There is still Ada work in the Washington metro area. Some defense related some not. NASA/Goddard, the FAA Air Traffic Management, and of course many DoD contracts. If you're interested in working in this area, contact me and I'll fill you in. I may even be able to find you a job through AdaSoft where I work. :-) You don't see many ads in the local papers. My belief is that many in this area have found that it's easier to hire someone with application domain expertise and have them learn Ada on-the-job or at one of the area colleges. IMO, It's easy to learn Ada. It's much harder to learn to be a good software engineer or application domain expert. Many of you know of the job posting site at GWU http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~adajobs/ There have been job postings as recently as 11/30/01. Unfortunately, during a recent reorganization of their site the link to the actual job description got broken. Hopefully, the problem will be resolved soon. Rush Kester Charter Member Team-Ada Software Systems Engineer AdaSoft at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. email: [log in to unmask] phone: (240) 228-3030 (live M-F 9:30am-4:30pm, voicemail anytime) fax: (240) 228-6779 http://hometown.aol.com/rwkester/myhomepage/index.html