General Announcement - Ada Evaluation Tool Merger Update

General Announcement - Ada Evaluation Tool Merger Update

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Subject: General Announcement - Ada Evaluation Tool Merger Update
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 11:26:47 EDT
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                    ADA EVALUATION TOOL MERGER UPDATE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO), acting for the US DoD, and the
Ministry of Defence of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Northern Ireland (UK MOD) have signed an agreement granting the
AJPO license to use and reproduce the technical information
contained in the Ada Evaluation System (AES).

The AJPO will now work toward merging the AES with the US Ada Compiler
Evaluation Capability (ACEC).  Details regarding the merger will be
forthcoming.

A copy of the agreement signed by the US and UK is provided below.

For more information, contact: Ada Information Clearinghouse, 
1/800-232-4211 or 1/703-685-1477.



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       ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF LICENSE OF Ada EVALUATION SYSTEM


     1.  Purpose.

         This document acknowledges the transfer of Ada Evaluation
System rights from the Ministry of Defence of the Government of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the
Department of Defense of the United States of America.


     2.  Background.

         The Department of Defense of the United States of America
(US DoD), under the auspices of the Ada Joint Program Office
(AJPO), has developed an Ada compiler performance and usability
test suite known as the Ada Compiler Evaluation Capability (ACEC). 
The Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland (UK MOD) has developed a suite of tests, known as
the Ada Evaluation System (AES), to examine Ada compilers and other
aspects of an Ada Programming Support Environment. An examination
of both ACEC and AES suites by the Department of Defense has shown
that there are certain user benefits to be gained through a merger
of the subject suites into a single suite.

         As the office responsible for the ACEC, the Ada Joint
Program Office desires to merge the ACEC and the AES for the
benefit of the US DoD, and ultimately, through wide-spread
distribution, for the benefit of the Ada user community as a whole,
including the UK MOD.  To that end, the AJPO desires to implement
an ACEC merger with the AES, and upon completion make this merged
suite available to anyone who requests it.  To accomplish this, the
merged suite will be categorized as "Approved for Public Release,
Distribution is Unlimited".  The AJPO will solely fund and manage
this effort.

     3.  License.

         In order to effect the subject merger, the UK MOD hereby
grants the US DoD a worldwide, nontransferable, irrevocable, non-
exclusive, royalty-free license to practice (make, use or transfer)
the Ada Evaluation System and unlimited use and reproduction rights
in its technical information.

G. Masters                         John P. Solomond
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For the Ministry of Defence        For the Department of Defense
of the Government of the           of the United States of America
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland

signed 19 June 1991                signed 17 June 1991
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            Date                                Date




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