Date received: 14 Feb 1995 Dear Colleague, Please find enclosed the electronic brochure for the 13th Annual National Conference on Ada Technology to be held in Valley Forge Pennsylvania from 13-16 March 1995. The conference theme is Ada on the Information Superhighway. Keynote speakers include: The Honorable Emmett Paige, Jr. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Lt Gen Albert J. Edmonds, USAF Director, Defense Information Systems Agency Kenneth Swimm, President, Management and Data Systems Martin Marietta Corporation Watts Humphrey, SEI Fellow Software Engineering Institute Elizabeth Wald, Program Manager for Computers, Office of Naval Research The electronic conference brochure below consists of: 1. Conference at a Glance 2. Welcome 3. Technical Program 4. Panels 6. Tutorials 7. General Information 8. Conference Registration Form 9. Hotel Registration Form 10. History PLEASE NOTE CHANGES FROM THE PRINTED ANCOAT'95 BROCHURE => 1. We are pleased to announce Dr. Larry Druffel will be chairing the panel on Best Commercial Practices. His panelists include Colonel Ellis Conoley, Mr. Dennis Turner, and Dr. Raghu Singh. Please see the panel description for details. 2. Starting time for tutorials is 8:00 A.M. and NOT 9:00 as indicated in the brochure. 3. We are pleased to announce that Mr. Reed Sorenson of TRW will be conducting the tutorial on DoD/Commercial Software Standards. ______________________________________________________________________________ CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADA TECHNOLOGY Theme: Ada on the Information Superhighway March 13-16, 1995 Sheraton Plaza Hotel Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Conference At A Glance... MONDAY, March 13, 1995 --------------------------------------------------------- | Half Day: | | TUTORIALS 3. Safety Critical Applications | | Using Ada | 8:00am - 5:00pm | Full Day: 4. Group Support Systems | | 1. Ada95 5. Legacy Systems | | 2. The World Wide Web 6. DoD/Commercial Software | | Standards | --------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, March 14, 1995 --------------------------------------------------------- 8:30am - 10:00am | Opening Session - Welcome | | Keynote Address: Hon. Emmett Paige, Jr. | --------------------------------------------------------- 10:30am - 12 Noon | Ada Resources on the Information Superhighway Panel | --------------------------------------------------------- 12 Noon - 1:30pm | Luncheon, Speaker: Lt Gen Albert J. Edmonds, USAF | | Director, Defense Information Systems Agency | --------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Ada95 Panel |The Information Superhighway| --------------------------------------------------------- 3:45pm - 5:15pm | Ada95 | Student Papers | --------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm - 10:00pm | Vendor Hospitality Suites | --------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, March 15, 1995 --------------------------------------------------------- 8:30am - 10:00am | Opening Session - Keynote Address: Kenneth Swimm, | | President, Management and Data Systems, Martin Marietta | --------------------------------------------------------- 10:30am - 12 Noon | Information Superhighway | Software Reuse | | in Education Panel | | --------------------------------------------------------- 12 Noon - 1:30pm | Luncheon, Speaker: Watts Humphrey, | | SEI Fellow, Software Engineering Institute | --------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Education I: | Ada-based Applications | | Language Comparisons | | --------------------------------------------------------- 3:45pm - 5:15pm | Education II: OO Design |Ada and Software Engineering| | and Software Engineering |for Commercial Applications | --------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm - 10:00pm | Special Event: Lily Langtry's | --------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, March 16, 1995 --------------------------------------------------------- 8:30am - 10:00am | Commercial Use of Ada Panel | --------------------------------------------------------- 10:15am - 11:45am | Best Commercial Practices Panel | -------------------------------------------------------- 12 Noon - 1:00pm | Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Wald, | | Program Manager for Computers, Office of Naval Research | | Best Paper Awards | | Closing Remarks: Christine Braun, | | GTE Information Systems | --------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________________________________________ Welcome Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to invite you to the Thirteenth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology. The conference will be held March 13-16, 1995 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, at the Sheraton Valley Forge Hotel. This year's theme is Ada on the Information Superhighway. The planned tutorials, keynote addresses, panels, and the selected papers will focus on the key role of Ada and software engineering technology in realizing the vision of the information age. We've planned an exciting program with recognized experts from industry, academia, and government leading our exploration of timely technologies and challenges. This is traditionally a collegial, interactive, and involving conference. A balanced mix of professionals from industry, academia, and government ensures a wide-ranging and stimulating perspective. Sessions especially focused on the interests of educators and students encourage the continuing development of your software professionals. Sessions on leading- edge technology and today's business challenges benefit even the most seasoned professionals. Please take a close look at the enclosed "Conference at a Glance;" we're sure you'll find a lot to interest you. So make your plans to join us for a stimulating week in Valley Forge. And while you're in the area, take the opportunity to visit the many local historic sites and tourist attractions. We look forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, Christine Braun GTE Information Systems President, ANCOST, Inc. Sponsored by: ANCOST, Inc. With Participation by: U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, AJPO, DISA, FAA, NASA Conference Committee... President: MS. CHRISTINE L. BRAUN, GTE Information Systems Treasurer: MS. SUSAN MARKEL, TRW Secretary: DR. MURRAY KIRCH, Stockton College of New Jersey President-Elect: DR. MARTIN L. BARRETT, East Tennessee State University Immediate Past-President: DR. JAMES HOOPER, Marshall University Academic Host Chair: DR. M. SUSAN RICHMAN, Penn State University, Harrisburg Academic Outreach/Student Papers: DR. MARTIN BARRETT, East Tennessee State University Budget Committee Chair: MR. MICHAEL SAPENTER, Telos Federal Systems Policies, Procedures & By-Laws Chair: MS. DEE GRAUMANN, GDE Systems, Inc. Panels Chair: MR. CURRIE COLKET, U.S. Navy Promotion Chair: MR. STEVE LAZEROWICH, Empress Software, Inc. Technical Program Chair: DR. AKHTAR LODGHER, Marshall University Tutorial Chair: MR. JERRY MUNGLE, Nichols Processing Group MR. MIGUEL A. CARRIO, JR., MTM Engineering MR. RONALD G. DAMER, Software Productivity Consortium MS. MICHELE DICKEY, Rational MR. GEORGE HARRISON, Norfolk State University MR. WILLIAM LOFTUS, WPL Laboratories, Inc. DR. JOSEPH MONROE, North Carolina A&T State University DR. EMMANUEL OMOJOKUN, Virginia State University MR. GEORGE ROMANSKI, Thompson Software Products Conference Director: MS. MARJORIE Y. RISINGER, CMP, Rosenberg & Risinger Advisory Members: MR. CURRIE COLKET, U.S. Navy MAJ. GERALD DEPASQUALE, U.S. Marine Corps DR. C. RONALD GREEN, U.S. Army Space & Strategic Defense Command MR. JEFFERY HERMAN, U.S. Army CECOM, SED MR. DANIEL HOCKING, Army Research Laboratory MR. HUET LANDRY, DISA/JIEO MAJ. SHELTON LEE, DISA MR. DON REIFER, DISA/JIEO MR. E.V. (ZEKE) SALTER, DISA MR. CARRINGTON STEWART, NASA JSC Academic Co-Hosts: Penn State University, Harrisburg Dr. Howard G. Sachs, Acting Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Dr. J. Russell Nazzaro, Vice President for Academic Affairs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM Tuesday, March 14, 1995 8:30am - 10:00am Opening Session: Keynote Address: The Honorable Emmett Paige, Jr. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence 10:30am - 12 Noon Ada Resources on the Information Superhighway Panel: See under Panels 12 Noon - 1:30pm Luncheon Keynote Address: Lt Gen Albert J. Edmonds, USAF Director, Defense Information Systems Agency 2:00pm - 3:30pm Ada95 Panel: see under Panels Information Superhighway Technical Papers: Chairperson: Mr. Carrington Stewart, LBJ Space Center, Houston, TX 1.1 Problem of the Dependability of Ada Components Available via Information Superhighways - Gilles Motet & Jean-Marie Kubek, DGE Institut National des Sciences Appliques, Toulouse, France 1.2 Development of the Web - Bob Krut, Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 1.3 ELSA and MORE: A Library and an Environment for the Web - David Eichmann, University of Houston - Clear Lake, Houston, TX, Margaretha Price, Robert Terry & Lou Welton, MountainNet, Inc., Morgantown, WV 3:45pm - 5:15pm Ada95 Technical Papers: Chairperson: Dr. James Hooper, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 2.1 Ada 95 Quality and Style - Christine Ausnit & Kent A. Johnson, Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, VA 2.2 The Encapsulation of Iterators (and Other Incomplete Algorithms): A Comparison Between Ada83 and Ada 95 - John Beidler, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 2.3 Formal Specification for Ada 95 Software Reuse - Huiming Yu & Joseph Monroe, North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, NC 3:45pm - 5:15pm Student Papers: Chairperson: Dr. Martin Barrett, East Tennessee State University 3.1 Christopher D. Filachek and David A. Yeselavage, Jr., University of Scranton, Developing a Generic, Encapsulated B-tree Package For Educational Use. 3.2 Paul Eppley, Penn State Harrisburg and North Lebanon High School, Catch 'em Young: Teaching Ada in High School 3.3 Manuel Perez, George Washington University, Development of the GW/Ada-Ed Project. 7:00pm - 10:00pm Vendor Hositality Suites ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, March 15, 1995 8:30am - 10:00am Keynote Address: Kenneth Swimm, President, Management and Data Systems Martin Marietta Corporation 10:30am - 12 Noon The Information Superhighway in Education Panel: See under Panels Software Reuse: Chairperson: Ms. Susan Markel, TRW Corporation 4.1 An Empirical Approach to Screening Reusable Ada Components - Gary N. Mayes, US Army Space & Strategic Defense Command, Huntsville, AL, Malcolm Morrison & Steve Shipley, Quality Research, Huntsville, AL 4.2 Software Reuse Business Model: Electronic Meeting System Review - A Successful Application of Groupware, John Nichols, Quality Research, Huntsville, AL 4.3 Cognitive Analysis, Design and Programming: Toward Generalization of the Object Oriented Paradigm and the Reuse and Conversion of Legacy Code into Ada, Joseph Scandura, Scandura Corp., Narbeth, PA 12 Noon - 1:30pm Luncheon Keynote Address: Watts Humphrey, SEI Fellow Software Engineering Institute 2:00pm - 3:30pm Education I: Language Comparisons: Chairperson: Dr. M. Susan Richman, Penn State University, Harrisburg 5.1 Language Wars - Did Ada Lose?, Dr. Martin Barrett, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 5.2 Learning C++ for Ada Users, Akhtar Lodgher & Hisham Al-Haddad, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 5.3 Using A Parallel Algorithm to Solve Eight Queens Puzzle, Huei-Chung Chu, National Defense Management College, Taipei, Taiwan 2:00pm - 3:30pm Ada-based Applications: Chairperson: Mr. Steve Lazerowich, Empress Software, Inc. 6.1 Ada as a Development Method: Making the Most of Ada's Built-in Checks, Mike Jenkins, Honeywell, Inc., Phoenix, AZ 6.2 Programming Abstractions and Software System Composition, William Loftus, WPL Laboratories, Inc., Haverford, PA and John Lewis, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 3:45pm - 5:15pm Education II: Object-Oriented Design and Software Engineering: Chairperson: Dr. Murray Kirch, Stockton College of New Jersey 7.1 Teaching Software Engineering Principles in the Classroom and Ada in the Laboratory: A Case Study, Roger Y. Lee & James P. Kelsh, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 7.2 Complexity Measure for OOD Programs in Ada, Hassan Mathkour, Jagdish Agrawal & Adad Shah, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 7.3 On Developing Safe Mathematical Software: An Experience Using Ada to Implement a New Nonlinear Optimization Algorithm, Emmanuel Omojokun, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 3:45pm - 5:15pm Ada and Software Engineering for Commercial Applications: Chairperson: Mr. Currie Colket, US Navy 8.1 Reengineering Toward a Domain Architecture, Christine Braun, GTE Information Systems, Chantilly, VA 8.2 Distributed Process Control Using Ada, David L. Shroads, Jr., Weirton Steel Corporation, Weirton, WV 6:00pm - 10pm Lily Langtry's Dinner and Show (Optional Activity) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, March 16, 1995 8:30am - 10:00am Commercial Ada Panel: See under Panels 10:15 am - 11:45am Best Commercial Practices Panel: See under Panels 12:00am - 1:00pm Keynote Address: Elizabeth Wald, Program Manager for Computers, Office of Naval Research Best Paper Awards/Closing Remarks: Christine L. Braun, GTE Information Systems ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PANELS Panel #1 Ada Resources on the Information Superhighway Panel Tuesday, 14 March 1995, 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon Moderator: Ms. Susan Carlson, Ada Information Clearinghouse, IITRI Panelists: Ms. Mary Collella, IITRI, representing AdaIC's Internet Host, Mr. Rick Conn, MITRE, representing the Public Ada Library, Ms. Kristin Mead, IITRI, representing Ada Internet Resources This panel will provide an overview of all the free Ada resources on the Information Superhighway. Attendees will walk away with all of the information they need to "surf" the Internet to find free and high quality Ada resources available for downloading. Ada resources include: * Products/Tools to include: validated compilers, Ada95 GNAT, commercially available tools, and Ada bindings; * Quality & Style guidelines for using Ada; * Reusable software components to include: on-line repositories (PAL, ASSET, DSRS, CARDS, RAPID, AdaNET), bundled reusable components, and stand-alone reuse packages such as AdaSAGE; * Education and training in Ada Resources (Ada83 compilers for education, Ada95 GNAT compilers, ASEET (electronic archive of educational artifacts), and SIGAda's Education Working Group; * SIGAda Working Group Products on ACM's SIGAda node; * Electronic Internet Information resources to include: AdaIC; electronic newsletters; Internet [AdaIC now sw-eng.falls- church.va.us (formerly ajpo.sei.cmu.edu)], Ada World Wide Web resources, comp.lang.ada, FAQs; bundled information resources; * Electronic Ada Policy resources. ----------------------- Panel #2 Ada 95 Panel Tuesday, 14 March 1995, 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. Moderator: Tucker Taft, Intermetrics Panelists: Robert Dewar, New York University Mike Feldman, George Washington University To Ada83, Ada95 has added Object Oriented Programming (OOP), better support for programming in the large, improved support for reliable systems, and annexes around a core language to support special programming needs. These annexes support the special needs of system programming, real-time systems, distributed systems, information systems, numerics, safety, and security. Ada95 has already been approved by ISO; Ada95 is expected to be approved as an ANSI standard and a NIST FIPS in early 1995. Ada95 has been available from the Free Software Foundation in the form of the GNAT for over a year. GNAT and other commercially available compilers have been used to prototype applications under development. The validation suite for the validation of Ada95 compilers was frozen on 6 February 1995. Validated Ada95 compilers are eminent. This panel will address the key changes to Ada83 incorporated by Ada95, the status of the Ada95 standardization process, early usage experience of Ada95 using GNAT, and the expected availability of commercial Ada95 validated compilers. ------------------------ Panel #3 Impact of the Information Superhighway on Education Panel Wednesday, 15 March 1995, 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon Moderator: Dr. Thomas H. Martin, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University Panelists: Dr. Donald Day, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Jeffrey Guinter, IBM The Information Superhighway is providing capability faster than our educational system is able to react. Computer information science departments will be incorporating Superhighway resources into courses. Course work might involve accessing databases over telnet/mosaic to searches for reusable components. In addition, the Superhighway will impact practically all curricula besides computer information sciences such as telecommunications, law, medicine, engineering, pure sciences, liberal arts, and the fine arts. Computer science departments may be asked to help lead the way to develop curricula for other disciplines. Yet the Information Superhighway is not omnipresent at many schools. Schools often view access to the Internet as a potentially large cost in times of tight budgets and a source of friction with parents as students encounter nonprescribed material. Far more students access the network from home than from school. Currently, most undergraduates have not had access to the Internet before college. Students who have had access to the Internet before college, view it as liberating, often shaping career goals. Issues the panel will address include: * Impact of the Information Superhighway on computer science and other academic curricula; * What is the best way to provide student access to the Information Superhighway? * Can schools risk letting students explore the full network? * Can schools justify the expense of network provision? * Will student network users continue to come from the homes of the elite? * Should high schools be encouraged to introduce the Information Superhighway to students? ------------------------------------- Panel #4 Commercial Use of Ada Panel Thursday, 16 March 1995, 8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. Moderator: George Romanski, Thompson Software Products. Panelists: Representatives from a cross-section of industry Ben Brosgol, Brosgol Consulting and Training Representative from Westinghouse Representative from Reuters Representative from commercial aviation (invited) Representative from commercial communications (invited) The Ada language has some strong support from certain non-defense- oriented companies. These commercial organizations selected a language based on commercial advantages rather than Government mandate. Why was the language chosen? What has been their experience? With hindsight, was this the right decision? These questions will be posed to panelists from various industries to explore how Ada is used at particular companies, and in the commercial world as a whole. The industries represented will include commercial aircraft manufacturers, where software quality and large scale integration of many subsystems are highly critical; the air traffic management systems industry, where re-use and re-configuration of software provides major commercial advantages; the nuclear power industry has traditionally been very conservative, yet Ada plays a role in the critical control systems. The medical instrumentation, transportation and telecommunications industries have used Ada to some extent. What were the factors that limited the growth of Ada in these industries? Size, complexity, economics, tradition...? The Commercial Use of Ada will also be explored through the experiences of a commercial Ada Educator. Why do people come to learn Ada? What do they expect from Ada courses? What are their expectations for the future from Ada95? ------------------------------------------ Panel #5 Best Commercial Practices Panel Thursday, 16 March 1995, 10:15 A.M. - 11:45 A.M. Moderator: Dr. Larry Druffel, Director, Software Engineering Institute Panelists: Colonel Ellis Conoley, USAF, PM for Global Command & Control System (GCCS), DISA Mr. Dennis J. Turner, Director, Software Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army. CECOM Dr. Raghu Singh, Senior Manager, Software and Security Policy, SPAWAR, U.S. Navy Representative from industry (invited) A Defense Science Board task force was initiated in 1994 to recommend a strategy for how DoD could take advantage of best commercial practices and products in the acquisition of software systems. The task force recommendations are consistent with the intent of Secretary Perry's strategy for acquisition reform. This panel will address some of the technical and business issues associated with the implementation of the DSB recommendations. The DSB recommendations were based on an underlying vision for the technical and business environment in which DoD will operate. The panel chair will describe this vision, highlight relevant recommendations, and introduce issues that need to be considered in the implementation. Panel members from government and industry will expand on specific issues. Participants from the audience will be encouraged to raise additional questions for the panel to consider. The DSB based its recommendations on best commercial practices. The task force used an analysis prepared by the Software Engineering Institute that compared the advantages and disadvantages of DoD practices with those of best commercial practice. Recognizing that DoD has special constraints and needs, the intent was to recommend adoption of those best commercial practices that are appropriate. Two common misunderstandings of the DSB report have been that (a) the DSB believes all commercial practices are superior to those of DoD and (b) all commercial software organizations are consistent with best practices. The DSB asserted that DoD practices are not consistent with best commercial practices and in many cases those best commercial practices are superior to those of DoD. The DSB made no attempt to assess the breadth of adoption of best practices commercially. The recommendations are also based on the realization that although DoD is a big customer, it is not a dominant force in the software marketplace. As a big customer, DoD can and does have influence. But like other customers, DoD must formulate its business strategy to take advantage of the marketplace. DoD must have access to the very best technology, and that is often available commercially. In many cases, the DoD needs are congruent with commercial needs. Time to market is one example. At the same time, the DoD has special needs and must either influence the marketplace or contract separately. Contracting separately is no longer an affordable option in most cases. The vision the DSB tried to communicate is for DoD to recognize that many of its requirements can be met by integrating commercially available software (COTS) into its systems. To do so requires that the DoD manage its systems as product lines. Those product lines should be based on well- defined software architectures with open interfaces that exploit commercial standards.This vision requires significant changes in the approach to acquisition of systems that depend on software. While many of the recommendations can be adopted immediately, others will require more time before the vision will be realized. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS Monday, March 13, 1995 Full Day Sessions 1. Ada95 - Michael Kamrad, Computing Devices International This tutorial is designed for students and practioners already knowledgeable of Ada83. New Ada95 concepts, additions, and enhancements will be presented. Some of the key Ada95 topics to be covered are: object-oriented programming (OOP), real-time scheduling enhancements, increased support for database/MIS applications, security-related enhancements, etc. An overview of each of the six Ada95 annexes will be provided. 2. The World Wide Web - Bob Munck, Unisys Corporation This tutorial will first examine the base technology of the Web, including the following: Web Clients and Servers; Universal Reference Locators (URLs); HyperText Transmission Protocol (http); HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and its relationship to SGML; other media supported (embedded images, sounds, and video); Image Maps, Forms, Server-side and Client-side procedures; and ftp, gopher, archie, wais and telnet queries. The tutorial will also address the principles of building a good hypertext or hypermedia, including the following: attractive, readable page; helping the reader avoid "getting lost;" and tables of contents, indices, threads and search mechanisms. We will also discuss use of Web facilities for particular software engineering activities, including: domain and process modeling using IDEF; component-based and other kinds of reuse repositories; hypertext implementation of most or all of the development data base - specifications, source code, documentation, test plans and data, etc.; and HyperAda - a hypertext representation of Ada source code. Course materials will include a floppy disk containing the newest public domain browser(s), Web pointers to other sources of the information covered in the tutorial, and an on-line version of the tutorial presentation slides. Half Day Sessions: 3. Safety Critical Applications Using Ada - George Romanski, Thompson Software Products This tutorial will provide an overview of software safety and review applicable safety guidelines and standards. The safe use of high-level languages will be addressed - in particular, C, C++, Ada83 and Ada95. A safe subset of Ada will be described with a rationale for the selection of language constructs. A safety certification process, together with verification techniques and tools will be addressed. The different approaches to certification by various industries will be described. Finally, some recommendations will be given to help avoid problems which may be encountered during the certification of a safety critical application. 4. Group Support Systems - Daniel Hocking, Army Research Laboratory This 4-hour tutorial introduces participants to basic concepts of electronic meeting support and presents techniques for using electronic meeting support to enhance the success of various types of meetings. The tutorial begins with a presentation supported by an electronic meeting system wherein participants ask questions and make comments electronically. Following the presentation, a sample session will be used to demonstrate the power of parallel input, support for idea organization, consensus generation, prioritization, and documentation. 5. Software Reengineering: Leveraging Your Legacy Software System Assets, Michael R. Olson, USAF/Software Technology Support Center and Chris Sittenauer, SAIC This tutorial will discuss the reengineering domain, its various sub-domains, and what factors (including human factors) contribute to the successful implementation of reengineering technology. Topics include matching reengineering strategies to your organization's software systems, expected return on investment for typical reengineering projects, personnel issues, and the future directions of reengineering. 6. DoD/Commercial Software Standards - Presenter: Reed Sorenson, TRW This tutorial compares the use of software standards within the DoD and the commercial world. There is a particular focus of the DoD's current transition from DoD-STD-21676A to MIL-STD-498, and the DoD's ultimate objective to replace DoD standards with "best commercial practices." The impact of the DoD's recent decision to move toward "best commercial practices" upon both the software acquisition and development processes will be discussed. This tutorial is a "must" for DoD personnel who are involved in the software acquisition process and/or the management of software contractors and DoD software managers and developers. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION Conference Management: ROSENBERG & RISINGER The Meeting Professionals (310) 397-6338 Registration: Advanced registration is encouraged. Please use the form enclosed in this brochure. To take advantage of the Early Bird Discount Fees, registrations must be postmarked by February 20, 1995. No registrations will be processed without full payment. To register by mail, send to: ANCOST c/o Rosenberg & Risinger 11287 W. Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90230 To register by fax with credit card, dial: (310) 391-7597 All registrations must be paid in US currency. Attendees from outside the United States are asked to register by mail and to pay on-site with US Currency or Travelers Checks. Hotel Accommodations: Rooms have been reserved at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel (not to be confused with the Sheraton Valley Forge Hotel, which is physically adjacent to it) at the Conference Rate of $70 single or double. To reserve a room, return the enclosed reservation form directly to the Sheraton or phone (610) 265-1500 and identify yourself as an Ada Technology Conference attendee. IMPORTANT: We urge you to make your travel and hotel reservations EARLY!!!!! Transportation: Airport: The Sheraton Plaza Hotel is located 35 minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport. You will find staffed SuperShuttle counters in the baggage claim areas in B, C, D, and E Terminals. Current cost is $17 per person one way. If you have any problems or questions, you can reach SuperShuttle at (215) 551-6600. The hotel is easily accessible from the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Route 76. >From Philadelphia, take Schuylkill Expressway (Route 76) west to Exit #25. Bear right at first light onto Mall Blvd. (formerly Goddard Blvd.). Turn right at next light onto N. Gulph Road and proceed through 4 lights to First Avenue. Bear left entering the parking lot to reach the Sheraton Plaza Hotel. Student Participation: The ANCOST conference provides many chances for students to interact with other students, professors, industry and government professionals. The conference provides an "up close and personal," nurturing environment for student attendees. Student activities include a conference overview, a special student session, birds-of-a-feather meetings, and participation in all regular conference events. Take this opportunity to meet others in the Ada community. Bring your resume; you never know just who you'll meet! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM THIRTEENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Ada TECHNOLOGY March 13-16, 1995 - Sheraton Plaza Hotel - King of Prussia, PA Name (Last, First, Middle Initial): __________________________________________ Company Name or School: _____________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ City, State, Zip Code: _____________________________________________________ Country: _____________________________________________________ Telephone: __________________________ Fax Number: _________________________ E-mail: _____________________________________________________________________ (registration will be confirmed by email) Conference Registration Rate Schedule: Conference => Before 20 February | After 20 February | Government _____ $295 | _____ $345 Industry _____ $295 | _____ $345 Academia _____ $250 | _____ $295 Students _____ $ 95 | _____ $125 I will attend (included in Conference rate): Luncheon on Tuesday _____ Yes _____ No Luncheon on Wednesday _____ Yes _____ No Tutorials => Before 20 February | After 20 February (full day/half day) | (full day/half day) | Government _____ $220/ _____ $110 | _____ $250/ _____ $125 Industry _____ $220/ _____ $110 | _____ $250/ _____ $125 Academia _____ $150/ _____ $75 | _____ $200/ _____ $100 Students _____ $ 75/ ____ _ $40 | _____ $ 95/ _____ $50 Full Day (Select One): _____ Ada95 _____ World Wide Web or Full Day (Select One from Morning & One from Afternoon Session): For Half Day (Select One of the following): Morning Sessions: _____ Safety Critical Applications with Ada _____ Group Support Systems Afternoon Sessions: _____ Legacy Systems _____ DoD/Commercial Software Standards Lilly Langtry's _____ $ 26 (Wednesday Evening Optional Activity) Dinner Selection: _____ Beef or _____ Flounder TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED $__________ Mail or fax your registration form. 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