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The CMMI® was developed in cooperation with the Department of Defense, Industry and the Software Engineering Institute, and has become the defacto standard for integrated process improvement across multiple disciplines within commercial, Department of Defense and government organizations. Although sponsored by the Department of Defense and NDIA, the CMMI® is used by commercial as well as government and industry organizations, and this conference will address all applications. The purpose of CMMI® is to provide for improvements in cost, schedule and overall quality of projects in engineering development by eliminating “stovepipe” maturity models and allowing organizations to integrate their process improvement and engineering development efforts, and strengthen the systems engineering component of all development programs. CMMI® has been shown to reduce costs, to implement internal process improvement, including appraisals (assessments & evaluations) and provide a common baseline and lexicon for process improvement.