Defense Computer Resources Technology Plan.

This is the second edition of the plan it was prepared with the full cooperation of the three Services, DARPA, DCA, and NSA. Its revised outline provides a more coherent and meaningful grouping of efforts, clarifies the intent of some subdivisions, and adds new categories. The scope has been expanded to include hardware technology needs. All parts of the text have been considerably expanded to provide more comprehensive descriptions of problems, issues, and RD directions. In each RD area, specific DARPA, Service, and OSD initiatives are identified. In some areas efforts are building up and becoming better focused, but in others present budgets are inadequate to allow meaningful efforts to be started. Examples of developed areas are support for standard high order languages, high order language modernization and convergence Ada, distributed systems technology, and the development of standard militarized computers. Key areas in which deficiencies still exist include multilevel computer security, error-resistant systems, standardization of inputoutput and network interfaces, and specification of standard reusable software functions.