§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his reply,Official Report, 27 April, column 663, whether he will make a statement on the policy of allowing UKSL Ltd. to choose the programming languages for the IUKADGE command and control computer ICCS and this policy's relationship with the departmental policy of standardisation on the use of the programming language ADA as the means to ensure reliability and maintainability of software; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. SainsburyThe IUKADGE ICCS is a largely NATO-funded project and therefore subject to NATO policy direction; the NATO financial authorities, in approving the NATO contribution to IUKADGE ICCS costs, directed that existing NATO air defence ground environment (NADGE) software was to be re-used to the greatest extent possible. Neither the MOD nor NATO formally adopted ADA as the single preferred language standard for real-time defence computer applications until more than three years after the award of the IUKADGE ICCS contract to UKSL.