Re: Joint Strike Fighter

[dirk@midgard.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)]

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In article <3BDCE159.39F6D422@adaworks.com>,
Richard Riehle  <richard@adaworks.com> wrote:
>Now that LMCO has been awarded the contract for
>JSF, does anyone know if the original plan to do the
>software in Ada remains unchanged?

Check out the recent news at http://www.ghs.com/news/211031l.html.

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Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY(tm) Selected As Operating System For
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

Green Hills to Provide Operating System and Development Environment for
Largest Military Procurement in History 

Santa Barbara, CA, October 31, 2001 -- Green Hills Software, Inc.,
today announced that Lockheed Martin will be using Green Hills'
INTEGRITY(tm) real-time operating system (RTOS) and AdaMULTI� 2000
software development tools to develop software for its Joint Strike
Fighter (JSF) aircraft. Lockheed Martin's design for the JSF was
selected by the Department of Defense (DoD) in a $200 billion award,
the largest in US DoD history. Avionics software developed by Lockheed
Martin will run on airborne PowerPC processors operating under the
INTEGRITY RTOS.
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And a bit further:

[start quote:]
Carbone continues, "The INTEGRITY RTOS, together with Green Hills'
AdaMULTI IDE, and Ada 95/C/C++ compilers provides a complete
single-vendor RTOS and development solution for developing real-time
mission and safety-critical software systems capable of meeting the
security and safety standards of ISO/IEC 15408 (Common Criteria) and
RTCA DO-178B.
[end quote]

So, at the very least, use of Ada is still possible...

Dirk (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for Ada-Belgium e-mail)

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