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This approach is built around observation that in today's shrinking defense budgets, military products must share wherever possible hardware software and maintenance components with civilian arena
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Rapidly changing technologies accentuate the importance of this approach
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A typical military system takes 5 to ten years to build and is out of date, when delivered
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The dual-use philosophy advocates design as set of dual-use modules which can be replaced by latest (civilian) technology in incremental fashion
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The same philosophy encourages multi-use or modular or component approach to produce reusable technologies and applications for several civilian and military applications
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For example, multimedia databases can be used in
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Military Command and Control, Health Care, Business and Government Decision Making, Education and Entertainment
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