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• c'mon, don't wory about all that code, many will write it over time... Remember back when better programmers made better money because they could make the old, less-powerful computers perform the intended operation with fewer lines of code? That standard of programming capability went out with more powerful computers and plug and play programming ... we'll just keep throwing more processing power and more memory at the computing problems. But who's fixing the bandwidth bottleneck and the security issues... we can't share info the NSA doesn't approve of, and by the time we explain why we need to share it, we already circumvented the network somehow...
  Ray Posted June 29, 2009 2:52 PM
• Who manages all that code? What happens when people who developed it retire/move on and nobody can change/update it? What happens when the code language becomes obsolete like COBOL? How did this grow from 33 million lines of code to 114 million? It sounds like the developer doesn't really know what they are doing anyway. Time for GAO software experts to have a look. How much code is duplicated/repetitive? How long does it take information to pass through all these lines? How are they linked? Does anyone have a good old fashion flow chart of this or is it far to complex for a simple flow chart? If that is the case, it is probably not well developed.
  Cindy Posted June 24, 2009 10:17 AM
• If you think 95 million lines of code and 114 million is much --- wait until it is actually finished it might be double that!! The approach of writing software as has always been done for the past three decades ...i.e. archaic way MUST lead to that. You expect that one day that no change orders will happen? What is not even calculated is when this system is in action. How fast can you change it!! How many more millions will it take, will you be able to stop a war until code is written to fix a bug or adapt it to a new situation that was not previously designed? I am not sure how the logic is following here. Unless DOD changes the 3 decade old approach with a dynamic software systems like DiBase -- a patent pending technology that targets supporting changes in dynamic environments, it will continue as is!! Innovation is not using the same old code writing paradigm and expect to magically achieve a superior dynamic unmanned system.
  Wafik Farag Posted June 24, 2009 12:16 AM