[rs79bm]

Of course, but it got cancelled because of the inordinate amount of funding it required. I would like to see new concepts designed that can do things more effectively and efficiently. We can do that, but it does require a lot of work.

[LS]

It did not require an "inordinate" amount of funding, especially for the technological problems it tackled. But my point was that every DELAY and government STRETCH-OUT actually INCREASED the cost. I remember, after one stretched out budget came back, that the managers sat around a table cancelling a dozen tests, or pushing them back. Each time, they would note how much cancelling or pushing it back COST THE TAXPAYER and would shake their heads.