The Dod Life Cycle Model
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics eBooks · 1991
For more than two decades, the Department of Defense (DOD) has relied on a waterfall approach to develop software for embedded computer resources. Beginning in 1985, the DOD developed joint service military standards for software development that rely upon the waterfall model. The waterfall model provides the government with explicit oversight and control of the development effort, but also introduces several problems to resolve.