Finding a way to decouple software from hardware–and invest adequately in research and development to improve the software–will be key to implementing several open architecture goals for the military, several speakers said Tuesday at Defense Daily’s Open Architecture Summit. Historically, the idea of common interfaces has been applied more vigorously to hardware, whereas software is typically tied to hardware and therefore proprietary and stovepiped, Doug Schmidt, a professor at Vanderbilt University and the Software Engineering Institute, said during a panel…
