Systems developed by the Army frequently have hit dead-ends as a result of technical, cost or other factors.
Read this case study about how poorly assessing technical risk cost one company millions of dollars and months of delay.
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Great technical talent, lower cost salaries compared to white hot Silicon Valley, and less competitive bidding for deals (although this is starting to change).
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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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"The evaluation concluded that any undergrounding of the main 400kV line cannot be justified on the grounds of cost, technical difficulties and very limited environmental benefits, " its report said.
For platform suppliers, AMD is looking to Sledgehammer to minimize the impact on motherboard design and decrease the cost of technical support required for both a 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
The reforms will also move funding and patients toward primary care physicians instead of high-cost specialists and toward community care instead of expensive institutions, through technical supports, grants and financing for high-cost items such as health information technology.
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She identified the four major barriers for women: cost, culture, technical literacy and perceived lack of need.
The plug-and-play solution minimizes engineering effort and civil requirements and lowers initial cost, scheduling, technical, permitting and financing risks with its factory-tested components and GE warranties.
What they failed to take into account was the formidable progress that textiles were making at the same time in terms of cost, convenience and technical possibilities.
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In those cases you gain the advantage of highly skilled technical and operational expertise at zero net cost.
Tech hiring has picked up in places like Silicon Valley, New York and DC, but consistently the fastest growth in science, engineering and technical jobs has been in low-cost states such as North Dakota, Virginia, New Mexico, Utah and Texas.
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Michael Finger of the World Bank and Philip Schuler of the University of Maryland estimate that implementing commitments to improve trade procedures and establish technical and intellectual-property standards can cost more than a year's development budget for the poorest countries.
If the commission mandates 911 on the VoIP industry, it could increase the cost of service and pose significant technical hurdles, they say.
Yozo Kami, Honda's fuel cell chief, promises to solve all of fuel cell vehicles' technical problems by 2012 and to have the cost of fuel cells at "Accord-level" by 2020.
He even wants to take Medicare spending decisions out of the political arena and put them in the hands of the docs and technical nerds, who actually understand where real cost savings can be found.
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The big challenges are the high cost of a conversion plant and their technical complexity.
They will still look to contractors for a wide range of professional and technical needs, but in a more prudent, cost-effective manner.
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Each technology discussion includes technical and market status, costs of energy production, cost trends, policy environment, future projections, and analysis of prospects and hurdles to expansion.
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As an American creation, the internet embodies decentralisation and openness on a technical level that has translated into free expression and low-cost access in both political and economic spheres.
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But Whitmarsh, who admits McLaren "went down a technical blind alley" and "made a number of mistakes that cost us dearly", insists they are now back on track.
He's hired 3, 000 new technical staff and is schooling them in the finer points of procurement, cost estimation and reserve classification.
In technical terms, the process starts with the transformation of organic material using cost effective, intermediate technologies, into a highly digestive diet for pigs, ducks and chicken.
The return should reflect such risk factors as the project's technical complexity, the agency's management capacity, the likelihood of cost overruns, and the consequences of under- or non-performance.
It has demonstrated that it understands the technical challenges and seems better able to drill these ultra deep wells at lower cost and with a fine safety profile than the major oil companies can.
Dow contributes the technical know-how for producing plastics and chemicals, while its partners provide low-cost feedstocks and access to new markets.
Disruptive innovation requires three things: a change in technology that simplifies a complicated technical problem, a business model that can take those simplified solutions to the market at low cost and a supporting cast of suppliers and distributors to reinforce the disruptor in the middle.
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