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It depends - some agencies you can apply directly without doing a phase 1. Others you need talk to the TPOC of the Phase 1 to find out the process or you have to be invited.

In the current environment - I would contact the TPOC - it could just be stuck in limbo.

SBIRs have been mucked up since last fall. The program lapsed and it just got reauthorized for certain departments. Without that reauth only those who had phase 1's could apply for phase 2's.

Ada 2022 5 months ago

We used it for a new Defense/Aerospace projects. Language-wise it's fine although verbose. Intent was to separate similar IP so there was no claim of cross contamination. Built-in threading and a robust standard library is nice.

Tool-wise - refactoring was a bit of a pain.

FWIW - I work in aerospace. I believe this is talking about their FAA Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs). They are employed directly by the company or are consultants - they are subject matter experts in their domain. They act as the FAA delegate within the company. They generally have authority that goes well beyond the typical employee or QA person.

The ones I have worked with have no problem telling management to go pound sand when they are pushing schedule.

^This - we're trying to use one to partially automate some system engineering type activities.

It's great for reviews where any given reviewer could be expected to have a misunderstanding of certain details or skip a section (RAG somewhat helps this) - but it's frustrating for artifact generation where missing details cascade through the project.

As great as the technology (right now) it seems so far from reliable business process automation.

Alternatively - you can get an export license for information to the particular person. Kind of like a TAA for a foreign employee. Previous employer had a European EW expert in the US office temporarily. Still not fast and lots of paperwork and limitations.

MISRA C 3 years ago

Safety critical in aerospace uses MCDC as the gold standard for testing.

MISRA C 3 years ago

MISRA C++ lags quite a bit relative to C++'s evolution over the last 20 years. It's closer to JSF C++ style guide.

MISRA C 3 years ago

FWIW - usually when interfacing with foreign code like that you match what the foreign code's types than convert it afterwards. Then add an assert [sizeof(t1) >= sizeof(int)] or better a static_assert.

The intent isn't to make your code bullet-proof. It's to move towards a subset of the language with well-defined semantics.

Any safety critical coding standard work I've done always had a waiver process for both MISRA and mccabe-like complexity requirements - the intent is there's always some point where there is diminish returns for compliance.