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Implementation of Recommended Strategy for Investment in ADA
Implementation of Recommended Strategy for Investment in ADA
Pages 62-68
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for warfighting systems; stimulating Ada education and curriculum development; and providing support for a centralized source of Ada information and expertise within DOD. The chapter concludes by providing a detailed plan and funding breakdown for the recommended investments in Ada.
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It is not suggested that such an organization directly support the development of new Ada compilers. Rather, it is emphasized that a centralized organization is necessary to provide expertise, resource directories (such as the World Wide Web site supported by the Ada Joint Program Office)
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Although DOD is no longer a dominant player in the software market, it is still a large customer, and arguably the primary customer for critical systems. Any major customer can establish incentives to motivate its suppliers to support a preferred standard; in order for DOD to play this role for its critical warfighting systems, it must emphasize the importance of providing support for Ada compilers and tools, and for Ada APIs for warfighting software applications.
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The Ada support requirements recommended above apply only to hardware and software vendors choosing to support such systems. Examples of Ada tools that support critical warfighting software engineering include Ada-oriented tools for real-time and fault-tolerant software; tools for software reliability, availability, survivability, security, and safety assurance; tools to facilitate effective use of Ada 95's new, object-oriented, real-time, and distributed-system capabilities for warfighting systems; and Ada-oriented tools for special warfighting applications domains (e.g., real-time distributed avionics systems test, debugging, and performance tuning)
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, there are fewer obstacles to the use of Ada as a vehicle for research in programming languages and programming support tools. In keeping with the competitive strategy recommended in earlier chapters, this investment package should place a high priority on Ada-based research and curriculum development for software needs in warfighting application domains (e.g., for real-time, high-assurance software)
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As stated above, it is important to emphasize that these are not one-time investments, but rather continuing investments to maintain and enhance the effectiveness of Ada for DOD. It is also important to recognize that this $15 million annual DOD investment is designed to expedite desired capabilities by leveraging the existing $200 million annual Ada market.
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NOTES 1. Common object request broker architecture interface definition language.
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