From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9f90c1cca5c28a02 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeff Carter Subject: Re: Boeing's LIDS program--Any Info?? Date: 2000/03/22 Message-ID: <38D7FEA4.6A25F823@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 600632783 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <89A59793797AAC7E.4AC67878C023CC71.CB8BAB246AAFDE6F@lp.airnews.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 953683323 63.10.52.115 (Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:02:03 PST) Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jrcarter@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:02:03 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Robert B. Love" wrote: > > Reading a back issue of Space News (Feb 28 2000) there is an article > with the headline "Boeing Delay Could Postpone NMD Deployment > Decision". It goes on to say that a software program called Lead > Systems Integrator Distributed Systems (LIDS) is very late and it > is to perform the simulations that would be the basis for some > deployment decisions. It's called LSI, and is completely a integration contract. > > I'm curious about the LIDS software. Written in Ada? Other > language? Size estimates? Real time i/f with hardware? Is the > software itself distributed? Is this using HLA? Number of engineers > and which Boeing center is working it? The software is largely in Ada, mostly Ada 83 being transitioned to Ada 95. The part I'm familiar with is distributed real-time simulation SW. It doesn't use HLA, but will become HLA-compatible at some point. The work is being done in Huntsville, Alabama. > > PS-I'm not looking for a debate on missile defense. There are > plenty of groups for that. I'm just wondering about the size of > this software project and has software ever effected _national_ > policy before? "effected"--do you mean "affected"? -- Jeff Carter "English bed-wetting types." Monty Python & the Holy Grail