However, considering U.S. proficiency in the development of airpower (manned and unmanned), precision guided munitions, undersea warfare capabilities, and shipbuilding there may be a range of existing and viable future weapon systems that are more operationally flexible and also more cost-effective than land-based IRBMs.
SpaceX is a perfect example: it is far more operationally efficient, and that is largely due to the fact that it is privately held.
Like others [ 13, 14] we have adopted the more operationally defined and analytically useful metagene approach, in which clusters of correlated genes are replaced by statistical summaries of them; here we use cluster centroids (mean vectors).
He also said there was evidence that Bin Laden had been more "operationally engaged" than Mr. Zawahri, and that Mr. Zawahri's Egyptian roots and focus limited his appeal to militants from other countries.
We must be more in tune with our customers, optimize human resources, become more efficient and be more operationally responsive in a post-9/11, post-Katrina environment.
Bankruptcy court allows troubled companies to shed debt and also become more operationally efficient as they renegotiate labor contracts, as airlines have done, or reject pricey store leases, which retailers often do.
"This was done to address the challenges our company and industry face due to the volatility in the economy, and will continue to find ways to become more operationally efficient," Mr. Christie said in a statement.
However, those advisers have retired as the firm has focused on hiring more operationally focused executives.
As a numbers man, he did not always connect with more operationally minded colleagues.
"So much of it has become so much more operationally oriented rather than R.&D.-oriented, which was really his interest," said Tim Hunkapiller, who was also a co-inventor of the DNA sequencer and is a consultant to Applied Biosystems.
