European Software Institute (ESI)
• European Software Improvement Initiative (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• European Space Agency Software Standards
• Le développement de l'assurance qualité (France) (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• German National Research Center for Information Technology (Germany)
• Institute for Computer Testing (Netherlands)
• IDG International Data Group, provider of information services for the IT industry.(Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• IDG Dutch Language Home Page of IDG Webwereld Magazine (Netherlands)
• IDG Swedish language home page of IDG (Sweden).
• Irish Quality Assurance Association (Possible broken link -- Dec1999)
• Kwaliteit op Internet (Netherlands) (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• PITKY Software Testing in Finland (Finland)
• QFD Institut Deutschland
• Quality Computing (UK) (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• Quality Homepage (Netherlands)
• Quality Management (Germany)
• Research Computing Group - Talented students working software development, support, and more. (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• SAST - Swedish Association for Software Testing (English)(Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• Software Engineering Research Centre (Netherlands)
• University of York (UK)

Pacific Rim

• Australian Software Quality Research Institute (Possible broken link -- Dec1999)
• The Australian Software Metrics Association (ASMA)
• CASQ (Chinese Association for Software Quality) (Link Found Dead @ 01AUG01)
• New Zealand Organization for Quality (Link Found Dead @ 01OCT02)
• Queensland SPIN Software Process Improvement Network Australia

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