MRO Constant Aviation To Open 74,500 Sq Ft Facility @ PMGA

MRO Adds New Location with Addition of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Hangar
CLEVELAND, OHIO — May 8, 2017 – Constant Aviation, offering full-service maintenance, repair, and overhaul with a nationwide network, today announced they have reached an agreement to open a new location in Mesa, Arizona.
Source: Constant Aviation/Media News

Located at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, the state-of-the-art facility contains 74,500 total square feet of space, with 50,000 square feet of total hangar space, fully optimized for MRO operations.







Stephen Maiden, President, Constant Aviation

Constant Aviation appointed Stan Younger to serve as regional Vice President, responsible for overseeing the full implementation of the new site, and Scott Sweeny to oversee site operations. Stephen Maiden, President and CEO of Constant Aviation, advised, “Our goal is to have the Mesa location operational in the third quarter of 2017. We will be working diligently to identify and hire top talent, as well as secure all necessary equipment.”
With existing locations in Cleveland, Orlando, and Las Vegas, the addition of Mesa, Arizona will be Constant Aviation’s second location on the West Coast.
 Maiden noted, “Our Las Vegas facility will maintain operations, focusing on unscheduled maintenance and AOG response, as well as retain its Embraer Authorized Service Center status. We are excited to be entering the next phase in Constant’s journey to becoming the top performing MRO in the nation.”

About Constant Aviation
Constant Aviation is a leading expert in aircraft maintenance and one of the fastest-growing MROs in the U.S. with an unsurpassed commitment to meeting the changing needs of the airline industry. Customers rely on the company’s dedicated team of experts for a comprehensive range of services, including scheduled inspections, repairs, component testing, avionics systems and much more.

Published on Feb 15, 2016 Find out what Service means to the Constant Aviation Team

At its state-of-the-art facilities, Constant Aviation provides the personal attention and service of an in-house, on-site maintenance team with the capabilities, experience and expertise of a national network of facilities and partners. In every maintenance event, Constant Aviation enhances its customers’ bottom line by maximizing aircraft availability, enhancing predictability and minimizing the cost of operating an aircraft. The company operates a factory-authorized service center for Embraer Legacy/135/145 series aircraft. Through Air Services, customers receive innovative distribution and supply chain management solutions as well.

"We started with a vision for Constant to become a specialized and unique company. Today, they’re one of the best aircraft rebuilders, modification, structural repair and insurance experts in the industry. It’s in their DNA, so they have really carved a unique niche for themselves."

— Kenneth C. Ricci, Principal, Directional Aviation Capital

Source: Directional Aviation Portfolio

Constant Aviation has locations at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cuyahoga County Airport, Orlando Sanford International Airport, and Las Vegas International Airport. Constant specializes in airframe and engine maintenance, major repairs, avionics, interior refurbishment, paint, parts distribution and accessory services. As one of the fastest growing MRO’s in the country, Constant Aviation understands the importance of aircraft availability, predictability and minimizing operational costs for their customers. Constant Aviation has raised the bar in aircraft maintenance expectations and provides customers with a one-stop shop option when it comes to maintenance events. For more information, please visit www.constantaviation.com or call 216.261.7119.  Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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Data Recovery > IO Phoenix Trying To Beat-Out Microsoft's Mesa Global Command Center

The high-stakes game is on for players in Arizona's Silicon Desert here in The Valley Sun . . not quite a match and maybe playing in different leagues, but there's room for all.
According to a report from DataCenterDynamics in Feb 2016
IO purchased approximately nine acres of land to the south of the existing facility earlier this month. The company envisions a building that has been designed to house 600 pre-fabricated BaseLayer Core data center modules  modules on top of each other – something it says is a first for the industry. The newest data center will set the standard for state-of-the-art infrastructure that supports colocation and cloud services. It also demonstrates the company’s commitment to continue to invest in its hometown community.”

This headline hit industry new today:

IO gets go ahead for three-story $500m data centre

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By João Marques Lima Published: 08:31, 16 May, 2017 Updated: 08:31, 16 May, 2017

Source: Data Economy

Renewable energy to power large campus expansion in one of the world’s hottest data centre destinations.

IO has been given permission to expand its data centre campus in Phoenix, Arizona, in an investment tipped to reach $500m.

 

Some other details from The Stack emerged late yesterday:

Phoenix agrees to $500M IO data centre expansion

Nicky Cappella Mon 15 May 2017 4.53pm

The City Council has approved a $500 million expansion of the IO Data Center campus located in Phoenix, Arizona. The city agreed to spend $359,000 to improve the infrastructure of the site, prior to IO commencing construction of the new facility.

IO purchased a 9-acre site last February, adjacent to its current facility, for $8.5 million USD. IO President and founder Anthony Wanger said that the creation of a three-story, modular data center facility would enable the company to deploy over 600 new modules, significantly expanding the infrastructure capacity for local customers.
The existing IO Phoenix facility is a $200 million USD building that houses 10 separate data centers. The new, $500 million data center will be a standalone building constructed of pre-fabricated modules, using BaseLayer indoor Core modules.
The new building will use 100% renewable energy, which Wanger said is important to his company.
“We continue to focus on energy efficiency,” he said. “We build the most highly-efficient, highly-resilient data centers for the most demanding customers around the world, from CBS Interactive to Goldman Sachs. We continue to pursue access and market pricing for renewable energy. We use a lot of electricity and it’s important to us. We are continuing on behalf of our customers to pursue renewable energy.”
Initially, the company expected to break ground in 2016 and open the new data center in 2017, as part of a six-year plan to expand IO in the Phoenix metro area.

Earlier this year, data center giant Equinix announced that it had acquired IO’s data center in Slough, outside of London, and would rename the facility LD10. IO still operates data center facilities in Phoenix, as well as Singapore, Edison, New Jersey and Dayton, Ohio.

 

American Traffic Solutions @ Waypoint Riverview Up To Get $5.4M Baltimore Contract

That's the story published yesterday in Baltimore Brew but Hold On! There's some interesting details how this all works in Baltimore . . . take a look after into

Xerox subsidiary and Arizona firm set to operate speed camera program

by Mark Reutter 7:20 pm EST 15 May 2017

Nearly $10 million is headed to two vendors to restart the troubled program. A surprise winner: public relations guru Sandy Hillman who was a 'Money Bundler' for the mayor.

 

 

"The Pugh administration is set to award nearly $10 million to relaunch Baltimore’s problem-plagued speed and red light camera programs designed to catch errant drivers.

American Traffic Solutions of Mesa, AZ., will be paid $5.4 million to operate the city’s speed cameras under a contract coming before the Board of Estimates on Wednesday, according to the board’s agenda.
At the same time, Conduent State & Local Solutions, a subsidiary of Xerox, will be paid $4.17 million to run the red light program under a parallel contract.
“Splitting the award between two vendors,” according to the city Department of Transportation, “provides assurance that if one vendor fails to perform, another vendor under contract [is] ready to to provide these services. . .
A total of 36 fixed and portable cameras are expected to be operating on city streets over the next month. They will include 10 red light cameras, 10 fixed speed cameras, 10 portable speed cameras and 6 cameras designed to detect commercial trucks using car-only streets.
Both contracts will be in effect for five years, according to the agenda, with two 2-year renewal options.
Traffic cameras deliver money to cities where they get installed:

Anticipated First Year Return??

Mayor Pugh has budgeted $8 million in revenues from the electronic ticketing of drivers who run red lights or drive too fast in school zones in her new budget, which begins July 1.

 

 

 

How did ATS come up for the contract award?

the biggest winner of the 16-month-long process, American Traffic Solutions, was represented by Frank D. Boston III, who was paid $20,000 to lobby city officials between February 22, 2016 to December 31, 2016, according to his self-reported statement for 2016.

How's that work, again??? . . . and note this

The PR firm was a "Money Bundler" for the mayor

Another clear winner of the upcoming ticketing program is Sandra S. “Sandy” Hillman.
Her Towson public relations firm, Sandy Hillman Communications, is in line for a $625,000 slice of the red light contract apparently to establish a “public information and outreach campaign (PI&O), public relations and advertising,” according to city DOT.
She was awarded the money as a woman-owned enterprise under the city’s minority business program.
Hillman and her husband, Robert, a former city labor commissioner, have been important money bundlers for Mayor Pugh.

A New Era For Transnational AZ-Mexico Tech Development

Chairman of Mesa-based Urbix, Nico Cuevas Ushers in a New Graphene Era

 by Maciej Heyman

military-technologies.net

Phoenix, Arizona – May 15, 2017 – At a TEDx event in Hermosillo, Mexico early in May, Phoenix-based Urbix Resources co-founder and chairman, Nico Cuevas, heralded in the Graphene Age.

“We are entering a new era,” Cuevas told a full and enthusiastic audience at the Auditorio del COBACH. What is coming, Cuevas says, is a “wave of innovation that will allow a social and economic development only comparable to the Industrial Revolution.”
As Cuevas points out, graphene makes possible the next level of technological development, including conductive inks for the production of ultra thin and ultralight circuitry, radically thin mobile phones, super-light bulletproof vests, water purification membranes, light and highly efficient batteries and other innovations.

The challenge, Cuevas stresses, is that, while the demand for this super-material is growing at a phenomenal rate as ever more high tech uses are found, at present, “the graphene market has a huge bottleneck: industrial scale production.”
By popular estimate, in 2016, only a few hundred kilograms of graphene were produced world-wide. And much of that, Cuevas maintains, was not even pristine graphene, but a different substance called graphene oxide.
“In reality,” says Cuevas, “it is very difficult to compare graphene oxide directly with graphene due to the fact that the production processes and applications can be very different.”

That said, Cuevas is clear on what is better. “Imagine you go to the most prestigious vineyard in the world and order a bottle of their best vintage. You buy the bottle, take it home, open it, and then realize that what they sold to you was a purple juice with mashed grapes, something that is not wine yet. That in my opinion is graphene oxide.”
Blogger Note:
A rash of recent market estimates towards the end of last year put the international market for a graphene in the range of a few hundred million dollars.

Urbix Resources, the company Cuevas co-founded in 2014, currently “has the monthly capacity to produce eight kilograms of pristine graphene” in the company’s state-of-the-art lab in Mesa, Arizona.
According to international graphene production estimates, Cuevas says, that could be half of what was produced worldwide last year. More, says Cuevas, their methods are green and the company uses “a graphite purification method that doesn’t use hydrofluoric acid, a graphene exfoliation with poly-ionic liquids that are 95-percent recyclable, and has an efficiency of 97-percent.” And that production capability is growing.

In addition to the Mesa-based lab, Urbix has a milling facility in Hermosillo, Mexico where the company is mining the source material for what Cuevas feels are some of the highest grade graphite products currently available.
The company recently completed their second round of financing and is moving into position to take their place as one of the top graphene-producing organizations in the world.

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Vault 7: More Real Releases from Wikileaks

Add these names to your hi-tech vocabulary and find out what they are: Cicada is up next on June 1
After Midnight
Assassin
Gremlins + AlphaGremlin
Octopus
Archimedes
Scribble
Source: Vault 7 Projects

 

After Midnight

12 May 2017

Today, May 12th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes "After Midnight" and "Assassin", two CIA malware frameworks for the Microsoft Windows platform.

"After Midnight" allows operators to dynamically load and execute malware payloads on a target machine. The main controller disguises as a self-persisting Windows Service DLL and provides secure execution of "Gremlins" via a HTTPS based Listening Post (LP) system called "Octopus". Once installed on a target machine AM will call back to a configured LP on a configurable schedule, checking to see if there is a new plan for it to execute.

If there is, it downloads and stores all needed components before loading all new gremlins in memory. "Gremlins" are small AM payloads that are meant to run hidden on the target and either subvert the functionality of targeted software, survey the target (including data exfiltration) or provide internal services for other gremlins. The special payload "AlphaGremlin" even has a custom script language which allows operators to schedule custom tasks to be executed on the target machine.

"Assassin" is a similar kind of malware; it is an automated implant that provides a simple collection platform on remote computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Once the tool is installed on the target, the implant is run within a Windows service process.

"Assassin" (just like "AfterMidnight") will then periodically beacon to its configured listening post(s) to request tasking and deliver results. Communication occurs over one or more transport protocols as configured before or during deployment.. .

 

Archimedes

5 May 2017

Today, May 5th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes "Archimedes", a tool used by the CIA to attack a computer inside a Local Area Network (LAN), usually used in offices. It allows the re-directing of traffic from the target computer inside the LAN through a computer infected with this malware and controlled by the CIA. This technique is used by the CIA to redirect the target's computers web browser to an exploitation server while appearing as a normal browsing session.

 

 

The document illustrates a type of attack within a "protected environment" as the the tool is deployed into an existing local network abusing existing machines to bring targeted computers under control and allowing further exploitation and abuse. . . 

 

Scribbles

28 April 2017

Today, April 28th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes the documentation and source code for CIA's "Scribbles" project, a document-watermarking preprocessing system to embed "Web beacon"-style tags into documents that are likely to be copied by Insiders, Whistleblowers, Journalists or others. The released version (v1.0 RC1) is dated March, 1st 2016 and classified SECRET//ORCON/NOFORN until 2066.

Scribbles is intended for off-line preprocessing of Microsoft Office documents. For reasons of operational security the user guide demands that "[t]he Scribbles executable, parameter files, receipts and log files should not be installed on a target machine, nor left in a location where it might be collected by an adversary."

 

Promises Still Make My Dreams

. . . but every now and then it's good to spin-off for new dreams, better dreams

Wanna Cry More?? Where's That XP 'Kill Switch' ???

One person stopped it

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