Boeing's LIDS program--Any Info??

Boeing's LIDS program--Any Info??

[Robert B. Love]

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.

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?

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?


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Re: Boeing's LIDS program--Any Info??

[Jeff Carter]

"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"?

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Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Re: Boeing's LIDS program--Any Info??

[Robert B. Love]

In <38D7FEA4.6A25F823@acm.org> Jeff Carter wrote:
> "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.


Well I hope Boeing gets the blame and not the language.  Are there 
any "Lessions Learned" or other commentary that Boeing has made
public?  Did they have good requirements up front or was it a "design
as you go" style project where the gaps get filled in as you proceed?

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