Ironically, the Soviets have developed first-strike capability, forcing us to do the same.
Mr. Bush had lunch at the White House on Monday with Mr. Kay, whose acknowledgments in the last 10 days that American intelligence agencies overestimated Iraq's capabilities forced the president to order the bipartisan inquiry, a step he had long resisted.
R Ray Wang, principal at Constellation Research agrees, saying there is a huge mobile skills gap in many organizations where they lack sufficient knowledge around integration, design and native device capabilities, forcing companies to seek outside help, at least initially, to overcome these limitations.
This means a complete lack of "self-rescue" capabilities, forcing a stuck US Coast Guard icebreaker to rely on the benevolence of other countries, with more capability, for help.
These navies were small and lacked blue water capabilities, forcing the separate colonies to subsidise the cost of a British naval squadron in their waters for decades.
Part of DARPA's research agenda is devoted to improving the decision-making capability of forces at both the tactical and strategic levels.
"Such systems, therefore, offer the potential to broaden the capability of forces to deliver accurate fire on positively identified targets, but ultimately they can only be as smart as the personnel that operate them".
Previous competitors having complementary capabilities joined forces to expand product lines and, in some cases, to offer a more comprehensive system of services and products to potential customers.
And although Russia tries to look menacing, in reality neither its apparent intentions nor its military capabilities (nuclear forces aside) are yet a galvanising threat.
With those increased surveillance capabilities, "whatever forces we have there are exponentially much more effective, because you can use precision targeting much more aggressively and much more quickly," the official said.
