“Ada is an ideal language for an architecture-based environment. It allows designs to be abstract and at the same time provides the flexibility for each developer to concentrate on their part of the design. Two widely different projects, CCPDS-R and Cobra Dane, were delivered on time, under budget, and did what the user wanted. They both used the same architecture, the same standards, and the same language, Ada.”

Lt. General Carl G. O’Berry, Deputy Chief of Staff, .Command, Control, Communications, and Computers, Headquarters US Air Force, 1993