NOACE- End of the road for Ada?

[Michael Card <thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com>]

Hello everyone-

It seems that everywhere I look, I see articles about the DoD world 
being anxious to purge Ada from all their systems in favor of C++ and 
Java. For example, see

http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/home/article.php?id=100149

This article references the Navy Open Architecture Computing Environment 
(NOACE- love that acronym) which specifically calls for a move away from 
Ada and requires all new software to be done in C++ or Java ("the C++ 
mandate"?)

My question is this: why are so many in the DoD itself and the 
contractors world opposed to Ada? The projects I have been on that used 
Ada got good results out of it in terms of system performance and 
development schedule. In both of these regards, the results were 
generally better than comparable C/C++ projects. So, was my experience 
unique? Were there great Ada failures (huge cost over-runs, bad 
performance, etc) that left such a bad taste in people's mouths that 
even nice products like modern Ada95 compilers are unwelcome?

Also, as Ada is being abandoned in the aerospace industry, is there 
evidence that it is being picked up elsewhere?

-Mike