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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!grebyn.com!karl From: karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Reserve Demobilization System Built Around Reused Ada Code Message-ID: <9105271627.AA29654@grebyn.com> Date: 27 May 91 16:27:17 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: >From Government Computer News, May 13, 1991, p. 63. The theory that Ada programming will get chaper as the Defense Department cashes in on the language's potential for reuse apparently has proved true for at least one Army system. Lt. Gen Jerome Hilmes, director of information systems for command, control, communications and computers, said Army programmers were able to design a 900,000-line demobilization system in 30 days for about $500,000. The quick programming turnaround was possible because about 800,000 lines of the Ada code were borrowed from previously designed systems, he said. The Army will use the new system as it deactivates more than 200,000 reservists called up to support the Persian Gulf war. The system, which automates the Army's standard discharge for for the first time, runs on AT&T Co. 3B2 minicomputers at seven locations. Hilmes said the system will reduce by a factor of two the time it takes to send a reservist back to civilian life. It was designed as part of the Army's continuing Installation Support Module program. Under ISM, the Army has standardized about eight servicewide functions performed at Army bases worldwide. So far, ISM officials "overall are getting about 56 percent reuse of the code they generate", he said. Hilmes spoke at a recent Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association budget symposium in Arlington, VA.