The findings from the report concluded that a "technology failure at the time adversely impacted on the information received by the third umpire Daryl Harper while making his decision".
No wonder, then, that, in a new survey of business executives, respondents overwhelmingly said that, of the potential crises that could impact their company, a data breach or technology failure would have the most negative impact, followed by a natural disaster such as hurricane or earthquake.
Gingrich has intriguing - if not entirely original - ideas about the impact of new communications technology, the failure of the American education system, and the role of welfare payments in undermining the work ethic.
No example of the failure of technology is more convincing than that of DEC.
The crashes were not due to technical competence or a failure of technology.
The latter proved a somewhat astonishing reminder of forgotten lessons about nuclear power risks, unique to that technology: A failure of one power plant in an isolated location can create a contagion in countries far away, and even where somewhat different variants of that technology are in use.
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The company blamed faulty technology for leading to the failure to find and turn over all the requested documents as quickly as possible.
But the biggest reason for its failure is that the technology was not deployed and utilized in an appropriate time and place.
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On one side is the security perspective: the new technology is unproven, unpredictable and could result in an expensive failure.
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Creative failure, bloated costs, the emergence of new technology and new competitors.
"The GAO is prepared to assist the Bureau throughout the process to ensure that this technology upgrade becomes a model program instead of another government IT failure like those which GAO found at other agencies, " the letter said.
Some of the national security chairmen also have jurisdictional questions about the sweeping scope of S.1712, and concerns about the bill's failure to recognize Israel's adherence to the Missile Technology Control Regime.
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Still more significant has been the failure to grasp the vital importance of investment in the very latest defense technology.
We now have to reassess our defence spending, which has been cut back too far: Still more significant has been the failure to grasp the vital importance of investment in the very latest defence technology.
History is full of arrogance preceding failure in all kinds of enterprises, but nowhere more than in the world of technology.
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Like all of us, she has humorous idiosyncrasies (leading a technology firm while still using a pen and paper notebook), she has felt like a failure (divorce at a young age) and success has not always come easily (arriving at Harvard feeling woefully unprepared relative to her peers).
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"Working with internal and external experts in battery technology, we have proposed a comprehensive set of solutions designed to significantly minimize the potential for battery failure while ensuring that no battery event affects the continued safe operation of the airplane, " said Conner.
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The Center for Security Policy today questioned the Bush Administration's failure to put a proposed acquisition by the Japanese firm Komatsu of a unique American high technology capability on hold, pending a thorough investigation of its national security implications and appropriate decisions concerning steps needed to ensure that such a capability remains available to the United States.
Manufacturing firms that gauge their success and failure on short-term sales numbers are actually reporting on their capacity to leverage research, technology, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and other functions over time in the context of the current economy.
The Webster report on the Fort Hood shooting identified numerous problems in several areas including information sharing, failure to follow up on leads, failure of FBI headquarters to settle differences between the two field offices working the Hasan leads and computer technology issues.
"Failure to do so will irreversibly undermine the NSA and its ability to perform in a transformed global information technology arena, " said the Committee.
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