With the cheers of success still ringing in his ears, we got some quality time with Art Thompson, the technical project director, and Baumgartner's earliest collaborator on the Stratos mission.
If you can clearly define the specifications for your technical project, and you are willing and able to manage the efforts closely, then outsourcing it to a local or remote technical group beats hiring technical employees.
With the leadership of Red Bull Stratos technical project director, Art Thompson, a world-leading team of scientists, engineers and experts in aerospace medicine have been assembled to not only create the equipment necessary to help Felix reach his personal goal of freefall from 120, 000 feet, but also to have the ability to deliver valuable physiological data to the scientific community.
My technical models project that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will peak in March from below the 12, 600 level.
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It remains to be seen whether PwC will charge the Academy for the additional technical and project management support the firm probably provided this year to help design and implement the new electronic voting process and insure it was safe from hackers and inaccurate counts.
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The reality though is that most district CIOs spend much of their time today on technical issues, project management and a whole host of things that have little to do with enabling a 21st century education.
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The council and developers John Laing had worked together on the project since September 2009 and had managed to get planning permission and Network Rail technical approvals for the project.
"There were so many technical things on this project, from dealing with life support systems, to the capsule, " he explains.
Shell did most of the complex technical work on the project.
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Philip John, the technical director of the project, says the version used on Demon has the compressed air entering a single chamber within a wing's trailing edge.
But while Google's engineers provided technical support to the project, the actual photography and stitching together of the images was carried out by a scientists funded by the Catlin Group, a Bermuda-based insurance firm.
The Project provides technical assistance to develop skills in curriculum development and curriculum assessment, thereby increasing the value added of the new curriculum in terms of impact on students' knowledge acquisition and their achievement.
The system could be particularly useful for drones, self-driving cars or other mobile robots who have to do a lot of number crunching just to get round, said Mohanarajah Gajamohan, technical head of the project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
OneWorld Health chooses most projects strategically, based on a variety of factors including the disease area and identified therapeutic needs within that area, the technical feasibility of the project and its probability of success, its current development stage (e.g. discovery stage vs. clinical stage) and the potential impact.
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The two world-class teams that competed for the Eagle P3 project contract proposed many alternative technical concepts (ATCs), many of which are being incorporated into the project.
In a statement Defra has said it will "continue to provide commercial and technical advice" for the project.
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.
The Awards emphasize the importance of the conservation process, including technical achievements and participation in the project.
This project aims to give technical assistance to community conservation efforts in lower-income and under-served neighborhoods in the San Francisco area.
Aschheim conceded that he and his team have focused more on the technical demands of the Carbon Meter project than financial returns.
The technical workshop in Venice will involve project partners and end-users in order to jointly develop a concept for global geo-information products for risk prevention and preparedness through EO imagery elaboration.
One laptopmaker refused early on to get involved because, it claimed, success would require "ten or twenty" miracles, according to Mary Lou Jepsen, a former Intel executive now serving as the project's chief technical officer.
For instance, IBM is using Java as the technical heart of its San Francisco Project, a set of frameworks for building business applications, such as integrated financial systems, by combining pre-built components such as accounts payable and receivable modules.
The latest assessment of the extra costs follows a review of the project by the EC's technical partner, the European Space Agency.
"There is too much attention over and over on those brands that really have started to make changes" in the West, and not enough focus on lesser-known Asia brands that also serve giant markets, said Jill Tucker, chief technical adviser at Better Factories Cambodia, a project of the International Labour Organization that works to improve factory conditions in the Southeast Asian country.
In 2002, the original operator, Chevron cited low oil prices and technical challenges as reasons for not moving forward with the project.
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The Technical University of Denmark is also a collaborator on the project.
As part of this, the project will also assist in the reform of technical and vocational education and training to meet the aspirations of youth and make the system more relevant to labour market needs.
It resulted in the Space for Science project, which aims to facilitate scientific and technical cooperation in South-East Europe by providing virtual, collaborative and education services to academic and higher education institutions through fast academic networks and two-way satellite channels.
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