Download or read book The Department of Defense s Standardization Program for Military Computers A More Unified Effort Is Needed written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense's Standardization Program for Military Computers--A More Unified Effort Is Needed
Download or read book The Department of Defense s Standardization Program for Military Computers written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Defense written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Defense Standardization Program Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Standardization and Specification Program Policies Procedures and Instructions written by United States. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nebula and MCF Military Computer Family Standardization Programs written by E. Lieblein and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military computers are currently employed in defense systems to perform a wide range of functions in the areas of weapon control, command and control, communications, intelligence analysis, navigation, surveillance, target acquisition, sensors, electronic warfare, and combat support services. Over the years, the number of types of computers used in such systems has increased. This proliferation has become a serious problem in that it increases the cost of software development and support, maintenance, training, and the supply pipeline. Further, it impedes competition for technology upgrades and reduces overall battlefield survivability. Recognition by the Department of Defense and the military services of the need to curtail proliferation has resulted in efforts to standardize at various levels: high-order language and its software environment, instruction-set architecture (ISA), and hardware. With regard to the first level, the services are working together to standardize the Ada language. At the second level, the Navy has standardized on the ISA's of the AN/UYK-43 and AN/UYK-44. The Air Force has standardized on the MIL-STD-1750 ISA and both the Army and the Air Force have standardized on the MIL-STD-1862 (Nebula) ISA. Computer hardware standardization, due to different needs, has not extended across service lines. (Author).
Download or read book National Defense written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO was asked to: (1) evaluate the ongoing efforts of the military services to standardize their computers; (2) determine whether it is more cost effective to standardize the software using a high-level language, Ada; (3) determine whether the Department of Defense (DOD) should rely on the computer industry to provide the stimulus for computer innovations; and (4) determine what possible rationale exists for DOD not moving rapidly to implement Ada. GAO found that implementing DOD Instruction 5000.5X hinders the agency's ability to use current and anticipated advances in software and related hardware technology. GAO believes that DOD can accomplish its objectives more effectively by using these advances, which would be available by adopting Ada as the standard language for military computers. In two previous reports, GAO was critical of the services' commitment to unique military computers. GAO stated that the following conditions still exist: (1) the three services' continuing military computer efforts, the Navy AN/UYK-43/44 military computer program, the Army MCF, and the Air Force 1750A military computer programs are, in effect, implementations of Instruction 5000.5X; (2) eliminating DOD-owned military computer hardware architectures would encourage competition from a significant portion of the computer industry and, in addition, DOD would not be duplicating the commercial investment in computer technology advances; and (3) the use of Ada could alleviate DOD software problems and, at the same time, permit DOD to capitalize on hardware architectural advances.
Download or read book The Standardization Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Standard written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standardization and Data Management Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
Download or read book Department Of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards Numerical Canceled Listing Part IV July 2005 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army R D A written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DOD Instruction 5000 5X Standard Instruction Set Architectures for Embedded Computers written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting on a congressional request, GAO reviewed Department of Defense (DOD) plans to implement proposed DOD Instruction 5000.5X, a plan to curtail high costs resulting from support costs in the field. The proposed instruction would limit the number of architectures used for computer hardware and software design and development and would require ownership of standard architectures for military-embedded computers. Evaluation of the proposed instruction raised some serious issues that challenged its validity in the timeframe of the 1980's. Some of the more salient points for consideration were that: (1) aggressive pursuit of a standard high-order language could alleviate the software proliferation problem; (2) recent advances in computer technology have reduced the need for extensive support; (3) improved competition using militarized versions of commercial computers will open up competition to many firms that would not bid on specifications with DOD-owned architectures; (4) DOD ownership of architectures would seriously inhibit competition and therefore DOD would run the risk of getting locked into obsolete architectures; (5) architecture standardization would inhibit the efficient utilization of the new DOD programming language Ada and it will not be able to fully capitalize on the anticipated software cost savings Ada was designed to yield. GAO concluded that DOD could accomplish its objectives more effectively through exploitation of advances made with high-order language standardization and related hardware technology. Implementation of Instruction 5000.5X would preclude the DOD ability to make use of current and anticipated advances in software and related hardware technology.
Download or read book Military Handbook Mission Critical Computer Resources Software Support written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This standardization document, short-titled The Software Support Handbook, is an attempt to improve costs through standardization of related concepts and management procedures. The Software Support Handbook was developed by the Department of Defense with the assistance of military departments, federal agencies, and industry. It is a cornerstone document, covering pre- and post-deployment software support operations. In addition to a standard definition and detailed description of software support and the post-deployment software support and transition planning, post-deployment software support resource analysis, software support activity resource requirements planning, and post-deployment software support concept alternatives.
Download or read book Army RD A written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
