



Who's Using Ada?

Real-World Projects

Powered by the Ada Programming Language

November 2014

Michael B. Feldman

chair, SIGAda Education Working Group

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Computer Science

The George Washington University

Washington, DC 20052 USA

mfeldman@gwu.edu (Internet)

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman



You are visitor #

What this is: This is the most comprehensive known catalog of systems, in operation or under active development, in which Ada is used at least to a significant degree.



What this is not: This is not a catalog of Ada-oriented software tools, libraries, bindings, and the like. The emphasis here is on applications designed for some end-user community, not for software developers. There are many, many Ada developer artifacts, and several excellent developer-oriented catalogs, including the Ada Information Clearinghouse, AdaPower, and (especially for open-source projects) the Ada section of SourceForge; these catalogs are all actively maintained and it is unnecessary and undesirable for me to duplicate those efforts.



The Ada community has much to gain from a comprehensive list like this; I need your help in maintaining it! Please e-mail additions or corrections to me -- including web links for the unlinked projects -- at mfeldman@gwu.edu. I respect the confidentiality of my sources.

This page is intended for informational purposes and I hope it will be widely read. Please feel free to link to it from other WWW sites. Please do NOT put electronic copies on other sites, as this will cause horrendous maintenance problems. I try to update it as soon as possible after I receive information, so it is in everyone's interest not to proliferate out-of-date electronic copies.

While this page is intended mainly for web browsing, it is OK to make verbatim hard copies. Please keep the maintenance problem in mind and make sure to update your print copies now and then.



For web-development fans: I maintain this page on an Apple Mac Book Pro, using the Composer module of the open-source Mozilla SeaMonkey.







Air Traffic Management Systems

Commercial Aviation

Airbus 320, 330, 340

Airbus 380



Beechjet 400A (US business jet)

Beech Starship I (US business turboprop)

Beriev BE-200 (Russian forest fire patrol plane)

Boeing 737-200, -400, -500, -600, -700, -800

Boeing 747-400

Boeing 757, 767



Boeing 777

Boeing 787

Boeing 787 Air Conditioning Control Unit

Canadair Regional Jet

Embraer CBA-123 and CBA-145 (Brazilian-made regional airliners)

Fokker F-100 (Dutch DC-9-size airliner - American Airlines flies these)

Ilyushin 96M (Russian jetliner)

Lockheed-Martin Hercules "hurricane chaser"

Saab 2000

Tupolev TU-204 (Russian jetliner)

BARCO Avionics Control Display Manager

Railway Transportation

Commercial Rockets

Ariane 4 and 5

Atlas V

Delta II

Delta IV



Commercial Imaging Space Vehicles

Communication and Navigational Satellites and Receivers

Hughes 601 and 702 Series

INMARSAT - voice and data communications to ships and mobile communications

Intelsat VII

NSTAR (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph)

PanAmSat (South American Intelsat-like consortium)

United States Coast Guard Differential GPS Control Station/Data Analyzer

ESA/Alcatel-SEL GPS receiver

TDRSS Ground Terminals - NASA

Data Communications

Nortel Canada

Innocon Airborne 4-Channel Modem

Scientific Space Vehicles

Desktop and Web Applications

Banking and Financial Systems

Information Systems

Commercial Shipboard Control Systems

Television/Entertainment Industry

Canal+ Technologies (Digital TV Broadcasting and Interactive TV)

Vision Systems Video Security System

Times Square Studios sign, 1500 Broadway, New York City

Medical Industry

Alplog biomedical instrumentation

JEOL Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Coulter Hematology Analyzer

Tegimenta Medical Analysis Systems

General Industry

Military Applications