Unknown Government Training ?

[AMXMC-SEL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Mark Oestmann)]

Ben Casado writes,
>      Perhaps you were involved with the government for a few years and 
> not that much was being done for the sake of training personnel in the Ada 
> language, but I worked with the government for two years and received an 
> education and training in Ada that made me very marketable in private 
> industry.  In my first year with the government I was send to Texas to get  
> trained in Ada and Software Engineering.  After that year I was transferred   
> to the Communications and Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth N.J. to continue 
> my training.  There I developed a wide variety of projects in Ada, and also 
> received an educational package that helped me obtained a masters in Software 
> Engineering at Monmouth College.  
>      The department of the army, more in particular AST at CECOM Ft. Monmouth
> N.J., is doing serious training in Ada and Software Engineering and is 
> investing a lot of money to get their personnel trained.   Perhaps you should 
> do a little research and learn about what is been done by this organization.
> I am speaking in defense of the department of the army, and I am sure that the
> others branches of the DOD are investing as well.  

It appears that our organization needs to be made a little more visible.
The School of Engineering and Logistics located at Red  River Army Depot
in Texarkana, Texas trains civilian engineers and logisticians for the Army
Material Command (AMC) and other government agencies.  Software Engineering
is one of the six engineering programs taught at the school.  The Software
Engineering program is in its third year of existence.  The program of 
instruction is one year in length and Ada is the core language of the
program.  Each student brought into the program must have a Bachelor's
degree in engineering.  The AMC software engineers also have a second year
of training and work at Monmouth College and CECOM, Ft. Monmouth, NJ.
The second year of training incidentally leads to a Master's degree in 
Software Engineering. 
Ada is also taught in the other five engineering programs.

Mark Oestmann
School of Engineering and Logistics
Red River Army Depot
Texarkana, TX  75507-5000

214/334-3335
AMXMC-SEL@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL

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