Case Study: A-7E Project

13 December 2021 by Phillip JohnstonIn the mid-1970s, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. launched a project to redesign the flight software the A-7E aircraft using the latest in computer science research and technology being developed in academia and laboratories. The purpose was to create a convincing demonstration of the value of these techniques in real-world applications. The original A-7 aircraft was considered a successful program because it worked reliably. However, it was expensive to maintain due to common software problems: it barely met its time and space limitations it was not fully understood by the maintenance personnel …