CSEIC News Briefs, W/E July 18, 1997

CSEIC News Briefs, W/E July 18, 1997

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Computer Systems Engineering News Briefs
Week Ending:  July 18, 1997

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GAUSS LEAVING DISA, SALISBURY STEPPING IN
Topic:  DII, COE

Rear Adm. John Gauss will step down as the Defense Information Systems 
Agency (DISA) deputy director for engineering and interoperability (JIEO)
by the end of July 1997.  Air Force Brig. Gen. Gary Salisbury will 
replace Gauss.  Salisbury last worked at the U.S. Transportation Command 
at Scott AFB, IL, as director of the Joint Transportation Corporate 
Information Management Center.

DISA established the Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common 
Operating Environment (COE) on Gauss' watch.  The goal of the DII COE is 
to ensure DOD systems can work across all DOD organizations.

Gauss will take a temporary duty assignment in the Navy's Office of the 
Director of Space and Electronic Warfare pending a permanent posting.

SOURCE:  Slabodkin, Gregory, "Gauss to leave DISA after a 3-year duty 
tour," Government Computer News, July 14, 1997, v16, n19, p3,  
<http://www.gcn.com>.

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RATIONAL VALIDATES ADA 95 VERSIONS OF RATIONAL APEX
FROM PRESS RELEASE
Topic:  Ada, Reuse

Rational Software Corporation recently announced that it has successfully 
validated six variants of Rational Apex, an integrated Ada 95 programming 
environment, against the formal Ada 95 validation test suite (version 2.0.1).

Rational Apex now supports all of the Ada 95 features specified in the 
current validation test suite as well as several of the major optional 
annexes. The forthcoming Rational Apex 2.4 release incorporates this new 
level of Ada 95 support.

Rational Apex Ada 95/83 includes the validated Ada compiler, but offers 
additional capabilities for developing and managing large, complex, and 
long-lived software systems, and for supporting teams of software 
developers. 

Rational Apex includes Ada-specific source-code editing, navigation, and 
browsing; code-rule checking; language-sensitive source-code debugging; 
optimal recompilation technology; an extensive set of capabilities; tools 
for managing parallel developments by distributed teams; and tools to 
reduce errors.

Rational Apex Ada 95/83 has been validated on Digital AXP Digital UNIX, 
SPARC Solaris, SPARC SunOS, HP 9000 700/800 HP-UX, IBM RS/6000 AIX, and 
Silicon Graphics IRIX workstations. The validated version 2.4 release of 
Rational Apex Ada 95/83 will be available to customers in July 1997. 

For more information contact:

Rational Software Corporation 
2800 San Tomas Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951 
T. (408) 496-3600 or (800) 728-1212, F. (408) 496-3636
mailto:info@rational.com, http://www.rational.com

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DMS MESSAGING PRODUCTS PASS MUSTER IN TEST RUN
Topic:  DII

The DOD last month conducted a dry run of the first wave of DMS 1.0 
messaging products at nine military sites around the world, in initial 
operational testing and evaluation of the Defense Message System (DMS).

Despite some IOT&E problems, DISA reported that overall performance 
was high.  "This dry run yielded exactly the results for which it was 
designed," DISA stated.  "It identified the kinds of problems that can 
only be found in a live, operational environment."

Planning is underway for the next operational test in August, followed by 
a Major Automated Information Systems Review Committee hearing in 
September before full deployment of the global e-mail system.

SOURCE:  Jackson, William, "DMS messaging products pass muster in test 
run," Government Computer News, July 14, 1997, v16, n19, p8, 
<http://www.gcn.com/>.

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THREE NEW ADA SUCCESS STORIES AVAILABLE ON WWW
Topic:  Ada

The Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC) has recently added three new Ada 
success stories to its Web site: <http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC>.  
The success stories are:  1. Ada Diversifies Westinghouse's Czech Nuclear 
Shutdown System; 2. Weirton Steel Hot Mill Evolving to Ada 95 on PCs; 3. 
CEMDAS - Ada for a new Air Pollution Monitoring System.

The new success stories, along with many other documented Ada successes, 
can be found at: 
<http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/projects/index.shtml#successes>.  

SOURCE:  AdaIC

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