MIRABEL – October 27, 2026 -- Volatus Aerospace Inc. (TSX: FLT) opened its 53,000-square-foot manufacturing and systems integration facility in Mirabel, Québec, expanding its Canadian production capacity for uncrewed and autonomous systems.

Drone docking station production is already running at the Mirabel site

The facility has been operational since earlier this year. Production of drone docking stations is underway. The site also supports integration and production of Volatus' V-Series aircraft and other autonomous systems.

Plant sits in the aerospace cluster around Montréal-Mirabel International Airport

The facility combines manufacturing, systems integration and technology advancement in one Canadian production environment. Volatus said the investment targets growing requirements across defence, public safety, industrial and commercial markets in Canada and allied countries.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- A pump pressure trend shows when a value left its normal range but cannot show which alarm changed state, what severity the server reported, or when an operator acknowledged it. Those answers sit in separate OPC UA records, and historian designs must decide which questions each record has to answer.

Tag history stores values, not alarm lifecycles

An OPC UA client collects a variable through a monitored item. When DataChange criteria are met, the server sends a DataValue that the historian can store with source timestamp, server timestamp, and StatusCode, depending on the collector mapping. Sampling, deadbands, queues, and timestamp selection determine how much process behavior survives.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has won a contract from Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) to supply the tolling system for Sydney's Western Harbour Tunnel. It is the company's first tolling deployment in Australia and the country's first tagless, video-only tolling system.

TransCore will deploy its Infinity Digital Lane System with video analytics

The multi-lane free-flow system uses video analytics with overhead detection to detect, identify and classify vehicles at highway speeds. It needs no in-pavement sensors, which TransCore says simplifies maintenance and cuts costs. New machine learning capabilities automate vehicle classification and image processing, reducing manual intervention and operating costs while improving accuracy.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has taken an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 80 through Fairfield and Vacaville live as express lanes, its fourth corridor for the Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority (BAIFA) since 2017.

TransCore integrates AVI and ALPR tolling across the I-80 corridor

TransCore supplied the tolling system integration for the corridor. The roadside system uses Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) and Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) to detect and toll all users. Covered vehicle types are carpools, vanpools, buses, motorcycles and solo drivers with FasTrak or FasTrak Flex tags.

Dynamic pricing adjusts toll rates in real time based on traffic conditions. Overhead digital signs show the current toll for each zone.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore, a tolling technology and traffic-management supplier, has appointed Deborah Sharpless as its first Chief Experience Officer (CXO), a newly created executive role aimed at tightening ties with tolling and transportation agencies.

Former Maryland Transportation Authority CFO brings 25 years of public sector experience

Sharpless has more than 25 years of experience in finance, operations and customer service. Most recently she was Chief Financial Officer of the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA), a role she took after serving as Deputy Executive Director.

She also chaired the E-ZPass Interagency Group Executive Board and served as a Director on the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) Board.

Nashville – October 27, 2026 -- TransCore has been selected by the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) for a lifecycle replacement of the roadside toll collection system on the Selmon Expressway, covering 18 miles and 17 toll zones.

TransCore replaces aging roadside infrastructure across 17 toll zones

The award extends a partnership with THEA that spans nearly two decades. TransCore will replace existing equipment with its next-generation tolling technology to increase automation, system visibility and long-term performance. The integrated roadside platform is designed to deliver consistent toll collection across the corridor and give THEA more insight into system activity.

Mediterranean – October 27, 2026 -- A Mali-flagged general cargo vessel switched off its AIS transponder for 25 days and 8 hours off eastern Libya between August 28 and September 23, 2026. Windward's maritime intelligence team assesses the gap as deliberate.

Vessel reappeared at the same position and returned to Albania

The ship left an Albanian port declaring Egypt as its destination and went dark in open water. When it resumed transmitting on September 23, it was at nearly the same position where it had disappeared. It then changed its declared destination back to Albania and sailed directly there.

Canada – October 27, 2026 -- WaitWell scored 9.4 out of 10 in its own evaluation of 10 medical practice management platforms, ahead of athenaOne (8.2), Tebra (7.8), SimplePractice (7.6) and RXNT (7.4). WaitWell publishes the guide and discloses a commercial interest in its conclusions.

Seven weighted criteria favor platforms that handle walk-ins and bookings

The evaluation covered scheduling and self-booking, check-in and queue capability, EHR and billing integration, compliance posture (HIPAA, SOC 2), analytics quality, billing depth and pricing transparency. The team tested tools directly where possible, analyzed reviews from G2, Capterra and Software Advice, and reviewed published pricing.

Platforms that manage both scheduled appointments and walk-in flow scored higher than billing-only suites. The guide's rationale is that more practices need a modern scheduling and check-in layer than another billing migration.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Cold chain operators should tier monitoring by shipment risk, using QR indicators, electronic data loggers and connected devices at different levels instead of one technology on every lane, according to a guide on cold chain monitoring systems.

Indicators flag exceptions with the simplest workflow

WarmMark QR monitors cumulative exposure above a specified temperature, while FreezeSafe QR identifies exposure below a specified temperature. QR-enabled documentation captures information at selected hand-offs without requiring every user to download and interpret a complete data file.

Products vulnerable in both directions need both limits covered. ColdChain Complete is aimed at shipments where upper and lower thresholds must be monitored together.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Coalition's newly appointed Chief Information Security Officer, a 25-year InfoSec veteran, argues that security teams run on a finite supply of organizational trust, and that high-friction controls drain it and push staff toward less-protected workarounds.

Coalition's CISO treats organizational trust as a limited token budget

The executive spent five years at Coalition before taking the CISO role. The CISO describes trust as a basket of tokens: every control costs tokens, and some cost more than others. Friction belongs only where risk warrants it, while teams should look for changes that raise protection and lower cost at once. Hoarding tokens benefits attackers, the CISO writes, because a control adequate two years ago may fall short today. Coalition holds vendors and itself to the same standard.