SEIC News Briefs, W/E May 30, 1997

SEIC News Briefs, W/E May 30, 1997

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Software Engineering News Briefs
Week Ending:  May 30, 1997

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DDC-I WINS PHASE III COMANCHE CONTRACT
Topic:  Ada

DDC-I, a supplier of highly optimized Ada development systems for embedded 
real-time applications, has recently won a multi-million dollar contract 
with the Boeing Defense & Space Group's Helicopters Division and United 
Technologies' Sikorsky Aircraft to provide the Ada software development 
environment for Phase III of the RAH-66 Comanche armed reconnaissance 
helicopter.

DDC-I's contract provides for the development of an Ada compilation 
system based upon the "DACS-PC Windows NT to Pentium Cross Compiler 
System."

For more information, contact:  

Jennifer C. Sanchez
DDC-I, Inc.,
400 N. 5th St. 
Phoenix, AZ  85004
t. 602/275-7172
f. 602/252-6054
http://www.ddci.com

SOURCE:  DDC-I News Press Release:  May 21, 1997.

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DII COE LISTSERV UP AND RUNNING
Topic:  DII COE

The DISA Computer Systems Engineering Information Clearinghouse (CSEIC) 
has developed a DII COE Listserv.  The DII COE Listserv provides an 
unmoderated forum for COE developers and users to disseminate information, 
share ideas and lessons learned, collaborate, and post questions and 
answers.
  
Messages may be received through the user's e-mail reader, or, for those 
who do not wish to subscribe to the listserv, messages may be viewed 
through an organized archive on the CSEIC WWW site at:  

<http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/cseic/listserv/maillist.html>.
    
To subscribe to the DII COE Listserv, send a message to:    
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In the body of the message, write:    
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No signatures please. 

SOURCE:  CSEIC

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ADA 95 AND THE AGE OF INTEROPERABILITY
Topic: Ada, Reuse

In the June 1997 edition of JOOP, Richard Riehle of AdaWorks Software 
Engineering, examines the advantages of using Ada 95 in software 
re-engineering efforts, and concludes:

"Ada is a language designed to maximize interoperability with other 
languages.  In the fast changing world of software, such interoperability 
is becoming an essential language feature.  This is true for both simple 
code reuse and for interfacing to existing code during legacy code 
re-engineering.  Probably no other contemporary language design has taken 
as much care in designing its facilities for interoperability as the 1995 
Ada standard."

SOURCE:  Riehle, Richard, "The age of interoperability," JOOP, June 1997, 
v10, n3, pp 56-59.

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