Cat also has its sights set on competing with Hertz' equipment arm and United Rentals.

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The goal was a modernised fleet and air arm with complementary communications and tracking equipment, lower maintenance and better conditions for the crew.

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What that does is enable the scientific adviser to provide advice to the procurement arm of the MOD on how well that equipment operates and what the benefits and limitations of that device are in theatre.

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But he only offers vague assurances of "pull-through, " as the customers who load up on Compaq's industry-standard Web-servers and related equipment also turn to Compaq's services arm to link it all together.

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Improvements in equipment technology (i.e. that absurdly large arm brace Ray Lewis wears) have helped, too.

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The Department of Defense does not have a submersible that can reach 5, 000 feet with the mechanical arm power to do the types of things that BP and other oil companies buy equipment to do.

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