The pace of technological development is making formats and reading devices become obsolescent in less than a decade.

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The arsenal that the weapons complex and laboratories support is comprised of increasingly obsolescent arms and their delivery platforms.

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For instance, we have very old and, in some cases, actually obsolescent weapon systems - armored vehicles, ships, aircraft, missiles and nuclear weapons.

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Its Voice of America radio broadcasts to Pakistan are hampered by obsolescent transmitters in Tajikistan and it has no TV broadcasts in Urdu or other native dialects.

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Never mind that the Kremlin's obsolescent radar is not designed for the kind of sophisticated discrimination of warheads from decoys inherent in the proposed, modern American system.

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Were Mr. Gates actually to do so, he would condemn the Corps to going to war from the sea for the foreseeable future with obsolescent amphibious vehicles, or not at all.

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They are often obsolescent programs still protecting against the evils of the 1930s, maintained today because the intricacies of the process appeal to government workers seeking job security and to existing bars and restaurants hoping to avoid competition.

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Each has recognized the need for modernization of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, enhanced "stewardship" of the obsolescent weapons that will likely continue to comprise the bulk of the arsenal for years to come and sustained investment in the infrastructure - both human and industrial - needed to perform such tasks.

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