Cost and Capability: Cost concerns alone should dictate rejection of a completely ground-based defensive system in favor of one that uses both ground and space elements.
When a communications medium is both riding the Moore's Law cost-capability curve and tapping into a deep need, it's no fad.
He said the new service, which is being phased in from 1 October and will include three reserve helicopters, was focused on cost rather than capability.
An unmanned aircraft like N-UCAS solves both these problems at once, providing a cost-effective capability that allows the carriers to find and attack terrorists and insurgents, and also to counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance.
New software and sensors permit energy monitoring and control unprecedented in capability, or cost.
These twin forces rise at exponential rates toward infinite capability and zero cost.
Where off-the-shelf purchases by Japan of clearly superior U.S. military technology will afford at less cost and more quickly requisite capability, such should be the terms of the sale.
This will fill a needed gap in ship-to-shore communications and also provide for friends and family to be able to communicate onboard without high cost by giving direct dial capability between smartphones.
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The optional, extra-cost, 4G LTE cellular-data capability made it feel like I was always on a fast Wi-Fi connection.
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This ship is currently on cost and on schedule and if equipped with an ABM capability, could pre-empt China's anti-ship ballistic missile.
The winning configuration presumably decided on the basis of cost would then begin the long process towards operational capability.
But we're investing in the United States because we have the technology, we have the capability for manufacturing those products on a lowest-landed cost basis for markets outside of the United States.
Single-sourcing space transportation capability will just result in a new monopoly and will evolve the same cost structure as the old.
This capability provides access to new levels of ocean data, more pervasively and more cost effectively than from existing alternatives.
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So given the choice (and assuming they cost the same), it's either the M1 with its dual-SIM capability but qHD display, or the Q1 with the 720p display but with just one SIM slot.
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