re level in apr fnalf fnal gov bill higgins beam jockey writes in article almaden ibm com wingert vnet ibm com bret wingert writes the onboard flight software project was rated level by a nasa team this group generates kslocs of verified code per year for nasa will someone tell an ignorant physicist where the term level comes from it sounds like the risks digest equivalent of large extra large jumbo or maybe it s like defcon i gather it means that shuttle software was developed with extreme care to have reliablility and safety and almost everything else in the computing world is level or cheesy dime store software not surprising but who is it that invents this standard and how come everyone but me seems to be familiar with it level refers to the carnegie mellon software engineering institute s capability maturity model this model rates software development org s from with being chaotic and being optimizing dod is beginning to use this rating system as a discriminator in contracts i have more data on thifrom page to i have a page presentation that summarizes it wethat i could fax to you if you re interested bret wingert wingert vnet ibm com fax
