Once upon a time Bruce Tong wrote:
>
> > MICROSOFT CORP and three industry leaders announced the signing of an
> > unprecedented agreement with the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center
> > (ESC) to begin converting military command and control (C2) applications
> > from UNIX operating system environments to the Microsoft Windows NT
> > operating system. The effort, under a cooperative research and development
> > agreement (CRADA) signed April 14 at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford,
> > Mass., marks the first time any Defense Department organization has
> > publicly stated plans for moving critical C2 applications from UNIX to the
> > Windows NT operating system. (PR Newswire 04:00 PM ET 04/21/98)
>
> PR wise, regardless of the actual costs and timelines, or even if the
> system failed to meet its objectives, it will be labeled as "on time and
> under budget." That's the way the USAF works. (Look at the CCPDS-R project
> out on the 'net. From what I saw when I was in, it was way over budget and
> 7 years late but they describe it as a model project.
All this seems to implie that somehow C2 security is a big deal. It
isn't. It is the *lowest* level of the Orange Book classification
which the DoD will allow to be used.
But for what are called multi-level secure applications (i.e. when
there are people with different security classifications using the
system simultaneously) then the minimum leve required is B2. There is
a big difference.
>
> The good news is...
>
> If the USAF is adopting Windows NT, then we might as well start the party
> now. From my experience, when the USAF adopts "new" technology, that
> technology tends to die in the rest of the world. Again, the CCPDS-R
> project - on line now for a couple of years: Ada on DEC/VMS. It replaced a
> reliable but old application written in Jovial (1960's - kind of a neat
> language; very C like in attitude but not syntax) on Sperry (now Unisys)
> machines.
It's a long time sine I looked at any Jovial code, but wasn't it
closer in spirit and feel to Algol? The name, IIRC, was an acronym for
Jules's Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language?
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