That includes a $1.1 million grant from New York State that Mr. Sroka said would mostly be used to "maintain, upgrade and improve the center physically".
The war on terror has become a perpetual state of terror, and its weaponry (including the continuous struggle to maintain, upgrade, and devise it) has become an unbearable burden.
Schools, highways, the electric grid, water systems, ports, dams, levees — the list can seem endless — have to be maintained, upgraded, rebuilt or replaced if the U.S. is to remain a first-class nation with a first-class economy over the next several decades.
The division's 13,000 employees maintain, upgrade and renovate planes, a business growing at 15% a year, far outstripping the rest of Boeing's $12.5 billion military aircraft and missile unit.
When you look inside a lot of data centers and realize they have hundreds of system management tools and different hardware and software platforms that need to be maintained, upgraded and managed, and then all of this has to be integrated.
Furthermore, Dr Pines cautions that the technology might be expensive - not just to purchase, but to pay to train staff and to maintain upgrades over the long term.
Sinopec already spends a fortune maintaining and upgrading its refineries.
Like other Russian companies, it invested little money maintaining or upgrading equipment in the 1990s.
But because regulation limited their profits, they had little financial incentive to invest in maintaining and upgrading the system.
Almost half of its earnings are derived from Britain, where it is also involved in maintaining and upgrading the London Underground system.
