It will replace two single-role types providing both improved operational flexibility and cost savings.

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No other aid agency-foreign or domestic-can match its purposeful mandate, its operational flexibility and its potential muscle.

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"This provides Israel with greater operational flexibility, since we now have another set of eyes on a target, " Chaim Eshed, the director of Israel's military space programme, told The Jerusalem Post.

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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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Given the high irreversibility of CCS investments, the high degree of uncertainty (technical, commercial, political, regulatory) and the operational flexibility to defer the investment, firms tend to be reluctant in making any investments in energy solutions.

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If our leaders truly believe in the defense transformation they so often espouse in public, let them prove it by ensuring that our nation's airlift fleet has the numbers of modern aircraft to assure the needed world-wide operational flexibility and capability, and the funding required to provide them.

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"Made in America" advanced battery technology and electric military vehicles would reduce fuel demand and cost, afford tactical flexibility, and decrease operational risks.

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