Re: Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada

[woodruff@tanana.llnl.gov (John Woodruff)]

>>>>> "Bob" == Robert B Love <rlove@neosoft.com> writes:

    > While use and waivers for Ada on DoD projects is discussed here a
    > lot, what about non-DoD big gov't projects?  Anybody have any info
    > on Ada usage in:

others, and 

    > 7) DOE

    > Concerning #7, I know a little about what the Idaho reactor people
    > do with Ada but what about Los Alamos & Lawrence Livermore.

At LLNL we are just beginning the National Ignition Facility project to
build a laser for inertial confinement fusion research.  Our software
will be in Ada-95.  (The Nova laser is controlled by Ada software as
well).

NIF is just completing the Title-I engineering phase; scheduled
completion in 2002, project cost $1.1 billion.

The design of the laser is 192 beams, each 40 cm aperture; 1.8 MegaJoule
energy in 25 nanosecond pulse.  Control system controls some 45000
points in six subsystems.

Also at LLNL the physical security system called Argus is implemented in
Ada.

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