DOD-STD-2167A

Defense Systems Software Development
StatusCancelled 1994 / Legacy
Year startedFebruary 29, 1988 (1988-02-29)
OrganizationUnited States Department of Defense
Base standardsPreceded by
DOD-STD-2167
Related standardsDOD-STD-2168
Succeeded by

DOD-STD-2167A (Department of Defense Standard 2167A), titled "Defense Systems Software Development", was a United States defense standard, published on February 29, 1988, which updated the less well known DOD-STD-2167 published 4 June 1985. This document established "uniform requirements for the software development that are applicable throughout the system life cycle."[1] This revision was written to allow the contractor more flexibility[2] and was a significant reorganization and reduction of the previous revision; e.g.., where the previous revision prescribed pages of design and coding standards, this revision only gave one page of general requirements for the contractor's coding standards; while DOD-STD-2167 listed 11 quality factors to be addressed for each software component in the SRS, DOD-STD-2167A only tasked the contractor to address relevant quality factors in the SRS.[3] Like DOD-STD-2167, it was designed to be used with DOD-STD-2168, "Defense System Software Quality Program".

On December 5, 1994 it was superseded by MIL-STD-498, which merged DOD-STD-2167A, DOD-STD-7935A, and DOD-STD-2168 into a single document,[4] and addressed some vendor criticisms.

  1. ^ "DOD-STD-2167A, MILITARY STANDARD: DEFENSE SYSTEM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT]" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. 29 Feb 1988.
  2. ^ Paul V. Shebalin (Summer 1994). "Software Development Standards and the DoD Program Manager" (PDF). Acquisition Review Quarterly. Defense Acquisition University.
  3. ^ D. S. Maibor (1991). Christine Anderson (ed.). Aerospace Software Engineering (The DOD Life Cycle Model). p. 45. ISBN 9781600863905.
  4. ^ "MIL-STD-498, MILITARY STANDARD: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND DOCUMENTATION [SUPERSEDED BY IEEE/EIA 12207.0, IEEE/EIA 12207.1 AND IEEE/EIA 12207.2]" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. 5 Dec 1994.