The drop reflects a shift from large-scale IT modernization programs that can take several years complete to shorter-term projects, such as implementing a Web-based e- mail system.
Harry and Leona Helmsley, the real estate and hotel executives, have donated $33 million to New York Hospital to aid its $300 million modernization program and its cardiovascular research center.
"Today, through our nonviolent action, we, Transform Now Plowshares, indict the U.S. government nuclear modernization program," it began.
"The current draft request for proposals is not a tanker modernization program, it is just a replacement program" for the existing fleet of Eisenhower-era U.S. tankers, Mr. O'Keefe told journalists.
That's what the Irish government found in the 1950s and '60s, when, as part of a modernization program, it used heavy financial subsidies to persuade rural inhabitants to shift from slate and thatch to corrugated galvanized metal roofs.
But we have a very die-hard nuclear advocacy group or community right now that, every time they go to Congress and testify about the nuclear modernization program, it's like, "Oh no, this is the only one, this is all we can do.
Western military attaches said it was part of a modernization program in the Warsaw Pact nations that is separate from the medium-range missile deployment being negotiated in Geneva.
"It is no accident that every modernization program is 'developmental,' and that workable, less-expensive, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions do not fit the AMS model.
And as this Russian development program begins wrapping up, it so happens that the US nuclear modernization program will be kicking off in earnest.
It is not clear whether the "stabilization and modernization program" that deleted the Murdoch e-mail was linked to News International's request to "truncate" data.
It was introduced as part of Medvedev's modernization program.
