Re: Viewpoint on AJPO funding and budget cuts

[ecragg@GMUVAX.GMU.EDU ("EDWARD CRAGG")]

From wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bill Wolfe)   
> 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, . . . 
>
>    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???
> 

It is my understanding that the $7.87 million in the AJPO budget for 
the ALS/N came from the Navy in the sense that the Navy budget was 
reduced by that amount.  I understand that the congressional purpose was 
to assure that ALS/N monies would be used for ALS/N and not 
reprogrammed by the Navy elsewhere.  (If you examin the history of the 
program you will find a continuing pattern of the Navy using ALS/N to
justify both funding and suplemental funding from Congress, and upon
receiving the funding, reprogramming it elsewhere.)  AJPO is not 
subsidizing the ALS/N effort -- they are the funding source, and were
there no ALS/N, the AJPO budget would be reduced accordingly.


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