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Birmingham, Ala. – September 29, 2026 -- The Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association (DIPRA) has promoted Gregg Horn to Senior Vice President of Research and Josh Blount to Vice President of Technical Resources, elevating two veteran staffers to lead the trade group's core technical operations.

Horn takes charge of research after 40 years with the association

Horn joined DIPRA in 1986 as a Regional Engineer, became Director of Regional Engineers in 1990, and served as Vice President of Technical Resources since 2013. In his new role, he will lead DIPRA's technical research efforts, Standards activities and comparative studies of substitute materials, while facilitating the Technical Committee, Environmental Subcommittee and other groups addressing research on Ductile iron pipe. He is a Life Member of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and has served on committees within AWWA, ASCE, ASTM and ISO.

West Des Moines, Iowa – September 29, 2026 -- Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, will expand its West Des Moines manufacturing facility by 14,000 square feet in a multi-million-dollar investment to meet rising commercial and military aviation demand.

Facility ships more than 25,000 engine nozzles monthly

The site produces advanced fuel distribution systems, including original equipment components and spare parts, and operates as an FAA-certified Part 145 repair station for engine nozzle systems and powerplant accessories.

Expansion targets delivery performance and job growth

James Bagg, vice president and general manager of Engine Control Systems at Collins Aerospace, said the investment strengthens fuel-distribution technology for commercial and military aviation and will add jobs to meet customer demand.

New York – September 29, 2026 -- 120/80 Health Group has logged its eighth consecutive year of record growth, fueled by new client wins and deepening relationships across healthcare and life sciences.

Top-10 biopharma and diagnostic firms sign on for AI-driven work

The firm added multiple category-leading clients in 2026 and began working with several top-10 global biopharmaceutical and diagnostic companies applying AI to drug, test and device development. The agency has shifted from brand-awareness communications for early-stage digital health startups to a strategic consultancy serving businesses from pre-Series A through publicly traded companies.

Dallas – – September 29, 2026 -- TrendAI, the enterprise AI security unit of Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), has entered private preview with TrendAI Vision One Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery, a service that pairs an agentic AI engine with validation from the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), described as the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program.

Engine outperforms rivals on CyberGym leaderboard

The service runs on an agentic system code-named AESIR, built primarily on Anthropic models, and deployed and operated on Amazon Bedrock from Amazon Web Services. When tested against the CyberGym benchmarking framework, the engine scored higher than both single-model and other agentic systems on the leaderboard. TrendAI states internal benchmarking shows its models identify more true-positive vulnerabilities with fewer false positives than leading vulnerability scanning and static analysis tools.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – – September 29, 2026 -- IGEL has signed a strategic distribution agreement with Adistec to bring its Adaptive Secure Endpoint Platform into Latin America, the companies announced at Omnissa ONE 2026. The deal marks IGEL's formal market entry into the region and adds Adistec as a new regional distribution partner tasked with technical enablement, training, and go-to-market support for resellers, system integrators, and technology service providers.

New York – – September 29, 2026 -- DailyPay has introduced a deductions method for its On-Demand Pay service, making it the only large-scale provider offering both full-funding and deductions options to employers.

Deductions method lets employers recoup pay transfers through standard payroll withholding

Under the new deductions option, On-Demand Pay transfers are recovered from an employee's paycheck via a standard payroll deduction rather than full upfront funding by the employer. DailyPay says the model integrates with existing Human Capital Management, payroll and time management systems without disrupting current setups.

Cleveland – September 29, 2026 -- Kurv, a Cleveland-based payments platform, has renewed its partnership with the Cleveland Browns for the 2026 NFL season, extending a multi-year marketing and community relationship between the two organizations.

Kurv secures branded visibility across weekly Browns media sessions

Under the renewal, Kurv will sponsor the backdrop used during the Browns' weekly player and coach interviews, with Kurv-branded imagery appearing Wednesday through Friday at the CrossCountry Mortgage Campus throughout the regular season.

Reston, Va. – – September 29, 2026 -- Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) unveiled UpHold EffectTM Agentic SOC Automation, a new capability using AI agents to triage cybersecurity alerts around the clock for federal security operations center teams, addressing a surge in alert volume driven by automated adversary attacks.

AI agents investigate threats while analysts retain final control over actions

The system works continuously to triage incoming alerts, gather contextual data and assemble findings for human analyst review. Customers determine the scope of AI authority, deciding whether the technology can only recommend actions or is permitted to execute them directly, based on mission requirements and risk tolerance.

Every AI decision generates an auditable record documenting what the system observed, concluded and proposed or executed, according to Leidos.

Chattanooga, Tenn. – September 29, 2026 -- Fenix24 has deployed its Argos99 recoverability intelligence platform across more than 200 enterprise environments, now monitoring over 2.5 million assets and servers worldwide, the company announced.

Argos99 platform expands to 200-plus client environments worldwide

The SaaS platform, built from lessons across more than 500 real ransomware recoveries, maps every asset, dependency, backup, identity, and policy state governing an organization's recovery capability. Unlike earlier tools that focused on asset visibility alone, Argos99 reads policies alongside live data to flag drift from required configurations. Gartner named Fenix24 a Cool Vendor in its September 2026 Coolest Vendor Innovations in Cyber Resilience report, specifically citing the Argos99 platform.

Scottsdale, Ariz. – September 29, 2026 -- The American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) will open applications October 1 for its ninth round of massage school grants funded by Massage Envy, offering ten $10,000 awards totaling $100,000. The fall cycle brings Massage Envy's cumulative funding of the program to $550,000.

Massage Envy doubles annual grant capacity in 2026

The program now distributes 10 grants per cycle in both spring and fall, up from five per cycle in prior years, effectively doubling annual grant availability for accredited massage schools.

Accredited schools can apply through October 31

Eligible massage schools must submit an online application via AMTA detailing how grant funds would support school programs and students. The application window runs October 1–31, 2026.