  This paper discusses a PhD research project testing the hypothesis that using
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDG) as explicit inputs to
drive the Software Requirements Engineering process will result in requirements
with improved sustainability benefits. The research has adopted the Design
Science Research Method (DSRM) [21] to test a process named SDG Assessment for
Requirements Elicitation (SDGARE). Three DSRM cycles are being used to test the
hypothesis in safety-critical, highprecision, software-intensive systems in
aerospace and healthcare. Initial results from the first two DSRM cycles
support the hypothesis. However, these cycles are in a plan-driven (waterfall)
development context and future research agenda would be a similar application
in an Agile development context.
