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...open sea - and that much was obvious even in Hawaii, not the harsh Bering Sea. "When you read that report, you have to wonder what the people who designed the thing where thinking," says Philip Coyle, a senior adviser at the Center for Defense Information (CDI) and a former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. "It's like you've hired a contractor to build a kitchen, and they've forgotten to build a stove that doesn't catch on fire." Still, the SBX has, in fact, spent about a month in Alaskan waters to test its ruggedness...
...Coyle and others argue that the MDA's work-in-progress attitude towards its systems is a sign that the program is in over its head. "With massive projects you're always going to have something not quite right," acknowledges Victoria Samson, a research analyst at CDI. But, she says, the extent of the upgrades and repairs that SBX and a few other MDA systems have required are signs of an agency that is buying time to deliver weapons that the White House has asked for but may not yet be realistic. "It's giving [the program] a blank check...
...Center of Design Informatics (CDI)--established about two years ago--is the focus of much of the distance learning action...
...CDI is currently trying to figure out how people learn best with this new technology. The goal: "a blurred program between real and virtual," Pollalis says...
...CDI has a Microsoft grant to pursue web-based learning. According to Pollalis, some GSD courses incorporate Web-based education extensively. In addition to efforts that have connected the school to such remote locations as Switzerland, Holland and Spain, Pollalis experiments within the school, lecturing from his office or his home to his class...