Open Acquisition: Combining Open Source Software Development with System Acquisition Final Report Walt Scacchi Institute of Software Research University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 USA 949-824-4130, 949-824-1715 (fax) Wscacchi@ics.uci.edu June 2002 This report can be found on the Web at: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/Papers/DAU/OpenAcquisition.pdf The research described in this report was supported by the Defense Acquisition University through contract N487650-27803. No endorsement implied. Mark Ackerman at the University of Michigan, as well as Mark Bergman and Margaret Elliott at the UCI Institute for Software Research, are collaborators on the research described in this paper. 1