A decade of service to the Ada community, and still counting!
Anyone involved in Ada and software engineering since 1986 has probably been touched by products from the Ada Software Engineering Education and Training (ASEET) Team. Even if you haven't, the chances are that some of the training and educational products you have been exposed to had some of their roots in the ASEET Team. Over the past decade, the ASEET Team has produced literally thousands of slides of course material, has been involved in numerous DoD reports, and has conducted several hundred courses, lectures, workshops, tutorials, and symposiums.
Founded in 1986, the ASEET Team grew out of the Software Engineering Working Group (SEWG). Funded by the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO), the ASEET Team was initially chartered to promote the growth of Ada and software engineering within the DoD, other Federal agencies, and academia. The "foot soldiers" of Ada, the ASEET team was composed of DoD volunteers (both civil service and active duty) -- members who willing gave their time to promote Ada and software engineering wherever and whenever an audience willing to listen could be found.
Currently, the ASEET Team has a total of over 100 years of Ada/Software Engineering experience, and over 50 years of academic and training experience. All team members have technical degrees, and approximately 40% of team members have Ph.D.s. Their expertise encompasses real-time flight systems, nuclear reactors, command and control, simulation, information systems, and supercomputing.
The track record !
The ASEET Team's goal was not to compete with commercial organizations; there were sufficient companies available for in-depth education and training. Instead, they have provided a {nucleus} to organizations that wanted experts to come in and start the Ada and software engineering effort rolling. Their role has been to help Ada proponents bootstrap their organizations. Over the last 10 years, the Team have produced over 25 different courses, ranging from "Introduction to Ada" (and now Ada 95!) to more advanced technical courses covering real-time programming, reuse, management techniques and transition, and object-oriented programming.
In addition to assisting Ada-insertion efforts at such schools at the University of West Virginia, the University of California-Northridge (and numerous others), they have also provided assistance at all Service academies and all military training centers.
Philosophy!
The ASEET Team never views Ada an ends in itself: rather, Ada is viewed as the best tool for implementing software engineering concepts and principles.