Corporate Profile for The Software Productivity Consortium, updated July 23, 1999.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0- Published Update: July 23, 1999 Company Name: The Software Productivity Consortium Address: 2214 Rock Hill Rd., Herndon VA 20170 Main Telephone Number: 703/742-8877 Internet Home Page Address (URL): www.software.org Chief Executive Officer: Werner Schaer Public Relations Contact: Greg Friedmann Business number: 703/742-7158 Industry: software & systems engineering Company Description: Founded in 1985, the Software Productivity Consortium is a nonprofit initiative of more than 60 companies, government agencies, and universities, focused on helping its members and customers to significantly improve the development of complex software systems. Current Consortium members include AT&T, Boeing, JP Morgan, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. , Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. , Rockwell, TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc , UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, Temps Universel Coordonné) The international time standard (formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT). Zero hours UTC is midnight in Greenwich, England, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. , Xerox, and twenty other leading companies, as well at 20 government agencies and nine universities. The Consortium's member-driven program supports rapid improvement of the processes used to develop large information systems, pursuant to the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM SEI CMM Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model ), ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 and 12200 standards, and other commercial and military quality frameworks. The Consortium also helps its members apply leading-edge systems and software engineering tools and methods, such as object-oriented and commercial off-the- shelf (COTS) technologies. Consortium processes and methods also help members to successfully merge the systems and software engineering disciplines into one cohesive process. Such processes are increasingly adopted by Consortium members as organizational standards for systems and software development. The Consortium's aggressive technology adoption programs and training and consulting services help ensure that members and customers receive maximum benefits from their participation. Consortium training and consulting services are available on the GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. Schedule (GS-35F-5365H). |
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