This repository contains a computer-readable version (in LaTeX format) of one of the many reports on the U.S. Department of Defense’s struggle with software acquisition.
The report here, the 1987 Defense Science Board report (led by Fred Brooks, famous for Brooks’s Law), is available today from the DoD's DTIC website as a scanned PDF. Although the text is already OCR’d (which made it possible to convert), it was scanned from a poor quality original and as a result is both hard to read at times and very large to download.
So I took it upon myself to make a version that I could post on a Github.
Right now there is just the LaTeX source and the generated PDF itself. Later I might try to do an HTML conversion but for now I am happy with where it is at.
- Michael Pyne, Feb. 2020