A Great Gathering Thank you for inviting me to share a few thoughts with you today. And I have got to tell you, you must be doing something right, here. You are to be congratulated for being able to get so many professionals here at one time for such an important event.
Software is a subject that deserves much of our attention.
As all of you know, we rely on software so much to produce the capabilities that we need today for war fighting. Software processors have permeated the battlefield in everything from commercial vehicles to our fighting vehicles. Yet, software has been the Achilles' heel of so many of our systems and continues to be so. This morning I will talk to you about more than making software predictable. Our software needs to be reliable, flexible, reusable, available, and inexpensive.