Events

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- SandboxAQ has completed what it calls the world's first reported test of a magnetic navigation (MagNav) system on an attritable drone platform, integrating its AQNav software into Northrop Grumman's Lumberjack Group 3 unmanned aircraft system.

Test marks first pairing of MagNav with visual navigation on a one-way attack platform

The flight demonstration also represents the first reported instance of a MagNav system operating alongside a visual navigation system on an attritable, one-way attack drone, according to SandboxAQ. Lumberjack, developed by Northrop Grumman in under 14 months from concept to first flight, is designed as a multi-use loitering munition.

Dallas – September 15, 2026 -- Provident Industrial has sold A20 Logistics Center, a 161,408-square-foot industrial building in Arlington, Texas, to an institutional buyer, closing out a project that leased half its space within one month of delivery.

Provident completed construction in January 2026, twelve months after breaking ground

The developer broke ground on the project in January 2025 in partnership with Humphreys Fund IV, managed by Humphreys Capital. Located at 4601 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, just south of I-20 next to Arlington Municipal Airport, the site sits roughly 30 minutes from downtown Dallas, downtown Fort Worth, and DFW International Airport.

Fort Worth, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Elbit Systems Ltd.'s U.S. operating segment will now operate as Twenty-Six Defense, a rebranding that reinforces the Israeli defense contractor's long-term commitment to domestic manufacturing amid U.S. government pressure to expand industrial capacity.

New entity employs 3,300 workers with three decades of military support

Twenty-Six Defense, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, employs 3,300 Americans who have supported the U.S. military for more than 30 years. The company remains a reportable operating segment of Elbit Systems Ltd. and continues to operate under a Special Security Agreement, a structure required for foreign-owned defense contractors handling classified U.S. government work.

Dallas – September 15, 2026 -- Integrity, LLC has partnered with Brave Insurance Group, a Dallas-based independent marketing organization founded by Blake Naylor specializing in final expense insurance. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Integrity adds a final expense specialist to its distribution network

Brave Insurance Group serves clients nationwide with final expense insurance solutions and will now gain access to Integrity's technology platform, including IntegrityCONNECT, a business growth engine offering demographic-segmented leads, instant health and life quoting, and application processing. The agency will also integrate Ask Integrity, Integrity's AI-powered and voice-activated digital assistant that delivers coverage recommendations and lifecycle reminders through its CRM.

Valencia, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Bioness Medical, Inc. and OneStep have struck a partnership that lets clinicians measure patient gait and mobility using only a smartphone, both in clinic and in daily life, the companies announced.

Data from 300 patients shows measurable gains in walking speed and stride length

More than 300 patients were evaluated on OneStep's gait analysis platform to gauge the immediate impact of functional electrical stimulation from Bioness' L300 Go and L300 Go Plus systems. Among adults using the L300 Go Plus, stride length increased by 5.9 cm and walking velocity rose from 0.68 to 0.74 m/s, with parallel gains in overall and symmetry-based gait scores.

Austin, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Milagro has extended its autonomous surgical coding platform to three additional ambulatory surgery centers operated by Constitution Surgery Alliance (CSA), bringing total deployment to 12 CSA facilities across New England and the Northeast.

CSA scales automated coding while keeping certified coders in the review loop

The expansion supports increasingly complex surgical coding workflows at CSA, one of the largest independent operators of outpatient surgery centers in the U.S. Sayword Hill, SVP of Revenue Cycle for CSA, said Milagro's automation is layered with the organization's existing coding review, quality assurance and auditing processes, allowing certified coding professionals to maintain oversight as automation scope grows.

Boston – September 15, 2026 -- EMD Serono, Inc., the U.S. and Canada healthcare business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has acquired two preclinical fertility drug programs from PostEra, a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence for small-molecule drug discovery.

EMD Serono takes over two AI-derived fertility programs from PostEra

The deal covers a class of follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR) agonists for ovarian stimulation in IVF and a separate class of luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor (LHCGR) agonists targeting male infertility and ovulation triggering in IVF. Both programs were developed over the past two years using PostEra's Proton AI platform and remain in preclinical development, with safety and efficacy in humans not yet established.

Delray Beach, Fla. – – September 15, 2026 -- The global High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) market is projected to grow from USD 0.94 billion in 2026 to USD 1.44 billion by 2031, a compound annual growth rate of 8.9%, according to MarketsandMarkets.

North America leads a market shifting toward recurring consumables revenue

North America held the largest regional share of the HFNC market in 2025, supported by advanced critical-care infrastructure and established manufacturers. By product, consumables and accessories outpaced systems in market share, while adults represented the largest patient-type segment. Acute respiratory failure treatment led application demand, and hospitals remained the dominant end-user category due to intensive care unit and emergency department volumes.

Boulder, Colo. – September 15, 2026 -- State sales tax audits drag on for an average of 223 days and can stretch as long as 682 days, according to internal data released by tax compliance firm TaxValet, which has guided 38 clients through such audits.

TaxValet has managed $458,492 in historical tax exposure accumulated by clients before they joined the firm

Defending a single audit consumes more than 20 hours of expert support, TaxValet reported. The firm noted that 45 current clients switched directly from popular sales tax software providers after those tools failed to close compliance gaps.

Boston – September 15, 2026 -- Encoura has published a new analysis showing that academic fields outside higher education's most popular majors are drawing sustained student interest but lack the outcomes visibility needed to compete for enrollment. The Eduventures Admitted Student 2026 Trend Report, titled "Beyond the Big Five: Exploring Majors Outside the Mainstream," draws on more than 42,000 responses collected over three years through Eduventures Admitted Student Research.

Report identifies a 'Next Five' tier of academic fields trailing the dominant majors

The study defines the "Big Five" fields — Biology, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, and Health Professions — as benefiting from clear career pathways and employer pipelines. It identifies a "Next Five" tier — Visual and Performing Arts, Psychology, Education, Social Sciences, and Physical Sciences — as the next most significant area of admitted-student interest.

Wilmington – September 15, 2026 -- SweetNight, a global sleep solutions company, has placed its mattresses on the sales floor of Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), one of the largest home furnishings retailers in the United States, marking its expansion beyond e-commerce and social commerce into brick-and-mortar retail.

Products have been stocked at NFM since mid-May 2026

The rollout includes SweetNight's CoolNest® Series, a cooling sleep collection built on its proprietary CoolNest® System combining airflow technology and ergonomic support, alongside the Twilight Hybrid Mattress, one of the company's top-performing hybrid models.

Fremont, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Q'Apel Medical has launched the Lynx Aspiration Catheter System in the United States, expanding its neurovascular portfolio into the aspiration category for mechanical thrombectomy, the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke caused by vessel occlusion.

Lynx becomes the second Q'Apel product built on proprietary QLCT technology

The Lynx system marks the second device to feature Q'Apel's proprietary Q'Apel Laser Cut Tube (QLCT) technology, following the company's earlier product on this engineering platform. The catheters use a bimetal shaft design with an open-spaced nitinol structure intended to balance proximal support with distal flexibility while resisting kinking during navigation through complex cerebrovascular anatomy.

Phoenix – September 15, 2026 -- Foundation 8, LLC has closed a $44.5 million first mortgage loan with Hilco Global Real Estate Capital to refinance and reposition the office component of 333 N Central Avenue, a landmark mixed-use tower in Downtown Phoenix.

Loan refinances acquisition debt and funds leasing costs

The financing replaces existing acquisition debt and provides additional capital for leasing costs, tenant improvements, and capital improvements tied to Foundation 8's business plan for the property. The office component spans 246,490 square feet of Class AA space across the top eight floors, plus 2,522 square feet of ground-floor retail, rooftop amenity rights, and shared parking access. A separately owned 242-key Westin Hotel occupies the building's middle floors.

Houston – September 15, 2026 -- Gulf Coast Midstream Partners (GCMP) has launched a non-binding open season for firm natural gas storage and wheeling service at its Nash Storage Hub in Fort Bend County, Texas, running through October 23, 2026.

Nash Storage Hub secures permits for 57 Bcf of salt cavern capacity

The Railroad Commission of Texas has authorized GCMP to develop up to five underground salt caverns on the Nash Dome, totaling approximately 57 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of working gas storage capacity. The initial phase will consist of two salt caverns delivering 23 Bcf of combined working gas storage, 0.9 Bcf/d of injection capacity, and 1.5 Bcf/d of withdrawal capacity.

Iselin, N.J. – September 15, 2026 -- Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, a New Jersey law firm with more than a century of operation, has launched a fully redesigned website and rebranded its public-facing identity to Greenbaum Law.

Firm retires decades-old four-name-partner logo for simplified Greenbaum Law brand

The rebrand replaces the firm's longstanding visual identity with a new logo, color palette, modernized font, and a stylized graphical icon, while Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP remains the formal legal entity name. The changes are rolling out immediately across all firm communications and digital platforms.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- PerceivIQ, a decision intelligence platform for workforce and economic development organizations, has partnered with Revelio Labs to give civic organizations access to labor market data spanning 1.1 billion professional profiles, 5 billion job postings and 30 million companies across 195 countries.

The deal marks Revelio Labs' formal entry into the civic market at scale, positioning PerceivIQ as an authorized reseller of Revelio workforce data for Workforce Development Boards, Economic Development Organizations, Regional Chambers, Trade Associations and community colleges.

Tenerife – September 15, 2026 -- Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen will appear at STARMUS VIII in Tenerife and La Palma from October 17-22, 2026, fifteen years after the festival's 2011 founding event brought together Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov in the Canary Islands.

Artemis II crew follows the same route once taken by Apollo-era legends

Wiseman, Glover and Hansen flew around the Moon and back earlier this year alongside Christina Koch, becoming part of the first crewed lunar mission in more than five decades and traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them. Their October appearance places three of the four Artemis II astronauts on the same festival stage where Armstrong, Aldrin and Leonov once spoke in 2011.

Santa Barbara, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Cronus Market Intelligence, LLC disclosed that its RegimeSignalTM platform posted an average 84% out-of-sample accuracy across four signals tracking the full S&P 500 market cycle, with bear signals hitting 86%, correction 84%, pullback 83% and recovery 82%.

Four signals cover every stage of the market cycle

Each accuracy figure represents the share of signal fires that were correct, measured on an out-of-sample basis. The recovery signal, the weakest performer at 82%, is described as a historical upper bound and was the specific signal flagged with qualifications in independent review.

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission is redrawing public procurement rules to treat supply security as a strategic asset, pressuring Germany to overhaul how statutory health insurers award pharmaceutical rebate contracts.

Brussels Moves to Rank Quality and Resilience Above Lowest Price

The Commission's draft directive would require public tenders to be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio rather than price alone, explicitly allowing supply security and resilience to factor into contract awards. The proposal also permits splitting large contracts into smaller lots to reduce dependency on single suppliers and diversify supply chains. For strategically sensitive procurement categories, the draft opens the door to preferential treatment for European or trade-aligned suppliers.

Berlin – – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission today unveiled the EU Public Procurement Act (PPA), a comprehensive proposal to modernize European procurement law, drawing an immediate response from Germany's pharmaceutical industry association BPI.

BPI demands supply security as binding procurement criterion

Dr. Kai Joachimsen, Chief Executive of the BPI (Bundesverband der Pharmazeutischen Industrie), said the European Commission must make supply security a mandatory guideline for pharmaceutical procurement. He stated the goal must be supply sovereignty, achieved through strong production capacities in Europe and diversified, resilient supply chains.