As part of our relationship with the Information Systems Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center, we are currently involved in the support of the Defense Information Systems Agency / Joint Interoperability Engineering Organization / Center for Information Management in their work in institutionalizing reuse within the DoD community. In particular, we are members of both the reuse metrics team, responsible for defining and executing a measurement plan to assess reuse activity within the Defense Software Repository System (DSRS) and the pilot projects supported by the DSRS, and the Software Reuse Roadmap team, responsible for assessing the current state of reuse in government, industry and academia, and laying out a strategy for the DoD to best leverage its investment in research.
Eichmann is also currently the Director of Research and Development for the Repository Based Software Engineering (RBSE) program, a NASA supported reuse initiative, of which the AdaNET software repository is a part, and a member of the AIAA Software Reuse Standards Working Group, an effort to propose standards for repository interoperability protocols. RBSE is currently supporting Rockwell in a pilot project to reengineer the Space Shuttle flight analysis systems from legacy FORTRAN into an object-oriented implementation designed for reuse on other NASA/JSC shuttle systems.