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SERC Updates – June 2025

Jun 30, 2025

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to present this special edition of the SERC Updates announcing the redesigned SERC website. This enhanced resource offers refined mapping of our research, improved search functions, a sleeker design, and more. See below for direct links to some of the most notable new pages.

Our research highlights this edition include five reports from the AIRC Innovation Projects initiative. We are also excited to announce upcoming events this fall, featuring the AI4SE & SE4AI Research and Application Workshop on September 17-18 and the SERC Research Review and SERC Doctoral Student Forum on November 19-20. Registration for both events will open soon!

Sincerely,
Dinesh Verma
Executive Director

News

Research Publications

Explore SERC research grouped into four focus areas: Digital and Data-Driven Systems, Trusted Systems, Enterprises and System-of-Systems, and Human Capital Development.

The People of SERC

See new bio pages for members of the SERC leadership team, the SERC Advisory Board, and the SERC Research Council, featuring guiding lights like Dr. Michael Orosz of the University of Southern California.

Resources and Partners

Bookmark the resources and partners page as a hub for links leading to the Digital Engineering Body of Knowledge (DEBoK) and other tools, as well as to notable partners such as INCOSE and the NDIA.

Search Our Site

The new search function incorporates hits from AIRC research alongside the  SERC archives and enables various ways of sorting keyword results by content type, relevancy and year.

Research Highlights

Functional Information Retrieval for Dynamic Organizational Use

This AIRC Innovation Project from a team at Georgetown led by Dr. Lisa Singh developed a document retrieval system that leverages large language models to more intuitively answer user questions.

AI-based DPCAP FAR/DFARS Change Support Tool (Stevens)

Dr. Jose Ramirez-Marquez led a Stevens Institute of Technology team to create a natural language processing tool for the Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy (DPCAP) Contract Policy (CP) Directorate.

AI-based DPCAP FAR/DFARS Change Support Tool (Virginia Tech)

Dr. Naren Ramakrishnan and Virginia Tech colleagues produced another DPCAP study of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) change process.

Data Management of Intellectual Property License Rights for the DoD

A George Mason University team led by Mr. Benjamin McMartin examined data structuring, cleansing, tagging, ontologies, taxonomies, natural language processing and AI models in optimizing data management.

Identifying Novel Ways to Incentivize Industry in Defense Acquisition

Dr. Jerry McGinn and George Mason colleagues explored current and emerging Department of Defense models for industry engagement and novel ways to incentive industry throughout the acquisition process.

Events

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