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Society needs a continous flow of upgradding products and services which are responsive to needs, are reliable, cost-effective and safe. When this does not occur, excessive regulation and resulting stifled technology and production results. Excesses in both directions have occurred in other fields such as medicine, the automobile industry, petro-chemicals, motion pictures, building construction and pharmaceuticals. Disasters based on poor design and implementation in information processing have occurred in ballot-counting systems, law enforcement systems, billing systems, credit systems and dating services. Business has been undersold and oversold and sometimes reached the brink of ruin in its increasing reliance on computer systems. The only answer is a balanced degree of self-regulation. Such self-regulation for software systems is presented here.

An economic digital processor, LOGPRO#3, has been developed to serve as the system director for underwater vehicles such as torpedoes and mobile targets. LOGPRO's special instruction set allows the efficient use of instruction memory.