British Airways was forced to abandon its plans of moving its entire Heathrow operations to Terminal 5 in just three days in April, after its baggage system ground to a halt, resulting in chaos in the terminal's opening days.
So, for example, having an operational Airborne Laser system and a ground based system give the sea based interceptor more timely and accurate information with which to do its job.
Whether the U.S. system of ground-based interceptors are the right response quickly became a matter of debate Friday.
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The system includes ground surveillance radars, video cameras with motion detection and "smart" fencing, according to Raytheon's website.
Precise satellite navigation could remove the need for aircraft to fly longer routes that were partly designed around the old system of ground-radio beacons.
' This report shall address the engineering steps that would be needed to develop a sea-based NMD system to supplement the ground-based NMD system.
The governors are agitating for change, trying to rebuild the system from the ground up.
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Every commercial flight that takes off from the United States is currently monitored by a radar-based ground system that has been in place since WWII.
Combined with the company's innovative ground system, the new system is transforming the economics and quality of service offered by satellite Internet service.
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That means expanding our homeland missile defense system Ground-based Midcourse Defense to an East Coast site, something that Congress has told the Pentagon to study.
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Investigators have attributed the failed 1999 Climate Orbiter mission to human error: The flight software used metric units while the ground system that wrote the code used Imperial measures.
Cost and Capability: Cost concerns alone should dictate rejection of a completely ground-based defensive system in favor of one that uses both ground and space elements.
Just a few minutes ago, NATO signed a contract to acquire the Alliance Ground Surveillance system.
There is a bicycle effect in trade: failure to go forward creates a risk that the existing system topples to the ground.
Yortsos said the system will break new ground, much like the first commercially available computer in the United States, the Universal Automatic Computer (Univac).
When a known killer is caught, but innocent witnesses are still killed and perjured testimony is conjured up from nowhere, the entire justice system is on shaky ground.
The crash - the worst in the 33 years of the Metro system - happened above ground between Fort Totten and Takoma at 1700 local time (2200 BST).
As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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The Department of Defense is using a tactical ground reporting system so soldiers can report people and events they encounter in the field, in effect crowdsourcing information from disparate sources so other teams can understand what they may encounter.
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Some of them also see Myanmar as a valuable asset to ASEAN: it is the world's largest exporter of teak and has important offshore oil and gas deposits (though it is also true that the junta has run large parts of the economy, including the financial system, into the ground).
Such systems include all phases of the Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defenses in Europe, the modernization of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, and the continued development of the two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor as a technological and strategic hedge.
Airlines have been split on whether to go with a ground-based system or with satellite-based systems.
Deterrence: The first phase system should be comprised of ground and space-based sensors and interceptor systems.
The other panel we can see in this image is the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS).
Indeed, while Microsoft continues to ponder a ship date, other operating system vendors are hitting the ground running.
He said no long term reform of the system could get off the ground, without an increase in the basic state pension.
Yet the UN has no monitoring system in place on the ground to prevent illicit oil exports going out, or suspect imports coming in.
The re-instituted missile ground-based system plan will put 14 more long-range interceptors in Fort Greely, Alaska by 2017 to supplement the 30 already existing on the West Coast.
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