As long as we must rely upon nuclear weapons, it is imprudent and irresponsible to undermine the various component parts of the infrastructure that permit such weapons tobeeffective, reliableand safe.
With budget cuts looming, the U.S. government should focus its resources on programs and systems that have proven tobeeffective, and this includes the more reliable alternative to MEADS: the modernized Patriot missile.
The traditional enterprise and client compute markets will continue to demand high capacity storage solutions and will be best served by hard disk drives, where manufacturers compete on the ability to deliver cost effective, reliableand energy efficient mass storage devices.