1) If it is common in your workplace to assign Project names, then yes. However, if modernization is ongoing (all the time), any improvement is “a part of modernization”. 2) If the separator already is the name of something in use, and you are improving it without renaming it, then “ a next-generation separator” is being developed (from the old one).
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