Sentence examples for competing mission from inspiring English sources
"For me, it is best to go out there with a mind-set that I am simply performing, not competing". Mission accomplished.
Within the framework of several dozen competing mission concepts for planetary exploration under NASA's Discovery program, Genesis needed to perform extremely high quality science (solar collection and sample return) for an affordable yet realistic level of effort.
The committee's solution gleaned from 10 cost-containment studies includes adding a phase early in the development of proposals for competing mission concepts submitted to NASA "with funding and time to better develop cost estimates and estimates of risk," says Esposito.
Given the choice between funding technological research at the oldest university in the nation or an independent and adolescent institution, potential benefactors were indifferent or even hostile to funding MIT's competing mission.
It also sheds light on the sometimes competing missions of the SEC to protect investors and facilitate capital formation.
It also is tricky to pick members of the Joint Chiefs, who are not only the president's senior military advisers on questions of war but also the leaders of the individual military services, at the fulcrum of competing missions and constituencies that are never easy to balance.
NASA could then, presumably, weed out competing missions that had unrealistic initial cost estimates.
[T]he competing missions and differing priorities of the Library and the Copyright Office have increasingly emerged as a source of tension...
But the united-front approach was criticized as a recipe for compromise among services competing for missions at the expense of well-conceived plans.
Organizations have boundaries that get in the way of cooperating with other organizations -- particularly when they are competing for missions and resources.
