Breakthrough Project Portfolio Management: Achieving the Next Level of Capability and Optimization

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Saber Radar, is a project from the Brazilian Army to develop 100% national technology air defense radars. They are being developed by CTEx (Army Technology Center) and OrbiSat, a Brazilian company, with funds from the Ministry of Science and Technology. Started in February 2006, the first prototype was ready a few months later. In 2007, the Saber M60, the first operational radar, was ready. So, since 2007, Brazil is one out of eight countries that can develop radar. A Brazilian engineer said that the cost of the Saber M60 project is $20 million Brazilian Reais (about US$ 11 million). ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19406710