karl@grebyn.COM (Karl A. Nyberg) (03/11/87)
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here's the beginning of the recent BAA for the STARS Foundation Ada Software. For complete text, see the Commerce Business Daily, Issue # PSA-9288, Wednesday, March 4, 1987, P. 2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Supply Officer, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC 20375-5000 A - FOUNDATION ADA SOFTWARE FOR RESEARCH IN VIRTUAL INTERFACES: BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA). The govt desires firm-fixed price R&D contrs, but reserves the right to negotiate a different type of contr. The DOD Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) Pgm in co-operation w/the Naval Research Lab (NRL) is soliciting proposals for the development of reusable Ada (DOD trademark) software modules with which common foundation area capabilities can be composed in a form suitable for follow-on research and experimentation in the development and application of the virtual func interfaces needed to foster and support a truly machine-independent applications software technology. The goal is provide Ada bldg block components for several foundation areas including, but not ltd to: Ada as a common command language, software design, description and analysis tools (including those necessary to support reliability and multilevel security properties), text processing, database mgmt systems, operating systems (including tailorable Ada run time support for embedded and trusted applications), planning and optimization algorithms, graphics, telecommunications and network protocols, or other (consistent w/STARS pgm objectives for virtual interface support and machine independent applications). ... The closing date for submission of proposals is 90 days after publ of this announcement; recepts after that date will not be evaluated. ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And yes, that is really the way it appeared - govt, contrs, func, bldg, ltd, mgmt - those are not typos! -- Karl --