SDI death watch.SDI (1) (Serial Digital Interface) A physical interface widely used for transmitting digital video in various formats. For electrical transmission, it uses a high grade of coaxial cable and a single BNC connector with Teflon insulation. Death Watch The Washington Post has pulled a long face and drawn itself up to the bed of SDI in expectation of its sad demise (not that the Post ever wished it long life, but never mind). The paper quoted a report of Congress's Office of Technology Assessment (OTA (Over The Air) Refers to any wireless system such as AM/FM radio and network television that uses open space as its transmission medium. ) and an unreleased report of the Everett panel of the Defense Science Board of the Defense Department, to show that SDI won't work, isn't progressing, and will be scaled back. But Edward Rowny Lieutenant General Edward Rowny, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1917 in a Polish family, was a U.S. Army general and an ambassador, chief U.S. negotiator in arms reduction talks with the Soviet Union, and one of the originators of the helicopter as a platform for combat. , Special Advisor to the President on Arms Control arms control Limitation of the development, testing, production, deployment, proliferation, or use of weapons through international agreements. Arms control did not arise in international diplomacy until the first Hague Convention (1899). , said in a Washington speech that the patient's pulse is steady and strong. The Eveett panel has found SDI to be "fundamentally sound," and the OTA agrees with the Administration that Phase I of SDI will be deployable between 1995 and 2000. SDI research thrives; this year, the Delta 181 experiment took a giant step toward discriminating between warheads and decoys. The problem is money. Another thing OTA and the White House agree on-if Congress keeps scrimping scrimp v. scrimped, scrimp·ing, scrimps v.intr. To economize severely. v.tr. 1. To be excessively sparing with or of. 2. To cut or make too small or scanty. , key portions of the program will be scrimped out of existence. Gloom and doom articles in the Washington Post, of course, encourage Congress to stay its course. (Bet they never thought of that.) |
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