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The Fire Control Systems & Technology Directorate's 89,000
square-foot Armament Software Engineering Center (Armament SEC) is
an Army Material Command Chartered Life Cycle Software Engineering
Center. The Armament SEC provides the US Soldier, RDECOM, Joint
Ammunition Life Cycle Management Center, Soldier/Ground Systems
Life Cycle Management Center, resident PEO/PMs and other customers
a Center of Excellence for software engineering services and
software acquisition support for Army Weapon Systems, Training
Devices and Combat Support Systems throughout the entire system
life cycle. The Armament SEC serves as a voting member of the
Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) for
all software released by ARDEC and resident PMs. The Armament SEC
chairs the Weapon System Technical Working Group for the DoD
Information Standards Registry (DISR) and the Weapon System
Technical Architecture Working Group.
The Armament SEC applies requirements definition analysis,
architectural design, systems software design and analysis,
software engineering and integration, software verification
testing, software fielding, software acquisition support,
configuration management, and process assurance towards weapons and
munitions, training devices, chemical/biological detectors. The
M109A6 self-propelled howitzer " Paladin Automatic Fire Control
System, Paladin AFCS PC-Based Trainer, the Mortar Fire Control
System (MFCS), the Lightweight Handheld Mortar Ballistic Computer
(LHMBC) and the M1A1 Abrams Ballistic Computer are among some of
the software intensive systems that the Armament SEC has recently
developed or updated and fielded. Additional software development
and acquisition support programs of the Armament SEC include the
M777A1 Towed Artillery Digitization, America's Army " the official
game of the US Army, Multi-purpose Integrated Chemical Agent
Detector (MICAD), SPIDER Networked Munition, Excalibur, Precision
Guided Mortar Munitions (PGMM), and Intelligent Munitions System
(IMS). When systems are no longer in production, the Armament SEC
supplies Post Production Software Support (PPSS) services to
maintain the software and software baseline for the Army.
The Armament SEC was the first organization in the world to achieve
a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 rating for
systems engineering, software engineering, and acquisition
disciplines in February 2002. The achievement of CMMI Level 3
resulted in the highest customer satisfaction ratings ever achieved
by the Center. Currently, the Armament SEC is in the process of
preparing to conduct a CMMI Level 4/5 appraisal in the spring
2006.