FYI, The Army programming language policy statement Wesley just
distributed identifies essentially the SAME high-leverage front-end
decision factors which the 1996 NRC report recommended addressing in
an integrated decision process in what that report called the Software
Engineering Plan Review (SEPR).  The wording of the Army statement is
lifted almost directly from ASD Paige's April 29 policy memorandum
(doing a little Army tailoring, e.g., JPA -> ATA, adding "O&S" and
"reuse" I think [which was on the NRC list], and introducing a little
misspelling :-).  Paige's memo did not use the term "SEPR" but
established a major, early milestone for these same concurrent
decisions.  If you took Paige's surrounding statements and context as positive
for Ada in the DoD, this statement has the same effect within the Army. -- hh