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Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Able Aerospace Services Provides Global Customer Support

Able signs exclusive service agreement with Eagle Copters
Posted on March 3, 2017; Able Aerospace Services Press Release
- See more at: Vertical Mag
Able Aerospace Services, a Textron Inc. company, has been selected by Eagle Copters Ltd. as the exclusive provider for component repair, overhaul and exchange services for helicopter installations in Australasia and Chile. The agreement includes support for a significant mixed fleet of aircraft in these regions. It will also help Eagle Copters expand its existing Bell Helicopter certified service facility (CSF) rating to include broad overhaul solutions for the Australasia market.

“Eagle Copters is widely known and respected for its superior global customer support,” said John Jackson, vice president of business development for Able Aerospace Services. “Our relationship underscores the industry’s growing need for solutions that help safely, efficiently and cost-effectively maintain aircraft fleets. We’re honored that Eagle has selected Able to continue – and even further develop – this major market advantage.” Eagle Copters is one of the world’s premier helicopter leasing and sales organizations, with services that include product development and engineering.
The company is based in Calgary, Alberta, with additional global locations in Chile and Australasia.
Eagle Copters has retained a comprehensive Bell Helicopter CSF designation in Canada since Bell’s inception of the rating, and in Chile for more than three years. In March, it was awarded a Bell Helicopter CSF designation for field maintenance services in the Australasia market. With support from Able, Eagle Copters will expand its CSF designation to include an overhaul rating.

Able’s broad aftermarket maintenance and support capabilities include Federal Aviation Administration approved repairs, exchanges and in-house specialized services ranging from electroplating, chemical processing, machining and grinding to NDT testing, hydraulics and bearings services. All in-house work is completed by a collaborative staff of mechanics, engineers, DER experts and customer service specialists, from Able’s 200,000-square-foot headquarters located at - Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona

Hot Off The EIN Press Wire

ETW to Hold Quarterly CEO Forum on May 4th at ASU Skysong Innovation Center

ETW and Able Aerospace CEO Lee Benson will lead the May forum, Standard Work for Leaders Source: EIN news.com

MESA, ARIZONA, UNITED STATES, March 7, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Execute to Win (ETW) is pleased to continue our series of quarterly forums designed to share experiences and best practices regarding business optimization and leadership amongst the Phoenix valley's top C-level executives. Each forum's primary discussion topic builds upon the tools and best practices learned in previous forums, creating a solid foundation for repeat attendees.
The May forum will be held at Skysong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, and will explore how to apply practical leadership application training to develop the very best leaders for your organization.
ETW and Able Aerospace Services CEO, Lee Benson, explains the importance of continuous development of the leaders in your organization, "If you do not have the right approach to continuous leadership development that reinforces what causes improvements in customer experience and profitability to happen you won't get very far."

About The Speaker:
Lee Benson started his journey into driving operational excellence in 1993. He grew a 3 employee company into a world class 500+ employee aerospace company called Able Engineering & Component Services Inc. (Able), which had an unprecedented annual growth rate for the last 14 years of 20%+ CAGR on average before the company was sold to Textron Inc. in 2016. With a firm belief that culture is a main driver of successful performance and results, Lee applies these principles in his own organizations and continues to attain extraordinary results. He aims to share that success through teaching this applied methodology.
Attendees of the forum will have the opportunity to network with other local executives, and learn how to establish a baseline for the success of their leaders, how to assess leadership capability, and how to conduct practical application leadership training in their own organizations.

Event Details:
Schedule:
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Registration/Refreshments
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Workshop and Forum

Location:
Skysong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center
1365 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Bldg: Skysong 3
Room: 130 Synergy I

Attire:
Business Casual

RSVP:
Please visit event page to register.

You may also send your response to celeste.suarez@etw.com with your name, company and title to reserve your seat.

Zane's Rod & Custom Design: Good Neighbor on First Avenue/Center Street

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GETTING VERY 'SOCIAL' > City of Mesa Economic Development Advisory Board

'Fearless leader' and Chairman of the Not-So-Bored EDAB Bill Jabjiniak was all around the meeting chamber before this monthly get-together of 12 mixing with nearly everyone while a few late arrivals grabbed their coffee and got down to business almost immediately moving rapidly ahead with Item 4 with all the feel-good vibe all the table.

4. Discussion with Vice Mayor Luna
David Luna right away got into comfortable one-on-one talk with members that he knows, mentioning in detail his appreciation for ongoing good relations. For those he didn't yet know, he right away established a rapport, continuing a recitation of all the good things going in District 5.

5. Visit Mesa Update

Marc Garcia CEO of VisitMesa.com, seen in the image to the left, facing members of the board, went on to present a good up-tick in Hotel and Overnight Lodging resulting from using social media more than print media to advertise Mesa to wider markets both national and international partnerships with new branding from their public relations campaigns by AOL/Millennial Media. He and Michelle Streeter together provided more details of success using 'spheres of influence' generated by Facebook.

Falcon Strategic Plan Update

Rich Adams making a point

Don't believe it - the Mesa Sport Complex IS NOT DEAD

Getting Spooked Yet? WIKILEAKS DATA DUMP > A Mega-Trove of CIA Secrets

This just out

On Tuesday morning, Wikileaks published a data trove that appears to contain extensive documentation of secret Central Intelligence Agency spying operations and hacking tools.

Codenamed “Vault 7,” the file contains 8,761 documents, and Wikileaks claims that it represents “the majority of [the CIA] hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation.”
Initial expert reactions are that the data seems legitimate, and will create deep problems for the CIA on many fronts. The leak has the potential both to undermine the organization’s ability to carry out offensive intelligence gathering, and to damage its international public perception.

The leak exposes CIA capabilities and tools like unpatched iOS and Android vulnerabilities, strategies for compromising end-to-end encrypted chats (though not undermining the encryption itself), bugs in Windows, and even ability to turn Samsung smart TVs into listening devices.
“From what I can tell, this seems to be legitimate,” says David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, who formerly worked at the NSA and with the Marine Corps’ signals intelligence unit. “It shows expansive capabilities of the CIA and divulges NSA tools as well.

. . . But a lot of it seems to be missing, as far as direct codebase used for these.” Wikileaks says it redacted much of that more specific information.
Those redactions, in part, make it difficult to ascertain just how comprehensive the leaked information is. In spite of Wikileaks’ claims, it is only a small fraction of the CIA’s total arsenal. WikiLeaks itself has said it will release additional CIA data dumps in the future.

“I don’t think that this is everything. It likely represents a very limited view of the overall network exploitation program,” says Jake Williams, founder of the threat intelligence firm Rendition Infosec.
The Wikileaks dump includes no mention of iOS 10, for instance, an operating system that has been on the market for months. “But there’s a lot here and it’s likely going to be very damaging to US international relations.”
Given the polarized political climate in the US, and President Donald Trump’s recent feuds with the intelligence community, the leak highlights a tension between the importance of checking intelligence overreach, and the need to maintain US defense and intelligence-gathering capabilities abroad.

It also keeps WikiLeaks once again at the center of a potential firestorm—one that will likely disrupt the CIA’s operations.
“Who knows how it got leaked,” says Kennedy. “But honestly if I were a foreign nation and published this, I would think that this could completely reduce our capabilities abroad.”
Disclosing software vulnerability spy tools hinders intelligence organizations because it gives manufacturers the opportunity to patch their code, and close the backdoors that allowed spies access. Protecting users necessitates that process, as does the reality that intelligence groups can’t ensure that some malicious actor isn’t also using an active exploit. If the CIA can get into a device, so can a black hat hacker.
During the Obama administration, the White House worked to create the Vulnerabilities Equities Process, which attempted to create a framework the intelligence community could use to motivate disclosure of as many vulnerabilities as possible, while still allowing agencies to retain some undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities when they concluded it was in the public interest.
The CIA leak appears to validate criticism that the process lacks transparency, and doesn’t achieve its goals.
“We were [estimating] the total arsenal of zero days was in the dozens and that was for everyone, including NSA,” says Jason Healey, a cyber conflict researcher at Columbia University. “So if you find dozens in here alone, then that means we only guessed part of the total.”

Vault 7: WikiLeaks Release: 'Year Zero' Largest Ever Publication on CIA ...

Getting spooked yet ???

Published on Mar 7, 2017

WikiLeaks has published what it claims is the largest ever batch of confidential documents on the CIA, revealing the breadth of the agency’s ability to hack smartphones and popular social media messaging apps such as WhatsApp.

READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/84zw

Mesa City Council Meeting Mon 06 March 2017

NO VIEWS AND LOTS OF EMPTY SEATS .... lots of people in Mayor's photo opp
As usual items of consent agenda flash by and get approved fast
Approved Minutes for this meeting can be found here >> http://apps.mesaaz.gov/meetingarchive/ccminutes

Published on Mar 7, 2017

Duration: 09:37