"The Company" had long exploited the imperative of operational secrecy to avoid accountability for its failures (like neglecting, in 1973, to anticipate Egypt's invasion of Israel).
Both sides, however, recognize that the incident was unintentional and both sides recognize the need to take concrete operational measures to avoid similar occurrences in the future.
The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, who last week denied payments but on Monday cited operational secrecy to avoid parliamentary questions, accused Labor of double standards.
In parliament in Canberra on Monday, Bishop and Dutton did not repeat their previous firm denials that payments had occurred, instead invoking the government's policy of not commenting on operational matters to avoid answering direct questions.
Mr. Ermotti, who joined UBS from Unicredit, said his first priority as interim chief would be to review the bank's level of operational risk to avoid a repeat of the $2.3 billion trading loss.
While in office Sir John described torture as "illegal and abhorrent", but in 2010 said the security services faced "real, constant operational dilemmas" to avoid using information which has been gathered by torture.
"Leakers and whistleblowers, together with the investigative journalists they inform, are a critically important pressure valve, however imperfect, that protect us from an overreaching national security establishment that uses the justifiable needs of operational secrecy to avoid scrutiny for its errors of judgment, incompetence, or malfeasance.
He said his organisation faced "real, constant operational dilemmas" to avoid using intelligence which had been gathered by torture.
In the application of an autonomous underwater vehicle a critical requirement is to keep the level of the actuation signals within operational limits to avoid, for example, actuator nonlinearities and reduce peak power consumption.
TCWC Nadi subsequently reported during December 14, that the system had regenerated into a category one tropical cyclone and renamed it: Arthur, for various reasons including operational purposes and to avoid confusion among recipients of their warnings.
