Before the 20th century, equipment replacement and ammunition resupply were a relatively small part of an army's needs.
Yet there is already the beginning of a rise in the equipment replacement and recovery business because of the World Trade Center disaster.
Reconstruction costs alone could be at least $30 billion, once debris removal, rebuilding, equipment replacement, overtime, utility damage, subway repairs and other costs directly related to the attack are totaled.
If Mr. Rumsfeld legitimizes the Pentagon's status quo responses -- more tanks, ships and planes, slightly improved -- to his proposals, he undermines Mr. Bush and keeps the Pentagon in a spiral of steadily deteriorating readiness, rapidly rising equipment replacement costs and increasing strategic irrelevance.
Is this like revolving credit, then, or a credit card? A. No. It's very important that when a small business borrows for the purpose of some type of equipment replacement, inventory or marketing that they pay down the capital in the time period that they are using the money.
Robust equipment replacement programmes that take into consideration optimization of radiation dose and improved efficiencies.
Figure 7 Two of the equipment replacement strategies considered for the HSPA and LTE layers.
Based on the previous network evolution case study, the possible gains from equipment replacement are investigated.
In a first step, equipment replacement is carried out in a way to prioritize the gradual replacement of older equipment.
Its solution is essential for finding the optimal policy of equipment replacement under technological advances.
In particular, equipment replacement cost was identified as an important cost driver.
