From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,707ffbf6ec9d1855 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Steve Whalen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance Date: 23 Dec 2005 17:12:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1135386734.859963.112280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <20051222102521644-0600@news.airmail.net> <20051222152554655-0600@news.airmail.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.238.129.35 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1135386740 1199 127.0.0.1 (24 Dec 2005 01:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:12:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.238.129.35; posting-account=GBMmzA0AAABrZ0dHOASa3b2Cdf-RliH9 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6999 Date: 2005-12-23T17:12:14-08:00 List-Id: I'd like to respectfully suggest to those who are going to try to set this record straight that you include these people in your correspondence: Senator John Warner of Virginia Senator Carl Levin of Michigan Senator John McCain of Arizona Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut All of the above Senators are members of the Senate Armed Services Committee which has "oversight" of the U.S. military, and their web sites can be found at: http://armed-services.senate.gov/ Since our Senators serve 6 year terms, they are somewhat more insulated from the immediate pressures of daily politics and vendor pressures (but only compared our House of Representatives ).... They are the people who can get such misrepresentations as were made by the Air Force civilian leadership investigated and corrected. One thing that might be helpful to include in any correspondence to anyone in a position to help, would be a list of questions they could ask which would help them to see that the Air Force's civilian leadership's statements are on their face, incredibly nonsensical to anyone who knows anything about programming or managing large projects. Questions like: Were the specifications from which the Ada programming was to be done complete before coding began? Has anyone independent of the vendor or project management made an assessment of why the project has gone so wrong? How is it than many of the largest and most complex project have been successfully programmed in Ada? etc. Steve