By renovating this aging building's classroom, performance, meeting, and administrative spaces (and by modernizing its technology infrastructure), we will make this hub a powerful magnet for students who are passionate about arts and culture while creating new venues for serendipitous gatherings.
It's just one of the issues plaguing the agency: Earlier this year, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General John Roth slammed USCIS for failing to modernize its information technology.
Home Depot said yesterday that it would spend $3.7 billion in 2004 to modernize its stores, upgrade technology and open 175 new stores.
After violating federal clean-air laws at eight refineries across the country, BP, in January 2001, paid a $10 million penalty and agreed to spend $500 million modernizing its pollution-control technology.
The group will open an office in Georgetown, about 60 miles north of Charleston, and enlarge offices in Beaufort and Charleston ($1 million); open a full-time policy office in Columbia, the state capital ($500,000); and modernize its communications and technology programs, both for advocacy and advanced analysis of land issues ($750,000).
The problem? Herman Miller, based in Zeeland, Mich., was catering to a narrow, big-name customer base; it had little interest in using technology to modernize its business, and there was a dearth of new designs in the pipeline.
"One thing that Nassau County will definitely be spending millions of dollars on will be technology" to modernize its operations, he said.
"He has played a major role in helping the organization renew and modernize its mission of serving science, technology and society," Dr. Wiesel said in a statement.
Another risk, notes Michael Krepon, the president of the Henry L. Stimson Center, which works on security issues, is that other nations "could adopt the Pakistani definition of proliferation: If the state needs to swap some nuclear technology to modernize its deterrent, that's defense, not proliferation".
Near-term operating headwinds will persist in some of its regions, however SSI is closing 90 underperforming stores and shifting capital spend to modernizing its remaining stores and evolving technology and its loyalty programs.
Russia under President Vladimir Putin has developed new missile technology, including modernizing its "road-mobile" intercontinental ballistic missiles.
