Re: Congress cutting budgets of SEI, IDA, MITRE

[aio!usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John Cobarruvias)]

In article <CBJryM.554@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
Aharonian) writes:
>From the August 9, 1993 issue of Electronic Engineering Times, page 22
>
>	Congress is poised to cut the budgets of Pentaon-funded research
>centers.  Both houses have recommended reductions in the $1.4 billion
>budgets of the 13 FFRDCs.  The Senate moved to reduce funding by 6
percent
>and impose a pay freeze to save another 6 percent.

[rest of the article explaining the above deleted]


>   Given that the software-related FFRDCs have shown no initiative in 
>raising and examining the issue critical to Ada's health and the
hypocrisy
>of its non-use inside the DoD, there will be some of us who loose no
sleep
>seeing the FFRDCs shrunk.  Much of the raw data I have been posting
(minus
>my obnoxious comments) should have been coming out of SEI, MITRE and IDA.

Greg, don't be an asswipe. "Raising and examinint the issue critical to
Ada's health etc etc" is probably the last thing the FFRDCs are supposed
to do anyway. Much of the raw data you have been posting (plus your
obnoxious comments) should NOT have been coming out of SEI MITRE and IDA.
They have better things to do. Maybe you should follow their example.

The above may seems like a personal gripe towards you, and it is, but when
you begin to attack other organizations like you are doing, especially
against one which I have had excellent relations with, then you should
expect comments like the above.

>
>   I have a suggestion for SEI management.  When you start laying off,
fire
>all the people involved with the suppression of the SEI report whose data
>undermines the rationale for the Ada Mandate, and whose data contradicts
and
>was ignored in SEI's followon substudy on Ada and C++.  Getting rid of
>intellectual dishonest people is a good way to downsize.
>-- 
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> Greg Aharonian                                     
srctran@world.std.com
> Source Translation & Optimization                           
617-489-3727
> P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178
>




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