Mitrofanov said that Russia's robotic moon planners "have taken into account" the disaster with its Phobos-Grunt Mars mission in 2011-2012 — a failure due to reported poor management, technical glitches and a hurry to launch schedule.
AT&T got bogged down in technological glitches, management miscues and ballooning debt.
Massive cost overruns, technical glitches, and management missteps have plagued the nuclear weapons programs in recent years and delayed construction of expensive facilities at Los Alamos and elsewhere.
The project ran into serious problems last year, however, after Livermore officials revealed that technical glitches and management missteps would delay the project beyond its scheduled 2003 completion date and drive up costs (Science, 31 March, p. 2389).
BUT Ms. Hargrove's rich compensation, along with several management missteps, including a technical glitch in the Tennessee's lottery computer system that caused errors for three weeks in lottery drawing results, has placed her leadership and salary under renewed scrutiny.
Each call for a strike, parliamentary setback or glitch in routine debt management brought a new selloff or an increase in the price of insuring sovereign debt against default on the highly speculative credit default swaps market.
Beset by technical problems, glitches, ambitious goals, politics and management failures, the gravity probe has also been canceled again and again.
But the audit office report said the rollout of the new benefit had been hindered by IT glitches and an unfamiliar project management approach.
VA management says they first learned about the computer glitch in April.
Sometimes a husky and cat relationship can work out without a glitch, but often it is a constant management situation.
