karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg) (04/14/91)
From the SBA March 1991. US SBA, MC 6470, 409 Third St. SW Washington, DC 20416. Army: 60. Object Oriented Databases and Ada Real-Time applicatoins. DARPA: 208. Software tols which translate software from other languages into Ada. 209. Software tools which reengineer poorr ada systems into optimized ones. 210. Domain specific software architecture Ada reusable software assetss In an interesting note to the reader, the pre-solicitation announcement also reads: The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (P. L. 100-418) mandates the METRIC System as the preferred system of weights and measures for our Nation's commerce. More importantly, this law mandates conversion to the Metric System of the entire Federal procurement process by the end of Fiscal Year 1992. It's about time we got metric, but it fails to include the following (from AdaIC Form G36-0391, file name MANDAT90.HLP), although not all the SBIR announcements are DoD: Sec. 8092. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, after June 1, 1991, where cost effective, all Department of Defense software shall be written in the programming language Ada, in the absence of special exemption by an official designated by the Secretary of Defense. The bill was signed by the President on November 5, 1990, and is now Public Law 101-511. -- Karl --