Mission The SEI’s mission is to advance the technologies and practices needed
to acquire, develop, operate, and sustain software systems that are
innovative, affordable, trustworthy, and enduring.
Description The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a not-for-profit Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) at Carnegie Mellon University, specifically established by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to focus on software and cybersecurity.
As an FFRDC, the SEI fills voids where in-house and private sector research and development centers are unable to meet DoD core technology needs. For government and industry, the SEI is an objective, unbiased, honest broker that maintains a critical mass of top-caliber software and cyber professionals provides a central repository for information about software engineering and cybersecurity develops and maintains core competence in areas critical to the DoD serves as an intellectual crossroads and catalyst for change.
Software Engineering Institute has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 182 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Software Engineering Institute employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
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