Re: How should DoD further Ada education?

[brs@cci632.cci.com (Brian Scherer)]

In article <2289@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (LCDR Jeff Schweiger) writes:
>This is primarily geared to the Ada educators on the net, but comments from all 
>are welcome.
>
>The following questions have been discussed on the net in the past, but I have
>a short notice opportunity to include them in a study tasked by OSD.  I 
>appreciate any responses offered.
>
>1.  What role should DoD play in expanding software engineering education,
>using Ada as the implementation language?
>
>2.  How best should DoD carry out this role?
>	(ie., financial support for faculty, course development, hardware,
>	 software, etc. or more direct course development support)
>
>3.  How do we expand the number of Ada-literate people coming out of the
>universities?
>
>4.  How do we expand the use of Ada in information systems?
>
>5.  What can or should DoD do in conjunction with industry to further Ada usage?
>
>LCDR Jeff Schweiger
>Department of Computer Science
>Naval Postgraduate School
>Monterey, CA  93933-5000
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