earlier generation of equipment worked well for detecting the older gener-
ation of metallic mines, but it performed poorly against the newer gener-
ation of landmines that replaced most of the metal with plastic and were
often smaller in size. A design for detection equipment was developed with a
new sensor system at a cost of $38M over nine years, but first- run tests with
operators who were already trained on the older equipment showed that
the new system was not appreciably better than the old one for detecting
low- metallic mines. The solution was to redevelop the training program
for the new equipment ...
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