* Revised List of non-Defense Ada Projects
@ 1993-02-04 17:37 enterpoop.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman
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From: enterpoop.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman @ 1993-02-04 17:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
Some Non-Defense Ada Applications
February 1993
sources: Commercial Ada Users Working Group (CAUWG),
AdaStrategies, Ada Anthology, published reports,
vendor newsletters, etc.,
summarized by
Michael B. Feldman
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-5253 (voice)
202-994-5296 (fax)
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
Here is a list of non-defense Ada projects of which I am aware.
Previous versions of this list were called "Non-Government"; this
one is called "Non-Defense". This is because the line between a
purely commercial project and a government one is increasingly
fuzzy, especially in Europe where the telecommunications industry
is quasi-governmental and governments often own stock in companies.
In the U.S., two very large government but non-defense Ada projects
are the FAA Advanced Automation system for air traffic control, and the
NASA Space Station Freedom software. The U.S. projects on the list below
are in addition to these two.
Any such list must have selection criteria. I prefer to focus
on actual, fielded applications, and therefore I have not
listed compilers, tools, reuse libraries, etc., of which there are
many coded in Ada. Software development tools are interesting, but
they are in a different category altogether from fielded systems.
The reader will note that many of these systems are in the aerospace
and telecommunications domains, both in the US and elsewhere.
Naturally this is not a coincidence; both domains require highly
reliable software, and many of the companies involved have built upon
their defense experience and chosen Ada for non-defense applications.
On the other hand, one can see that Ada is making inroads into
other industries, especially banking and securities. There are also
several "shrink-wrap" products for personal computers.
Readers are invited to correct or add entries and send them to me.
The CAUWG chair, Ben Brosgol, can be reached at brosgol@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
or (617) 270-0030; Ralph Crafts, the editor of Ada Strategies, a commercial
Ada-oriented newsletter, and Ada Anthology, a summary of newsletter articles,
can be reached at sst@mcimail.com or (304) 725-6542. The Ada Information
Clearinghouse also keeps track of projects like these; reach them
at adainfo@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu or (800) AdaIC11.
USA Beech Aircraft: many flight-control subsystems for Beechjet 400A
and Beech Starship I (business jets) (see Rockwell)
USA Boeing: 747-400 subsystem components of cockpit
displays, on-board maintenance systems, secondary
flight controls
USA Boeing: almost all new software for 777 project
USA Boneck Printing: job costing system, MS-DOS, Janus/Ada
USA Coulter: medical electronics, including hematology analysis
USA Design Aids: commercial frame-by-frame videotape
editing system, MS-DOS, Janus/Ada
USA Dimensional Media Systems: Doorway, hypertext
"information manager," MS-DOS, Meridian
USA Dowell-Schlumberger: oil exploration simulation software, DEC
USA General Electric/Weirton Steel: hot steel rolling
mill, multiple MicroVax-en, DEC Ada
USA Genesis Software, Inc.: complete bill paying system,
Wang VS, Alsys; ported easily to VAX
USA HP: hardware CAD system for internal use in chip development
USA LDS Hospital: medical decision support system,
MS-DOS, Alsys (for NASA, but appears to
be commercial-type application)
USA MAN Truck and Bus Company: multi-state payroll
system, MS-DOS, Janus/Ada (1982!)
USA Motorola: cellular phone switch testing system,
Alsys and TeleSoft.
USA PC-based programmer for embedded medical products.
USA Reuters: transaction processing for Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, interfaces to commercial DBMS
USA Rockwell: Fokker F100 Multi-Function Display System, Irvine Compilers
USA Rockwell: Advanced Railroad Electronic System (real-
time tracking and communications with trains using GPS)
USA Rockwell: Many system components for commercial aircraft control
USA Rollins Leasing (national leader in truck leasing
and vehicle management): integrated fuel management
system, MS-DOS, Janus/Ada.
USA Shell Oil: geophysical seismic processing system (multiple targets)
USA Smiths (formerly Lear-Sigler): large embedded flight program for
Boeing 737 aircraft, XD-Ada.
USA Trace Instruments: automatic test equipment for printed circuit boards
USA Wells-Fargo Investment Advisors (WFNIA): real-time
investment database system, DEC/VAX.
Australia CSA: ground stations for an L-Band car-to-satellite telephone
system in Australia. Multiple sites, many processors linked in
real-time; Sun SPARC, Sun SPARCengine; SunAda, VADSWorks.
Canada Canadian Space Agency: satellite payload control system
Canada Eyepoint, Inc.: Tunis Operating System in Ada
Europe European Space Agency: ground station operator environment;
nearly all space station software
Finland Nokia Information Systems: online banking systems,
uses Ada as its standard
programming language.
France CMG: turnkey signal processing, industrial automation.
France Euristic Systems: expert system to manage continuous
data acquisition, ApolloDomain network, Alsys.
France GEC Alsthom: fully-committed to Ada for railroad
subsystems including French high-speed train (TGV)
network and Channel Tunnel.
France SEMA Group: software to control nuclear power plant.
France Strategies: CADWIN, PC-based CAD/CAM product, MS-DOS, Alsys.
France SYSECA: new French air-traffic control system
France Thomson-CSF: Air Traffic Control systems in
Copenhagen, Kenya, Pakistan, simulators in
Switzerland, Ireland, more ATC systems coming.
France TOTAL (oil company): computer-assisted extraction of
oil products, bare 68020, Alsys.
Germany dSpace: tools to control fast systems such as hard
disks, vehicle suspensions, robots, Alsys.
Germany Eurocontrol: new Europe-wide air traffic control system
Holland Royal Dutch Post and Telecom: PC-based system for
control and monitoring of public telecommunication
service, MS-DOS, Alsys.
Japan Nippon Telephone and Telegraph: videotex
communication system, mobile communication system,
satellite communication system, database management
system; all commercially available.
Norway Norwegian Telecom: X.400 P7 implementation
Norway TeleServe: fault-tolerant (of class highly-available),
real-time SQL servers, for telecommunications applications.
TeleSoft Ada.
Spain CESEL: radar and flight plan processing for Spanish air-traffic
control centers
Spain Teice Control, SA: control system for 40 buildings
in industrial area of Madrid Airport (A/C, power
supply, fire: detection, etc.)
Sweden ESAB: robotic welding stations for use in flexible
manufacturing systems, TeleSoft, Vax and 680x0
Sweden SattControl: warehouse systems
Sweden Swedish Telecom: system for supervision of private-branch
telephone exchanges (PBX's)
Sweden Volvo: materials handling system (robotic parts
carts), TeleSoft.
Sweden Color display element of hospital building control
and monitoring system: 1600 I/O channels, 200
dynamic color displays, lots of tasking, Meridian.
Sweden SATT Control AB: warehouse systems
Sweden Swedish Telecom: telephone switch controller (PABX), VAX.
Switzerland
LinkVest: real-time stock exchange management system, VAX
Switzerland
Union Bank: Operations Control System to manage distributed Vax-en.
UK Avantek: Access Mac (lets MS DOS disk drives read,
write, format Macintosh disks), Janus/Ada.
UK CORAL: DACMAN, simulation and data monitoring system
for auto engines, MS-DOS, Alsys, Meridian.
UK Cray Systems Space Division: real-time training simulator for
satellite controllers
UK GeoMatrix: PC demographics research system, MS-DOS, Alsys.
UK Orbitel Mobile Communications: cellular phone base station, Alsys.
UK Process Plant and Chemicals: chemical process
control systems, MS-DOS, Alsys.
UK Univ. of Southampton, modeling of deep-sea
ecosystem, IBM 3090, Alsys.
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* Re: Revised List of non-Defense Ada Projects
@ 1993-02-04 23:11 Gregory Aharonian
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From: Gregory Aharonian @ 1993-02-04 23:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
This paucity of non-government Ada projects only reinforces the
message that Ada is very, very slowly making inroads into the
non-Mandated world. I am sure many inside the DoD celebrate this
list as a measure of success, which further delays any meaningful
reform of Ada software policies.
Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization
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* Re: Revised List of non-Defense Ada Projects
@ 1993-02-05 4:00 enterpoop.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!darwin.sura.n
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From: enterpoop.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!darwin.sura.n @ 1993-02-05 4:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <SRCTRAN.93Feb4181120@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
Aharonian) writes:
> This paucity of non-government Ada projects only reinforces the
>message that Ada is very, very slowly making inroads into the
>non-Mandated world. I am sure many inside the DoD celebrate this
>list as a measure of success, which further delays any meaningful
>reform of Ada software policies.
>
Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch.
I have no idea whether the list is exhaustive. Neither do you.
It contains _a_ list of those projects of which I am aware. Can
you make a list of all the projects in other languages? Of course
not! Most companies would think it utterly uninteresting (or
maybe proprietary) what language they used. Only language evangelists
give a sh*t anyway (I can say that - I are one.)
Mike Feldman
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Michael B. Feldman
co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052 USA
(202) 994-5253 (voice)
(202) 994-5296 (fax)
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet)
"Americans want the fruits of patience -- and they want them now."
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* Re: Revised List of non-Defense Ada Projects
@ 1993-02-05 18:48 David Emery
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From: David Emery @ 1993-02-05 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
The interesting thing about the non-Defense Products list is that
many, if not most of them are high reliability projects. This is true
of the Boeing 777 and the rest of the avionics software, as well as
the banking and financial systems. If Ada were to be used on a subset
of all possible software systems, I'm happy to see it used on *these*
kinds of systems.
dave
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* Re: Revised List of non-Defense Ada Projects
@ 1993-02-06 4:41 Gregory Aharonian
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From: Gregory Aharonian @ 1993-02-06 4:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
>> This paucity of non-government Ada projects only reinforces the
>>message that Ada is very, very slowly making inroads into the
>>non-Mandated world. I am sure many inside the DoD celebrate this
>>list as a measure of success, which further delays any meaningful
>>reform of Ada software policies.
>>
>Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch.
>
>I have no idea whether the list is exhaustive. Neither do you.
>It contains _a_ list of those projects of which I am aware. Can
>you make a list of all the projects in other languages? Of course not!
Actually Mike, for far less money than was wasted on the Mosemann
studies, I could make such a list of commercial projects by company,
language and year (which allow the DoD to accurately measure the rate
of Ada assimilation in the non-mandate world). Since I have enough
information about government and university such efforts (or at least
enough raw data to safely statistically extrapolate ( :-) ), I suppose
I could handle the commercial world.
By the way, is "kvetch" Yiddish for government waste?
Greg Aharonian
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Source Translation & Optimiztion
P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178
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