Re: Viewpoint on AJPO funding and budget cuts

[billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )]

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.  [...] Let the 
> AJPO be a source (repository) of information; manage the Ada standard; 
> and help people/agencies/companies transition to Ada by providing 
> information and guidance, not by funding individual efforts.  
>
> 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???

   One of the major areas in which some additional $$$ would go a long way 
   for the entire Ada community would be having the Ada Software Repository 
   receive the funding necessary to get its components tested and certified.

   If the Navy would stop retiling the decks of shipboard spaces and the 
   floors of naval base facilities every time an officer decides s/he 
   doesn't like the color, stop paying Marines to sit around polishing 
   brass all day, etc., there would be enough money to buy ALS/N and a 
   new carrier battle group besides.  Arny is exactly right -- let the 
   Navy pay for ALS/N themselves!!!  


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu