This reduces the number of different types of aircraft operated by the Defense Department and their associated life-cycle costs.
The new carrier is also designed to significantly reduce maintenance costs from those of the current Nimitz class of carriers, another major driver of life-cycle costs.
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Opting to procure a less capable medium-lift replacement that is more manpower intensive, and which is projected to have greater life cycle costs, is neither operationally or fiscally responsible.
Offshore wind projects are evaluated in terms of their initial installed capital cost (ICC) as well as their life-cycle costs, which are often described as the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).
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The latter item is especially costly, since most of the life-cycle costs of jet engines are incurred after production, as parts are repeatedly repaired and replaced to keep the engines in a state of high readiness.
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When life-cycle costs are compared, natural gas is currently a more economical decision than flex-fuel powered vehicles, although both are more expensive than gasoline at current figures (keep in mind that these dynamics could change due to oil shocks or increased demand for traditional fuels both real risks).
The argument could also be made that delaying construction of the new Ford class of carriers might actually increase the long-term cost of carriers, since the next-generation carrier is designed to reduce crewing requirements by hundreds of personnel, and manpower expenses are the biggest driver of life-cycle costs for aircraft carriers.
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The shorter the order-to-delivery cycle, the lower the costs of carrying stocks of finished cars.
This unwillingness and failure to segment the Chinese market has led to an ever more vicious cycle of rising user acquisition costs for startups.
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The kinds of analysis that report massive, sustained, falling costs for renewable plants often assume that capital costs are recovered in steady-state fashion over the full, rated, life-cycle of the machinery, when in fact investors in these systems always strive to recover their costs much sooner to beat the diminishing returns that set in once two-thirds of the life-cycle is spent.
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Since deploying a Microsoft Dynamics solution, Computer Aid has cut its billing cycle in half and reduced ERP support costs by 60 percent.
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Professor Ledger argues that if only one embryo was transferred per IVF cycle, and hence avoid higher neonatal care costs, it would free up more money for more couples to have free IVF.
The exuberance of recent months might turn out to be well founded, if the fourth quarter of 2012 turns out to be the low-point of Europe's recession, and falling borrowing costs start to produce a virtuous cycle from higher confidence to improving growth.
But with reasonably safe profits from submarine optics, IP routing and Services, we believe the company is in a position to generate between 1% and 4% operating margins every year going forward, which should turn, over the cycle, into positive cash generation before restructuring costs.
The quicker production cycle reduces energy use and could ultimately reduce component costs.
There might however be a margin impact this quarter due to the high component costs at the start of any product cycle, exacerbated by the number of new products Apple has launched this holiday season.
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In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
The challenge is not just about keeping down borrowing costs but how to revive economies that increasingly look locked into a cycle of decline.
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Over the past few years, Ryan has implemented an improved methodology for product delivery at Sprint which has reduced product cycle times and saved the company millions of dollars annually in rework and development costs.
Mr Schmieding thinks that Germany's high costs relative to what it produces help to explain why unemployment has risen from cycle to cycle since the 1960s.
We broke the cycle of dependency, reestablished welfare as the safety net it was meant to be and cut costs significantly.
Activists argued that if all those who needed AIDS drugs could get them via this kind of funding, the very increase in the scale of production would drive drug costs down, which would in turn fuel further market growth, creating a virtuous cycle.
Still, the fact that these industry giants retained the highest rating calmed investors, who had worried that downgrades could trigger a vicious cycle, a fore-selling of bonds, leading to more losses for the big banks and increased credit costs for consumers, city government and others.
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