The Hanford clean-up "has been plagued by massive cost and schedule problems - and almost no progress, " according to the report.
This approach has resulted in many cost and schedule over-runs, aborted implementations, and overly complex systems that are not used to their full potential.
The new mega-rocket, called the Space Launch System, passed a series of reviews that laid out the technical, performance, cost and schedule requirements for the heavy-lift booster.
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Consequently, they carry a high risk of performance failure, cost increases and schedule delays.
The program has faced schedule delays and cost overruns in the past.
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Interestingly, the disparity in favor of a space-based defense could be even more dramatic but for cost-growth associated with schedule delays -- delays driven by congressionally imposed budget cuts intended to hamstring the Brilliant Pebbles development program.
Having thousands of fans on the pitch is not just costly in terms of insurance, it's also wrecking the playing surface which will now have to be replaced ahead of schedule in 2010 at a cost of 1m euro.
The hybrid firm announced Thursday that the process of merging all the viscera of Sprint and Nextel Communications is ahead of schedule--and it upped the cost savings it foresees from the deal.
The NAO report earlier this month found that hazardous waste was being stored in "run-down" buildings, and that the cost of decommissioning was spiralling out of control and was behind schedule.
Thanks to design changes, testing problems, and supply-chain issues, the fighter program is now years behind schedule, (delivery to start in 2016) and its cost has risen by more than 50 percent from original estimates.
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