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Tucker said, 

>Raytheon has been using Ada 95 for the Patriot upgrade since 1997.
>They used a Jovial-to-Ada translation tool to get started, though
>they aren't doing any more translation as far as I know.

An aquaintance of mine, who works at Raytheon, told me 
(about a year ago I think) that: 

1) The ground-control portion (radars and such) of the Patriot 
    system is written in Ada, but 
2) The onboard flight control portion has always remained in 
    Jovial. He also said that the company had proposed to 
    re-write that portion in Ada, but the Air Force did not see 
    any need to spend the money to do that. 

Perhaps Richard's information concerns portion 2. 

Bard Crawford