The recent energy bill opened the door to this resource by directing Interior to conduct a complete inventory of reserves along the shelf, including the use of cutting-edge 3-D seismic imaging techniques.

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But those same subtleties and nuances often elude federal policymakers and contracting officers, so it is quite possible for arrivistes to kluge together off-the-shelf technologies and barge in on competitions like the Army countermeasures program sounding like they are on the cutting edge of military technology.

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