With its outdated equipment, the firm was also under threat from more competitive foreign suppliers.
And the space agency has spend years facing low budgets and outdated equipment.
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The Transportation Department's inspector general said in a report that the consolidation effort is part of the FAA's program to replace deteriorating and outdated equipment.
The U.S. military was racked by abysmal morale, pitiful pay (thousands of enlisted men's families survived on food stamps), outdated equipment and utterly inadequate maintenance of what equipment it did have.
Mr Milburn - whose conference address will be his first high-profile speech to the members of the medical profession since the Budget - is also said to favour the money being spent on training new staff, replacing outdated equipment and replacing old technology.
While many have been improved and their useful lives extended with more contemporary technology, our troops are handicapped and exposed unnecessarily to peril because they are operating outdated and even obsolescing equipment.
China's military today is so outdated that much of its equipment might well have seen action in the Korean War, and many of its troops are semiliterate.
Transforming education so that it meets the needs of all children is a complex and difficult task that spans issues ranging from the global shortage of trained, qualified teachers--UNESCO estimates that we need 18 million new teachers to meet current demand--to the problems of overcrowded schools, aging infrastructure, obsolete equipment and textbooks, and outdated teaching methods and curricula.
Critics of the Army say the vehicles are an outdated, cheap alternative to the more modern equipment used by the US and South Africa.
Poor working conditions, rudimentary surveillance and communications equipment, inadequate forensic science laboratories and outdated weaponry are making matters worse.
The offer "was intended to create the impression that the quality of North Korea's military equipment is low and its control system outdated, " said Pyongyang.
Even into the 1990s China had little more than a conscript army of ill-educated peasants using equipment based largely on obsolete Soviet designs of the 1950s and outdated cold-war (or even guerrilla-war) doctrine.
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