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April 19, 1996 

Ada 95 PRODUCTS TO BE DEVELOPED THROUGH ATIP-P PROGRAM

Ten private sector companies have been awarded contracts through the Ada Technology Insertion Program-Partnership (ATIP-P). Spearheaded by the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), ATIP-P is part of a broad effort mounted by the Defense Information Systems Agency's Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) to stimulate utilization of Ada 95 within the government, academic, industrial, and research communities.

Awarding of the contracts completes the AJPO's competitive initiative to partner with proposing organizations to equally share (50/50) in the funding and commercialization of Ada 95 products. Products developed through the partnerships will increase the availability of Ada 95 tools and plug many technology gaps to successfully implement Ada 95. Products are expected to be available in 1996.

The 10 private sector companies and the areas their tools will address are:

Stony Brook Software of Thousand Oaks, CA Provide a Fast/Optimized Compiler and GUI development environment.
R.R. Software, Inc., of Madison, WI Provide object oriented bindings to the Win 32 development environment.
NOETIC Software, Inc., of Willow Grove, PA Provide bindings to the standard data interface bus MIL-STD-1553B and the designated commercial standard.
McKee Consulting of Littleton, CO Provide an Ada 95 development environment for the Apple Macintosh.
DDC-I of Phoenix, AZ Provide Ada 95 software test tools based on the established ASIS 95 standard.
Objective Interface Systems, Inc., of Reston, VA Distributed processing and client/server interfaces using the CORBA standard.
Ada Software, Inc. of Laurel, MD Provide Internet accessible Ada 95 training.
OC Systems, Inc., of Fairfax, VA Provide a visual programming environment and object libraries.
Intermetrics, Inc., of Cambridge, MA Enter Ada 95 into the expanding needs of the World Wide Web and "Applet" generation by providing an Ada 95 to Java J-code compiler.
WPL Laboratories, Inc., of Haverford, PA position Ada 95 to share in the rapid World Wide Web growth with Web-based Ada components.

Further information regarding the ATIP-P program can be obtained from the INEL program manager, Doug Colonel, at 208/526-0204, fax: 208/562-8086, or e-mail: col@inel.gov.

The AdaIC will provide additional information on the details of each contract award.

SOURCE:
Ada Joint Program Office 


THOMSON SOFTWARE PRODUCTS OFFERING FREE Ada 95 SEMINAR!

Thomson Software Products will be hosting six free 1/2 day seminars at the locations listed below. The seminar topic will be: Ada 95 Technical Overview. A detailed agenda can be faxed by request. More specific information will be avail- able on Thomson's web page.

Call or send e-mail to receive more information:

Toll free:800-833-0085 x244 or x267
Direct:619-457-2700 x244 or x267
E-mail:adainfo@thomsoft.com

Dates & Locations:

April 30, 1996- Huntsville, AL
May 1, 1996- Tyson's Corner, VA
May 14, 1996- Philadelphia, PA
May 15, 1996- Fairborn, OH
May 29, 1996- Waltham, MA
May 30, 1996- Ottawa, ON, Canada

If you cannot attend, contact Thomson Software Products for seminar materials.

SOURCE:
Posted by Thomson Software Products to comp.lang.ada 


Ada 95 BOOCH COMPONENTS AVAILABLE FOR FREE!

Ada 95 Booch Components has just been released and is available for free at ftp://ftp.dfw.net/pub/users/dweller! This release only provides the Queues sequential hierarchy, but near-future releases will include other components. Select the ".zip" file if using a Microsoft operating system other than Windows 95 or Windows NT.

Make sure to read the supplemental data provided and check out the web page located at http://www.ocsystems.com/booch.

SOURCE:
Posted by David Weller to comp.lang.ada 


Ada 95 AND RATIONAL: WORKING TOGETHER IN SAFETY-CRITICAL/ 
MISSION-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS

Rational Software Corporation is heightening awareness of Ada's important role in safety-critical applications as businesses have begun self-imposing tougher internal standards for testing and documenting software. Rational's article, "Look to Rational for Safety-Critical/Mission- Critical Application Development Tools", discusses the number of standards that have emerged to help improve the quality of applications and to shorten the development cycles that produce them.

Rational offers Ada and its own line of Ada products as a means of cutting down on the expense and time needed to develop safety-critical applications. Because Ada is, "rigorously defined, formally standardized, and designed for the creation of reliable systems", it can only aid businesses in their development of safety-critical applications.

Rational now offers VADS-sc, a line of Ada products specially configured for the development of safety-critical applications to the toughest level of criticality specified by DO-178B level A (standard enforced by the FAA). Other elements of Rational's Ada toolset that can be used to improve the quality and reduce the risk of software development efforts include: Rational Rose/Ada, Rational Apex, TestMate and SoDA.

SOURCE:
"Look to Rational for Safety-Critical/Mission-Critical Application Development Tools," The Rational Watch. 1996, Vol.6, No.1. 


Ada VERIFICATION TOOLS AVAILABLE FROM DDC-I

DDC-I, Inc. recently announced the release of DACS - Qualified, a set of FAA qualified Ada verification tools. The tools are used for verification of structural coverage in testing applications supporting both source level statement coverage as well as object code coverage. Each tool has been qualified and used for FAA certification of Assembly applications, Ada applications and Ada Run-Time Systems. The tools are non-intrusive, support cross development and are easy to use.

For more information, contact:

Jennifer C. Sanchez
DDC-I, Inc.,
400 N.5th St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Phone: 602/275-7172
Fax: 602/252-6054
http://www.ddci.com

SOURCE:
DDC-I, Inc. News Release.

The AdaIC's "Ada News Brief" is a compilation of summaries from Ada- related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. The AdaIC welcomes suggestions for and pointers to Ada-related articles.

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