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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Both of these acquisitions came quickly on the heels of Lenovo's announcement of a global partnership with EMC, forming a server technology development program to help drive innovation and extend Lenovo's capabilities in x86 industry-standard servers.

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Management support services include acquisition planning, information technology systems development, and program management.

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Rather than continuing to spend energy and investment on raw technology development, it created a program building on the innovations of others, providing then the true value add of integration, design and branding that has made each product extension a success.

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NASA's Game Changing Development Program, part of NASA's Space Technology Program, funds the X1 work.

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Technology is now available as a result of the research and development done under the SDI program to meet this requirement quite quickly.

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David Victor is an adjunct senior fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of the program on energy and sustainable development at Stanford University.

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