Law of the Sea Treaty VIVACE Project Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Home Page NAO report slams UK's Typhoon acquisition-02/03/2011-London-Flightglobal.com The Royal Air Force’s reduced fleet of Eurofighter Typhoons could cost up to £37 billion ($60.2 billion) to acquire and support over the type’s service life, but will not become the UK’s first choice aircraft for ground attack missions until around 2018, according to a new National Audit Office (NAO) report. Published on 2 March, the government spending watchdog’s ‘Management of the Typhoon project’ overview is highly critical of what it describes as over-optimism, bad decision making and poor cost control on the part of the UK Ministry of Defence. The RAF has so far taken delivery of 70 Typhoons from the UK’s planned offtake of 160 aircraft. Although it originally committed to buying 232 examples from the four-nation Eurofighter industry consortium, London has already cut 24 from this total by brokering the sale of 72 aircraft to Saudi Arabia, and also stated its intention to renege on a planned Tranche 3B commitment for a final 48.
Monitor Suite® Cost Estimating : Project Planning & Estimation A customer recently asked us for a standard set of estimating points. And among us we didn’t have an answer off the top of our heads… We looked at PMI, ITIL, COBIT, etc. and found no standard. We deal with estimating gates all the time… So how come we didn’t have any standards. It struck me that the estimating points match many of the decision gates, the development gates. PMI’s PMBOK states “cost estimates should be reviewed and refined during the course of the project to reflect additional detail as it becomes available and assumptions are tested. So.. Concept Level Estimate Just a finger in the wind to see if the idea is worth exploring or is so expensive as to be impractical. Business Case Estimate Estimate in the decision making phase when a project has not yet been authorized, often as part of the business case analysis. Project Charter and Plan Estimate Detailed Plan & Function Spec Estimate Construction / Deployment Estimate Post Deployment Estimate My key points were: Banff…. Read more
State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere: March, 2010 96, or 48%, of the 2009 AmLaw 200 law firms are now blogging. This number is up from 39 firms, or a 149% increase, since August 2007 when LexBlog released its first State of the AmLaw Blogosphere. The number of blogs being published by these firms has grown nearly 300% in that same timeframe, from 74 to 297. In the 7 months since LexBlog released its fourth State of the AmLaw Blogosphere in June of 2009, the number of AmLaw law firms blogging has grown 20%. For large law firms looking to brand their law firm blogs, LexBlog remains the blog publishing platform of choice with 65% of the AmLaw law firm branded blogs running on the the LexBlog publishing platform. Growth highlights: 48% of AmLaw 200 law firms have blogs.20% growth in last 8 months in the number of AmLaw 200 law firms publishing blogs.33% growth in last 8 months in total number of blogs being published by AmLaw 200 law firms (some firms have more than one blog). And in the numbers: Note: a e-Discovery Team SCOTUSblog ClimateIntel
Qantas To Launch New Maintenance System | Share on LinkedIn Lex Mercatoria: International Commercial Law & E-Commerce Infrastructure Monitor (1993 -> 2009 :) ----> Justia Blawg Search - Law Blogs, Lawyer Blogs, Legal Blogs Directory & Search Engine LII: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Historical Note The original Rules of Civil Procedure for the District Courts were adopted by order of the Supreme Court on Dec. 20, 1937, transmitted to Congress by the Attorney General on Jan. 3, 1938, and became effective on Sept. 16, 1938. The Rules have been amended Dec. 28, 1939, eff. Apr. 3, 1941; Dec. 27, 1946, eff. Mar. 19, 1948; Dec. 29, 1948, eff. Oct. 20, 1949; Apr. 30, 1951, eff. References to Equity Rules The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure supplant the Equity Rules since in general they cover the field now covered by the Equity Rules and the Conformity Act (former section 724 of this title). This table shows the Equity Rules to which references are made in the notes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.