sustainment

The long term sustainment / archival aspects of this are really interesting.

It's the sustainment and economics of limiting the damage.

That is literally the only thing I care about with regards to sustainment/upgrading of your service.

Is it inherently negative for an IT group to say they want to focus on new development and not sustainment?

I don't agree that Drupal is vastly superior at all; maintenance and sustainment is far worse with the Drupal project.

Projecting production ramp up costs, operations, and sustainment are simply too complex to model effectively.

Just getting a biosphere-level of sustainment would be several orders of magnitude more expensive.

My understanding was that the purpose of the restructuring was to put more new development in the hands of actual company employee's with ongoing sustainment work shifted to the hands of contracted employee's.

Rather, the argument is that the cost of maintaining A-10 and its entire associated long tail of maintenance, sustainment, training pipelines, etc., does not provide enough marginal benefit to warrant its price tag.

However, the price of modernizing aircraft would drop by 79 percent while sustainment costs are basically cut in half, Roper wrote in the paper.> “I can’t make both ends of the life cycle go away; industry has to make a profit somewhere,” Roper said.

" I certainly hope her answer is contained in one of her future blog posts because to me ageing is one of those things that would not only be unethical to "cure" and commercialize, but also extremely problematic for the future sustainment of humanity.

How do we adjust to bring unskilled out-of-labor-pool people back into the labor pool in the event of a lack of sustainment and eventual failure?The modeling isn't hard, it's just tedious and it has to be done or BI will continue to be the butt of economic jokes.