AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) was a

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company founded in

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Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ...

in 1969 by several veterans of M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Laboratory who had worked on the software for

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's Apollo Program including the

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. The company specialized in

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technology. It was responsible for the design and implementation of the

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programming language, used to write the Space Shuttle PASS (Primary Avionics Software System). It participated in the design effort leading to the

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programming language, designed the Red language, one of the finalists in the design competition, and wrote one of the first production-quality Ada compilers. The large-scale Ada 95 revision of the language was designed at Intermetrics. Intermetrics merged with Whitesmiths Ltd. in December 1988. In 1997, Intermetrics merged with

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developer

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In 1998, Intermetrics acquired

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, and changed its name to 'AverStar'. AverStar merged with the

Titan Corporation Titan Corporation was a United States-based company that started as a telecommunications defense contractor with its headquarters located in San Diego, California. It was acquired by L-3 Communications on June 3, 2005 for $2.65 billion and oper ...

in March, 2000; Titan was acquired by L-3 Communications in 2005.

References

External links

{{Portal, Business
A history of Intermetrics
some subjective notes on Intermetrics in the 1970s and 1980s

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