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.

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These transition processes will include an agency's capital planning and investment control processes, agency EA planning processes, and agency systems life cycle methodologies.

WHITEHOUSE: CIRCULAR NO. A-130 Revised

Agencies must incorporate security into the architecture of their information and systems to ensure that security supports agency business operations and that plans to fund and manage security are built into life-cycle budgets for information systems.

WHITEHOUSE: CIRCULAR NO. A-130 Revised

It describes the "current architecture" and "target architecture" to include the rules and standards and systems life cycle information to optimize and maintain the environment which the agency wishes to create and maintain by managing its IT portfolio.

WHITEHOUSE: CIRCULAR NO. A-130 Revised

"An air-conditioning unit is just the physical manifestation of the Carnot Cycle - which is talking about heat exchange between two closed systems, " he droned.

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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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The fact that people have used industrial chemistry to short-circuit the nitrogen cycle, by making fertilisers out of nitrogen in the air at a rate which greatly exceeds what natural systems can manage, has real environmental effects.

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