• States conditions of recommended DoD Ada policy

  - Establishes principles for language choice

• Reinforces preference for COTS, NDI, and 4GL solutions when appropriate

• Establishes policy on software best practices

  - Tradeoff and business-case analysis

  - Product-line frameworks, open architectures

  - Process maturity and metrics-based improvement

• Establishes Software Engineering Plan Review process

• Exempts research and technology programs (6.1, 6.2, 6.3)

  - Study recommends transition planning for 6.3 software