They believe that the simpler more efficient design will also significantly reduce operations and maintenance costs.
When implemented properly, the cloud computing economic model can drastically reduce the operations and maintenance cost of IT infrastructures.
Lockheed Martin purchased the system in May, and their contract with D-Wave includes operations and maintenance by D-Wave.
More are attracted by the French model: keep the assets in public hands, but contract out investment, operations and maintenance.
By shifting focus from technology operations and maintenance towards innovation, organizations can reduce costs and remain competitive in a challenging economic market.
Most of it is already programmed for ongoing operations and maintenance.
The most pressing problem the Navy currently faces is in its operations and maintenance account, which funds pretty much everything the sea services need except for military pay and weapons purchases.
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It covers building, waste management, decommissioning, operations and maintenance.
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And because the budget authority targeted by the law typically gets spent much faster in operations and maintenance than in other areas, it is there that the pain will be felt fastest.
It also pointed out that, with less than half of the company's operations and maintenance staff in the RMT, and 38 of these voting for a strike, less than one in five supported the action.
Although the regionals often fly routes in agreements with larger carriers and are governed by the same safety rules, in practice, Mr. McGee says, the regionals often employ lesser standards for crew training, pilot training, and operations and maintenance.
Operations and maintenance, the account most closely tied to readiness, is structured in a way that affords somewhat more flexibility than weapons accounts, but on the other hand budget authority gets spent faster there so the money dries up faster.
At the very least, we should resolve to apply any resources freed up by ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse in the Defense Department, to addressing yawning shortfalls in the military's modernization, research and development and operations and maintenance funding.
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Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
Second, General Electric (GE) announced on May 23rd that they will be offering production based availability (PBA) guarantees as an option for new and existing operations and maintenance contracts on all GE 1.5 and 2.5 megawatt series wind turbines.
To that end, the company spearheaded projects such as the Connected Bus project in San Francisco, which involved taking the disparate tracking units the city had been using to keep tabs on buses, railcars and other transit fleet vehicles, and integrating them into one system that enables more reliable operations and maintenance as well as lower emissions.
As a result, the firm has taken measures to try to turn around the fortunes of the unit, including cancelling services on loss-making routes and streamlining some of its maintenance operations and cutting jobs.
Egenera computers may cost 30% more than a comparable amount of bargain-basement processing, but their centrally managed operations eliminate setup and maintenance costs, as well as cables and multiple copies of systems.
In addition to the establishment of studio facilities and training sessions, two operations manuals governing studio protocols and maintenance, as well as standard operational procedures now support the functions of the UGCCS Radio-Television studios.
The agencies will be analyzing savings opportunities across the government, in areas such as desktops and laptops, IT software, janitorial and sanitation supplies, office furniture, building maintenance and operations services, and other professional and technical services.
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Globally, the nonprofit group ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) sets voluntary safety standards for the industry regarding design, manufacturing, maintenance and operations.
Ed Walby of Northup's High Altitude Long Endurance Systems Enterprise recently told Secure Freedom Radio, the Global Hawk requires fewer personnel for maintenance and operations.
The capacity utilization of the flat-rolled products was 81%, and the company faced some losses in shipments in its European operations due to weaker demand and some planned maintenance items.
Like many open source companies, Typesafe offers a service package called Typesafe Subscription that includes commercial support, maintenance, and operations tools.
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Alitalia's trick this time seems to turn partly on spinning off non-flight operations, such as ground handling and maintenance, into a separate company called Alitalia Servizi.
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Nine safety board teams will examine aspects such as train operations and communications, signals, tracks, crash-worthiness of equipment, maintenance and survivability -- ease of fleeing the trains after the crash and other survivability factors, Hersman said.
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The Mobile Repair and Operations (MRO) prototype has been built to help maintenance workers who are often called on to find and fix equipment on large industrial plants they have never visited before.
About two-thirds of its sales are attributable to multiyear maintenance, repair and operations contracts, with an average annual retention rate for these contracts since 2000 running at 95%.
Since the April 20 explosions and fire, BP is carefully evaluating the subsea blow-out preventers used in all our drilling operations world-wide, including the testing and maintenance procedures of our drilling contractors using the devices.
Additional sizable savings will be realized from foregoing aircraft maintenance, reducing ship and aircraft operations, cutting IT spending 25%, and firing hundreds of temporary employees.
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