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This article presents the results of one study to measure the degree to which best practice adoption is used in existing defense acquisitions. Achieving CMMI Level 5 Improvements with MBASE and the CeBASE Method When the spiral model and MBASE are combined with the Experience Factory, the result is the unified Center for Empirically Based Software Engineering method. To protect against cyberattacks, the DoD needs secure information management systems for increasingly sensitive shared data, while also protecting critical infrastructures. What is Software Quality Assurance? This article paints the entire picture of software quality assurance, including safety, reliability, independent verification and validation, and metrics. Surviving the Top 10 Challenges of Software Test Automation This article examines trouble spots in capture/playback test automation tools in an effort to mitigate the risks of tool abandonment. Readers learn how to better apply measures or metrics to reliably depict the assurance associated with a specific hardware and software architecture. These workshops recommend a number of steps to aid in Department of Defense acquisitions. 3 8 16 25 33 34 35 D e p a r D e p a r t m e n t s t m e n t s BackTalk CrossTalk Article Submissions: We welcome articles of interest to the defense software community.Articles must be approved by the CROSSTALK editorial board prior to publication. Please follow the Author Guidelines, available at www.stsc.hill.af.mil/ crosstalk/xtlkguid.pdf. CROSSTALK does not pay for submissions. Articles published in CROSSTALK remain the property of the authors and may be submitted to other publications. Reprints and Permissions: Requests for reprints must be requested from the author or the copyright holder. Please coordinate your request with CROSSTALK. Defense. Contents of CROSSTALK are not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the government, the Department of Defense, or the Software Technology Support Center. All product names referenced in this issue are trademarks of their companies. Coming Events: We often list conferences, seminars, symposiums , etc. that are of interest to our readers.There is no fee for this service, but we must receive the information at least 90 days before registration. Send an announcement to the CROSSTALK Editorial Department. Back Issues Available: The STSC sometimes has extra copies of back issues of CROSSTALK available free of charge. Air Force to help Air Force software organizations identify, evaluate, and adopt technologies to improve the quality of their software products, efficiency in producing them, …