From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: DoD brass ignores Ada promotional opportunity
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 13:40:44 GMT
Date: 1994-11-21T13:40:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CzMDzx.5ww@world.std.com> (raw)
Once again. ADA IS EASY TO SPELL, EASY TO TYPE, EASY TO SAY, EASY TO USE.
Why is it then that DoD types find it soooo hard to use the word, except when
they are forced to at porkpoint?
Case in point. On December 13 and 14, the American Defense Preparedness
Assocation is holding the:
Corporate Information Management
and
Enterprise Integration
Symposium
at the Hyatt Regency Reston. "CIM has been identified as a key factor in
unifying tactical and administrative systems that underpin DoD operations.
The DoD points out the information revolution is giving the "warfighting
commander an integrated picture of battlespace, so he can control the pace
and outcome of battle. It gives the manager critical insight into current
performance and best practice so processes can be eliminated, improved and
reengineered. It creates a new, more responsive and cost-effective
relationship between the DoD and industry through the application of
enabling technologies".
Sounds like a perfect symposium to prominently mention Ada's role in CIM
and EI, especially as some of the great lovers of Ada are speakers. I mean
love of Ada shouldn't be restricted to expression just at Tri-Ada and STSC,
it should be everywhere in the DoD. Let's see confirmation of this consistency
of love by looking at the agenda:
Dec 13
8:45- 9:45 Keynote Presentation: Vision for CIM and EI
Emmett Paige, Ass.Sec.Def.
9:45-10:15 CIM Strategic Plan
Cynthia Kendall, Dep.Ass.Sec.Def
10:45-11:15 Overall Assessment of CIM-EI: Top-Down View of Out
Progress in Achieving Goals
Albert Edmonds, Director DISA
11:15-11:35 Enterprise Integration: Steps in Implementing Our Goals
Michael Mestrovich, Dep.Director DISA
11:35-12:00 CIM-Systems Engineering for Migration Systems
John Gauss, Dep. Director DISA
Luncheon Seminar
Noel Longuemare, Dep.Under.Sec.Def.
1:30- 3:30 Panel: DoD Functional Leaders Report Achievements in
Business Process Re-Engineering, Migration Selection
and Data Standardization
Logistics: James Klugh, Dep.Under.Sec.Def - Logistics
Financial: John Hamre, Under.Sec.Def - Comptroller
Health: Steven Jospeh, Ass.Sec.Def - Health Affairs
Personnel: Edwin Dorn, Under.Sec.Def - Personnel
3:30- 5:30 Selected Leads Services Report Status of Implementations
of Migration Selected Functions
ARMY: MG Otto Guenther, Dir.Info.Sys.C4
NAVY: VADM Walter Davis, Dir.Warfare Systems Arch.
AF: LTG Carl O'Berry, Dep. Chief of Staff, C4
MARINE: MG Paul Van Riper, Ass. Chief of Staff, C4I
Dec 14
9:15-10:30 DoD Policy, Technical Standards and Joint
Interoperability Initiatives Panel:
DoD Software Initiatives - John Burt, Dir. TSEE-OUSD
Software Center for Excellence and Data Administration
Belkis Leong-Hong, Dep.Com JIEO-DISA
Communication & Hardware Technology - BG Frederick Essig
Security - Barbara Valeri - Dir.Info.Sys.Sec C3I - OSD
11:00-12:00 Industry Implementation/Lessons Learned Panel:
Parallel in Enterprise Integration forced on industry
by world class competition: CIM, TQE, CIE.
Boeing - Peter Dube
Martin Marietta - Joseph Cleveland
GTE - Francis Gicca
EDS - S.J. Hyduk
Luncheon Seminar
Paul Strassman - Former CIM Director - Ernest & Young
2:30- 4:30 Congressional Panel: Perspective, Concerns, Viability
Joseph Kimmitt - Sen. Subcom. on Defense Appropriation
Stephen Rossetti - House Armed Services Committee
Charles Wheeler - Government Operations Committee
4:00- 4:30 Wrap-up: Results / Successes vs Expectations/ Goals
Cynthia Rand - Dir. for Information Mgmt - OSD
====================
ONCE AGAIN, WHERE THE HELL IS ADA?????? If Ada is soooooo important to
DoD operations that we need the federal law of the Ada Mandate, then why
can't all these bigwigs make sure that Ada gets prominence in symposiums like
this? I am sure all of the DISA types must have seen a preliminary agenda
ahead of time - didn't it occur to any of them to say "gee, how about giving
Ada a little prominence in the symposium if you want us to all show up?".
Is there no coordination of Ada policy going on?
Why isn't there at least one session with Ada in the title, like
"The role of Ada in successful CIM & EI"? I mean if everything new has to
be done in Ada, and CIM & EI are new, then such a session should be given.
Sure many of the topics here deal with computer concerns above the level of
programming, and sure some of these people actually might mention Ada in their
talks (maybe Burt & Leong-Hong), but too many of these people have pledged
their hearts and souls to Ada for them not to demand that part of this forum
be used for pressing the case for Ada, with Ada prominently mentioned in the
agenda. Ada, Ada, Ada, Ada. Is that so hard to say?
If the DoD is going to continue with the national security threat of the
Ada Mandate (i.e. anything that engenders hypocrisy is a threat), then the DoD
better start doing it more consistently, by both word and actions. Every DoD
software related forum (especially those run by ARPA) should have Ada in the
title of at least one session, if not all - anything less sends out the SIGNAL
that the DoD just isn't serious about Ada.
And Paul Strassman should be banned from any DoD software forum. Rarely,
if at all, since he has left the Pentagon, has he mentioned Ada in the many
articles and interviews he gives (much like IBM, now that they are no longer
troughing for Ada dollars). I am tired of all of these DoD types who love
Ada while in the Mandated world, and then instantly forget about Ada the
minute they switch to the real world. Strassman is probably the one on the
Army Science Board supporting Army attempts to create object oriented
programming languages (which with Ada9X seems a waste of Army money, but
maybe they are jealous of the Air Force's non-Ada KBSA waste).
I hope someone from TeamAda can afford to go to this symposium and make
a count of mentions of "Ada" in each person's speech.
Greg Aharonian
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1994-11-21 13:40 Gregory Aharonian [this message]
1994-11-21 15:14 ` DoD brass ignores Ada promotional opportunity David Weller
1994-11-22 17:52 ` DoD brass ignores Ada promotional opportun Charles Stump
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1994-11-23 14:22 ` DoD brass ignores Ada promotional opportunity Herndon Elliott
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