From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!GMUVAX.GMU.EDU!ecragg From: ecragg@GMUVAX.GMU.EDU ("EDWARD CRAGG") Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Viewpoint on AJPO funding and budget cuts Message-ID: <9001131655.AA12335@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 13 Jan 90 15:50:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: >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. ............................................................ Edward E Cragg Bitnet: ECRAGG@GMUVAX Internet: ECRAGG@GMUVAX.GMU.EDU