descoping

As a result, a U.S. database of Iraq reconstruction contracts shows the project as complete "when in fact the hospital was only 35 percent complete when work was stopped," said investigators in describing the practice of "descoping" as frequent. "

Get out now. 2008

I wonder if anyone here remembers the descoping of Freedom?

Moon Outpost or Bust - NASA Watch 2009

The proponents of doing "just one more study" of Ares I will plead that they couldn't have known that such a terrible thing as the descoping of Constellation would be the fallout.

Moon Outpost or Bust - NASA Watch 2009

Did they put up with the constant fighting over budget and schedule or NASA-mandated descoping of their experiment to pay for some one else's screw-up on the mission?

When Will NASA Release LRO Imagery? - NASA Watch 2009

Instead, descoping hurts the sponsor in reducing the bang for the buck that they are getting.

Push Back on MSL Cuts - NASA Watch 2007

By cancelling or descoping these robotic missions, money is freed up to cover nagging problems that Griffin and Horowitz feel they need to attend to i.e.

NASA Watch: Exploration: March 2007 Archives 2007

By cancelling or descoping these robotic missions, money is freed up to cover nagging problems that Griffin and Horowitz feel they need to attend to i.e.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: March 2007 Archives 2007

Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft recognizes the effects of the 2006 descoping of the program due to cost overruns and the purchase of fewer spacecraft, and recommends what NASA and NOAA should do to recover crucial capabilities lost in the NPOESS and GOES-R program.

News from the National Academies 2009