From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 10 Aug 93 14:23:09 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Congress cutting budgets of SEI, IDA, MITRE Message-ID: List-Id: >>From the August 9, 1993 issue of Electronic Engineering Times, page 22 Congress is poised to cut the budgets of Pentaon-funded research centers. Both houses have recommended reductions in the $1.4 billion budgets of the 13 FFRDCs. The Senate moved to reduce funding by 6 percent and impose a pay freeze to save another 6 percent. Senators were said to feel an "increasing frustration that these guy's budgets were going up when everybody else's was going down". Industry opposition to diversication of FFRDCs focuses on what critics see as their expansion into professional and technical services. Major software FFRDCs targeted for budget cuts include MITRE, IDA, and the SEI. Officials from those organizations said only that budget cuts would result in additional layoffs "Some of the centers do some good work, but the question is have they strayed from their original mission", a Congessional analyst asks in a report released in June. While generally critical of the FFRDCs record, the report concluded that they may off some advantages over private companies since the centers are restricted in performing outside research. Senate sources said funding for FFRDCs could be cut even deeper in the defense appropriations bill expected in the fall. The only question now, Senate sources say, is how deep the cuts will be and how they will be distributed among the centers. The betting is that the bigger centers will absorb most of the cuts, one source predicts. ============================================================================== Given that the software-related FFRDCs have shown no initiative in raising and examining the issue critical to Ada's health and the hypocrisy of its non-use inside the DoD, there will be some of us who loose no sleep seeing the FFRDCs shrunk. Much of the raw data I have been posting (minus my obnoxious comments) should have been coming out of SEI, MITRE and IDA. I have a suggestion for SEI management. When you start laying off, fire all the people involved with the suppression of the SEI report whose data undermines the rationale for the Ada Mandate, and whose data contradicts and was ignored in SEI's followon substudy on Ada and C++. Getting rid of intellectual dishonest people is a good way to downsize. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian srctran@world.std.com Source Translation & Optimization 617-489-3727 P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178