[Myrddin]

A project started at my company in 1993. It was a classified DoD project that mandated use of ADA. By 1998, the project had consumed $75 million and produced a hodge podge of trash. The project required 2167 documentation standards. That meant almost 10 pages of documentation for every page of source code.

DoD became impatient in 1998 and directed the project manager to switch to C++. He dutifully obeyed and turned his lame cadre of Ada "engineers" into an army of feckless C++ hackers. The project is still in the toilet today. The original "senior" "Ada engineer" disappeared back into the hole from whence he had appeared.

Thankfully, my total involvement in that fiasco was just a couple project review meetings. Yuck. I'm not sure that I would be anxious to be an F-22 pilot.

[Spruce]

Sounds like you folk ran into that nasty ISO-900x certification. What a bunch of crap that is still turning-out to be.