Editing Software Engineering Institute (section)

==Authority==
The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute is a [[federally funded research and development center]] headquartered on the campus of [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]],  [[United States]]. The SEI also has offices in  [[Washington, DC]]; [[Arlington County, Virginia]]; and [[Los Angeles]], California. The SEI operates with major funding from the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]]. The SEI also works with industry and academia through research collaborations.<ref name=DoDFunding/>

On November 14, 1984, the U.S. Department of Defense elected Carnegie Mellon University as the host site of the Software Engineering Institute.<ref name=DoDFunding/>
The institute was founded with an initial allocation of $6 million, with another $97 million to be allocated in the subsequent five years. The SEI's contract with the Department of Defense is subject to review and renewal every five years.

SEI focuses on several technical directions: [[software engineering]], [[cybersecurity]], [[Software Assurance |assurance]], and [[DoD]] [[high-performance computing |critical component capabilities]].<ref>{{cite web
|title=2015 Year in Review
|page=4
|url= https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/documents/2342/2016_001_001_465447.pdf
|publisher=[[Software Engineering Institute]], [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
|year=2015}}</ref>