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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,888b7b8e9f905aec,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!atl-c03.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4ZZue.12291$eM6.11698@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:23:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.22.149 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1119644608 209.165.22.149 (Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:23:28 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:23:28 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11628 Date: 2005-06-24T20:23:28+00:00 List-Id: In doing some research into other things, I bumped into the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). This appears to be a relatively new initiative by the DoD and from what I can gather, they seem to want to open it up to some extent to commercial applications. Given that its all pretty new stuff, it looks like an opportunity for Ada to be a player in an emerging market - or at least a big DoD project. Does anybody know anything about the programming language(s) being used to develop versions of this radio? It looks like it is intended to have some sort of underlying OS and an API and then "radio apps" can be written to go on top of this and reconfigure the unit to different uses. Google turns up lots of stuff, but most of what I can find is not of a "Tutorial" nature. (Lots of stuff written in government-programese that talks about how wonderful its going to be one day.) It really does look like an opportunity for Ada if it hasn't already been locked up in some other language because of the possibility of writing numerous application programs for something relatively new in the world. Does anybody know much about this? MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton ======================================================================