Announcement
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Tucker Taft presented a talk on Ada 2005 at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics as planned today. 28 people, who included software engineers and software process engineers, from all the major programs (including the C-5 Reengineering Program, the F/A-22 program, the C-27J program, and the C-130J program) attended the event. Steve Traub, the FAA Designated Engineering Representative, hosted the event. Richard Conn of the SIGAda 2005 Conference Committee arranged for the event through Steve and provided local transportation for Tucker.
The talk was very well-received. This community is already heavily using Ada (both Ada83 and Ada95), with the F/A-22 Mission Computers already containing 16M lines of SPARK/Ada code, the C-130J Mission Computers containing about 7M lines of SPARK/Ada code, the C-27J Mission Computers containing about 5M lines of SPARK/Ada code, and the C-5 RERP program still in development. They were particularly interested in the new real-time features of Ada 2005, and are starting an internal study of it (for possible applicability for their programs) as of this afternoon.
Steve Traub reported later today that he was "flooded" with requests for copies of the talk. He is distributing them. I retained a copy for Clyde Roby to add to the post-conference CD-ROM.
Giveaways at the event were:
- The Systems Engineering Resource Guide for Educators and Practitioners CD to all attendees
- The Ada Power CD to all attendees
- 7 SIGAda 2005 USB Flash Drives (by drawing)
- 5 SIGAda 2005 conference bags (by drawing)
- The Systems Engineering tutorial from SIGAda 2005 on CD to all SEPGs (Software Engineering Process Groups) for the programs
Lockheed Martin is also an early adopter of Microsoft Team System and MSF 4. I will meet with some of their SEPG people at the launch event in Atlanta next week. This launch event is now full (over 2,000 tickets have been issued).
I wish to thank Tucker for his efforts in pulling off this event.
And thanks very much to Rick for arranging it. It was nice to get a chance to introduce the valuable enhancements in Ada 2005 to a crowd that is using Ada everyday building mission critical systems.