Risk analysis is a basic requirement of the standard, as is the establishment of a security policy.

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But a Johnson Space Center source who asked not to be identified said there's a sufficient amount of lunar material on which scientific analysis has been completed to satisfy the requirement the transfer would not compromise such studies.

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The first, prepared by the Institute for Defense Analysis, concluded that the United States did not have a military requirement for more stealth bombers.

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The Navy, driven to meet a near-term requirement contained in a dramatically changing national ballistic missile defense (BMD) strategy, has, without any supporting analysis, chosen to back-fit and concurrently build more of the 30-year-old-design Aegis Arleigh Burke class DDG51 destroyers with only the most basic BMD capability.

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