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This paper reports an update to the results of its one year study conducted by RCI in 1986 for five of its clients to determine the impact of Ada™ on software cost, productivity and quality. The paper begins by discussing the study's goals and the approach used to realize them. It then summarizes the actual experience over 41 projects which delivered over 15 million lines of Ada™ code for a variety of applications, mostly real-time. It presents facts and figures drawn from a detailed statistical analysis of the resulting Ada™ cost, productivity and quality database in the following five areas: learning curve impacts, distribution of effort, error rates, cost and productivity experience and reuse potential. These data and the experience they encompass are then used to develop conclusions and recommendations relative to formulating Ada™ cost estimating models and realistic transition, training and investment strategies.