From: pattis@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)
Subject: IBM & Air Traffic Control
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:25:23 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Dec12.002523.27592@beaver.cs.washington.edu> (raw)
In today's NYT business section, there was an article about the government
threatening to cancel a $3.8 billion contract with IBM to overhaul the
air traffic control system. It says
"Because of a software foul-up, the contract with the FAA has already
suffered an 18 month delay...The problems involve testing and integrating
software in what is called the initial sector suite system..."
This seems like a very large and embarasing screwup.
Anyone know more about the project. I thought the air traffic control stuff was
being done "mostly" in Ada; if not, anyone know what language was used. Even
better, anyone know what is "really" behind the delay.
Rich Pattis
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