People can adapt to different jobs through training, which makes them useful in ship construction and damage control. Building a machine capable of the same range of tasks can cost more than employing and retraining a person. Computers, however, exchange information far faster than people. Seconds spent passing information become consequential when a hypersonic threat leaves little response time. The comparison assigns a role to both human adaptability and rapid machine communication.
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Human adaptability and computer response times
The automation discussion separates people's ability to adapt to unfamiliar tasks from computers' speed in passing information during an attack.