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From: Michael Levasseur <levass@gdesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?
Date: 1996/06/24
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dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>What has COTS to do with C++ and 4GL coding?

This is related to the DoD directive that was issued by
Secretary Perry about a year ago that stated that military
acquisitions were to use as much COTS content as possible.

This was followed by the Secretrary of the Navy putting
out a memo indicating that the Navy considered the COTS 
directive to superceed the Ada Manadate directive.

Secretary Perry at the time said that he would review the
two directives to see if they conflicted. He didn't instruct
the Sec of Navy that he was wrong.

If have copies of both memos at home. I'll try to locate both
memos and post them on the net.