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.

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An object of the invention is to provide a method of secret communication which is relatively simply and reliable in operations, but at the same time is difficult to discover or decipher.

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Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal control to achieve the objectives of effective and efficient operations, reliable financial reporting, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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As an example, the Navy's newest communications satellite, the Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, is intended to provide more-reliable links for special-operations personnel and other military users than current Navy-operated satellites.

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By partnering with Thuraya, SoftBank Mobile aims to provide reliable and easily deployable emergency mobile telecommunication services during times of disaster recovery operations.

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Mission critical applications are applications that are vital to the day-to-day operations of an enterprise, and these solutions require high performance and highly reliable storage solutions.

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In a statement Rio Tinto s job cuts plans, Anglesey Aluminium said it was working "at assessing viable scenarios to safeguard operations on site beyond October 2009" but this required "a competitive and reliable source of energy" to be in place.

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