[RyanN]

I went to the mentor's meeting (as I am a future mentor) of the new cRIO and control system in Atlanta on Thursday night. They mentioned that the cRIO will be more expensive than our current control system, but many of the parts in the cRIO are being donated by the vendors. They said at this point, teams should look at reusing their controller year after year, but they will have the cRIO available for purchase, you know... if for some reason your cRIO breaks or your team likes to keep your robots together year after year.

So basically... I believe they intend to "give" teams only one cRIO, and they can purchase additional ones as they like. So I believe you will reuse them year after year.