Unlike lead acid or other advanced battery technologies, Nanophosphate EXT is designed to maintain long cyclelife at extreme high temperatures and deliver high power at extreme low temperatures.
Just like a building contractor needs to follow blueprints, building codes, and inspector guidelines, security needs to be baked into the software development lifecycle so that these issues can be identified when software is being designed, built, and inspected.
The argument could also be made that delaying construction of the new Ford class of carriers might actually increase the long-term cost of carriers, since the next-generation carrier is designed to reduce crewing requirements by hundreds of personnel, and manpower expenses are the biggest driver of life-cycle costs for aircraft carriers.