Re: Viewpoint on AJPO funding and budget cuts

[schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)]

In article <7627@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>From arny@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (arny.b.engelson):
>> I just read an article in Government Computer News that really bothered me.
>> [...] out of $11.2 million, $7.87 million is allotted to the ALS/N effort.
>> [...] I believe the AJPO should be concentrating the bulk of its efforts 
>> (and $$$) on more generally useful jobs, such as several of those Solomond
>> listed as new plans (metrics standards, style guide, compiler evaluation, 
>> and maintaining a project database), and of course Ada 9X.  [...] 
>>
>> What do you think?
>
>   I think AJPO should concentrate ALL of its efforts on projects of
>   *general* interest to the Ada community... why does the Navy deserve
>   any such massive subsidy, or in fact any subsidy at all???
>
>   [...]
>   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu

Bill and Arny  (and others) - 

I'll try to check this out, but I seem to recall, that in effect, the Navy
is paying for ALS/N.  I believe that this money originally came out of the
Navy's budget.  I vaguely remember that Congress took the ALS/N project away
from the Navy, including all funding an gave to AJPO a couple of years ago.
The Navy may still be paying the tab on ALS/N, just sending it to AJPO.  The
fact that AJPO's projected budget is $11.2 million doesn't indicate where
that money is coming from initially.  You can't always tell from the program
element number or budget line item number either.  The funding may very well
been transferred from another line prior to submission to Congress by the
President.  This was not unheard of when I was doing budget planning for
Navy C2 systems in the Pentagon (I left there about a year ago).

Does anyone out there have the full details/history of ALS/N funding?

Jeff Schweiger


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