This paper presents a comparative analysis of FPGAs and traditional processors, focusing on floating-point performance and procurement costs, revealing economic hurdles in the adoption of FPGAs for general high-performance computing (HPC).
That sentiment was shared by another contributor, who said: "There are numerous hurdles within the current procurement process which really restrict social enterprises.
Speaking at the Public Sector Enterprise ICT conference in London, he told delegates that standardising services and moving towards a 'pay as you go' model of procurement would would provide the biggest hurdle to take-up of the G Cloud.
Because the company is already registered in the federal procurement system, states have one less hurdle to overcome if they choose to work with Centrify while taking advantage of federal assistance seeking to bolster state election security.
(The rest was lost through non-competitive procurement, poor storage and bad prescriptions).Corruption is another common hurdle, but need not be an insuperable one.
But security startups not only face all the challenges ranged against their counterparts in other B2B segments – not least in terms of navigating the procurement hierarchies of corporates – but arguably they also have a much bigger hurdle to surmount when it comes to establishing themselves as credible and trusted parties.
Needless to say, the complexities of Pentagon procurement regulations and especially the circle-the-wagons mentality of the Pentagon and Congress present serious hurdles to be overcome, most of them ethical.
Selling military equipment to the United States has long been difficult for European companies, who cite legislative hurdles like the Buy American Act, passed by Congress in 1933, which allows procurement preferences for domestically produced goods.
Even if Trump does get the money for his wall next year, he will face high hurdles -- with construction unlikely to begin until 2019 at the earliest because of the lengthy federal procurement process, said James Norton, former deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security under Bush when the Secure Fence Act was passed.
"Procurement is always tricky.
