I remember reading Mac Rubel's June 1998 FoxPro Advisor article entitled "U.S. Military's Secret Weapon -- Visual FoxPro!" about the Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation (JFAST). I have never seen a JFAST demo but it along with the Eurotunnel project are two of the most impressive VFP apps.

An in depth article on CFAST and how Brian Jones created it would certainly go a long way in showing the power of VFP and would make an excellent success story. Hey Ken, any chance of showcasing CFAST on the main VFP web site?

Here are some excerpts from the DevCon 2002 coverage on CFAST:

Day 2

One of the most interesting presentations was "CFAST and Visual Foxpro" by Brian
Jones. CFAST stands for Collaborative Force-Building Analysis Sustainment and 
Transportation". It allows the milirtary planners collaboratively construct major 
military forces and sustainment, plan theyr deployment and assess different 
scenarios. To meet the challenge of reducing the operations planning time by 50%, 
CFAST employs such key Microsoft technologies as Visual FoxPro, .Net, Share Point, 
SQL Server, Terminal server, Conference server and Exchange server. This is a 
prototype system developed for the Department on Defence. One of its parts is 
JFAST, that many of you may already know. I personally saw the demonstration of one 
of JFAST versions at Palm Springs Devcon in 1999 and can say that its great 
graphical interface improved even more. Different parts of this project collaborate 
with each other online, and the part that plans the operations passes the data to 
JFAST which plays different scenarios for it. Components of this project are 
written using different languages - VB.NET, Visual FoxPro C++, SQL Server, etc. We 
were shown the JFAST v 8.1 Beta, which is a VFP application. Further details are 
classified.:) 

Day 3

The very interesting announcement was made yesterday by Brian Jones at the session 
on CFAST project (that I wrote about in yesterday's report). Brian said that the 
development of this project was just approved for the next 13 years. Note, that 
significant part of this project is JFAST application written in VFP. I would not 
encourage you to read too much between the lines of this statement (something like 
that VFP future is guaranteed for the next 13 years). This is just the fact that a 
very big multibillion dollars project will continue to use VFP in a very important 
application for the mission critical military purposes. This application may be 
used also in the civil and humaniatarian aid purposes, where relocation planning of 
the huge number of the resources is required. It was noted, that one of the big 
advantages of using VFP in this project is its unique ability to call user-defined 
functions from within SQL statements. So, in any case, it is something to tell 
about to the clients or IT managers for their question "Why VFP?". Brian noted that 
they will need VFP developers for this project, by the way.