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  • MIL-OSI Economics: Introducing Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot

    Source: Microsoft

    Headline: Introducing Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot

    Introducing two, first-of-their-kind reasoning agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

    Today, we’re excited to introduce two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents for work: Researcher and Analyst. They analyze vast amounts of information with secure, compliant access to your work data—your emails, meetings, files, chats, and more—and the web to deliver highly-skilled expertise on demand.

    Researcher helps you tackle complex, multi-step research at work—delivering insights with greater quality and accuracy than previously possible. It combines OpenAI’s deep research model with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s advanced orchestration and deep search capabilities. You can use Researcher to build a detailed go-to-market strategy based on the context of all your work data and broader competitive data from the web; identify whitespace opportunities for a new product based on emerging trends and internal data; or create a comprehensive quarterly report for a client review detailing work to date along with the latest market analysis. And Researcher can leverage third-party data via connectors to enhance its capabilities and provide more comprehensive insights—allowing it to integrate data from external sources, such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, Confluence, and more, directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot. It can even pull in data through other agents such as Sales Chat.

    See more examples of Researcher in action.

    Analyst thinks like a skilled data scientist, so you can go from raw data to insights in minutes. Built on OpenAI’s o3-mini reasoning model and optimized to do advanced data analysis at work, Analyst uses chain-of-thought reasoning to progress through problems iteratively, taking as many steps as necessary to refine its reasoning and provide a high-quality answer that mirrors human analytical thinking. It can run Python to tackle your most complex data queries—and you can view the code it’s running in real time and check its work. For example, you can use Analyst to turn raw data scattered across multiple spreadsheets into a demand forecast for a new product, a visualization of customer purchasing patterns, or a revenue projection.

    See more examples of Analyst in action.

    Researcher and Analyst will start rolling out to customers with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license in April as part of a new “Frontier” program that gives customers early access to new Copilot innovations while they’re still in development.

    Read more about Researcher and Analyst.

    Deep reasoning and agent flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio

    We’re also announcing deep reasoning and agent flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio, a comprehensive platform to easily create, manage, and deploy agents for your unique business needs. Organizations can build deep reasoning into their agents to execute complex and multi-faceted business processes, while also using flows to automate processes quickly and predictably. Learn more about these new reasoning capabilities in Copilot Studio.

    And lastly, new capabilities that enable you to build autonomous agents in Copilot Studio are generally available today. Now, agents can act independently, initiate events, and automate complex business tasks.

    IT teams can confidently adopt all these innovations by using the Copilot Control System. It enables intelligent grounding on enterprise data while respecting your organization’s controls, and it empowers IT to govern access and usage of Copilot and agents.

    See Researcher in action

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    See Analyst in action

    Transform every business process with agents

    These announcements further our ambition to empower every employee with a Copilot and transform every business process with agents. With Researcher and Analyst, every employee has access to expertise on demand—right in the flow of work. We can’t wait to see what you do with them.

    Reinvent productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot

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  • MIL-OSI Economics: An advisor in their pocket: Helping smallholder farmers in Malawi thrive with AI

    Source: Microsoft

    Headline: An advisor in their pocket: Helping smallholder farmers in Malawi thrive with AI

    Greater yields and better profits

    Hundreds of Farmer Support Agents (FSAs) have been trained as intermediaries between the tech and the 100,000 households they support. This ensures that farmers without mobile phones will be able to access valuable information. Due to how knowledgeable FSAs are, they’re able to respond with insightful answers that help farmers apply Ulangizi recommendations to any questions they have.

    Most smallholder farmers produce a fraction of their potential yields and this limits their financial mobility, but when they approach farming like a business, their lives often transform for the better. Ulangizi AI is helping them plant more, increase their herds, hire laborers, and improve the economy for their communities. With the chatbot, farmers are learning better ways to care for the right crops and produce more bountiful harvests.  “Being able to save their livelihood is dependent on how quickly farmers know the challenges and how to solve them,” says Ama Akuamoah, Director of Market Engagement, Opportunity International.

    The chatbot provides farmers with details about how much seed they need per acre along with forecasts, giving them an advantage over severe and unpredictable weather patterns. And when their crops are thriving, market data helps them know when to harvest and sell for the greatest profit. Opportunity’s FSAs are also teaching farmers how to steward the land in more sustainable and regenerative ways. With this knowledge, farmers will have more free time to learn new skills or start another business, and they can use the extra money to take care of their families and their homes.

    Opportunity International anticipates that investments in AI will cut the cost of training new FSAs by more than two-thirds, making it possible to grow its FSA program even more. Ulangizi AI will help educate new FSAs much faster and empower them with information that helps millions of smallholder farmers. Ulangizi AI is just the beginning of how Opportunity is leveraging technology. They’re dedicated to developing a suite of AI-powered solutions that support agriculture, education, and upward mobility in Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, and beyond.

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  • MIL-OSI Economics: Samsung Launches 2025 Neo QLED TVs Powered by Samsung Vision AI

    Source: Samsung

    Samsung Electronics America today announced availability of its 2025 Samsung Neo QLED 8K and Samsung Neo QLED 4K TV series. The new lineup offers stunning visuals and immersive sound, and are the first to feature Samsung Vision AI1 with smarter, adaptive features that reimagine what Samsung TVs can do.
    Samsung Vision AI pairs AI-enhanced picture and sound for maximized performance with personalized experiences designed to help you engage more deeply with your content and enjoy a viewing experience catered just to you.
    This includes everything from learning more about the actors on screen and receiving content recommendations with a new “Click to Search” feature, to real-time translations of what you’re watching with subtitles in your preferred language using a new “Live Translate” feature. You can even control your TV with hand motions while wearing your Galaxy Watch, thanks to Universal Gestures – and much more.

    “We know great picture and immersive sound are just the beginning of what shoppers are looking for when choosing a TV today,” said Lydia Cho, Head of Product, Home Electronics at Samsung Electronics America. “In fact, enhanced connectivity, smart features and ease of use are more important than ever. Samsung Vision AI transforms your TV to bring together the best of it all, delivering AI-powered innovations that reinvent what’s possible from your Samsung TV.”
    Neo QLED 8K: Our Best Picture with 8K Resolution

    Featuring two new models (QN990F, QN900F) our Neo QLED 8K series delivers an exceptional glare free picture with Quantum Matrix Mini LEDs, immersive sound and breakthrough experiences, all powered by Samsung Vision AI.
    Built with our most advanced NQ8 AI Gen3 Processor2, the QN990F series (65” – 98” screen class sizes) leverages 8K AI Upscaling Pro3to transform SD, HD or even 4K content into the sharpest and smoothest picture of any Samsung TV.
    The QN990F also integrates our award-winning Glare-Free technology, offering stunning 8K visuals across dark and bright rooms. Plus, the all-new Wireless One Connect Box4 makes installation and connectivity a breeze, wirelessly transmitting your inputs from up to 30 feet away.
    Motion Xcelerator 240Hz5 ensures blazing fast motion clarity for gaming and sports, while AI Motion Enhancer Pro6 smooths the motion of fast-moving visuals and text, so you can always keep your eye on the ball.
    Dedicated top-channel speakers power Dolby Atmos sound, while Object Tracking Sound Pro7 provides dynamic, realistic audio that follows the movements on screen – like creepy footsteps in a horror movie or cars zooming around a track.

    The QN900F series (65” – 85” screen class sizes) offers 8K AI Upscaling8 that enhances any content up to 8K resolution. It will also incorporate Glare-Free technology and feature a new Metal Frame design that beautifully compliments your space and elevates your aesthetic.
    Motion Xcelerator 165Hz offers smooth visuals and blistering speeds. And, Object Tracking Sound+ with Dolby Atmos takes you inside each scene with sound that moves in sync with the content on your screen.
    The QN900F series (65” and 75” class sizes) is available starting today, and the QN990F series and 85” Class QN900F will be rolling out soon.
    QN990F (65” – 98”)

    98” Class QN990F: $39,999
    85” Class QN990F: $8,499
    75” Class QN990F: $6,499
    65” Class QN990F: $5,499

    QN900F (65” – 85”)

    85” Class QN900F: $5,499
    75” Class QN900F: $4,299
    65” Class QN900F: $3,299

    Neo QLED 4K: Enjoy Crisp Clarity in Every Scene

    The Samsung 2025 Neo QLED 4K lineup is the most expansive yet, including three model series (QN90F, QN80F, and QN70F), all featuring Quantum Matrix Mini LEDs for stellar brightness and accurate color across every scene.
    The flagship QN90F (43” – 115” screen class sizes) features the upgraded NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor9, which ensures that content always looks its best – improving picture and sound as you watch. The processor upscales10 older content into 4K resolution, while Neo Quantum HDR+11 analyzes each scene to boost brightness and make visuals appear even more realistic.
    Plus, the QN90F will feature our Glare-Free technology, so you can enjoy your favorite content with virtually no glare. Motion Xcelerator 165Hz12 ensures you’ll experience ultra-smooth motion at blazing fast speeds, no matter the genre.
    Both the QN80F (55” – 100” screen class sizes) and QN70F (55” – 85” screen class sizes) feature the NQ4 AI Gen2 Processor for an AI-enhanced 4K picture and optimized sound, as well as 4K AI Upscaling13 and smooth, tear-free gaming with Motion Xcelerator 144Hz.

    And, later this year, we’re further expanding the QN90F and QN80F series in a BIG way. We’ll offer a 100” class size on the QN80F and a 115” class size on the QN90F, our largest ever consumer display. Both of these ultra-large sizes will uniquely leverage Supersize Picture Enhancer14, which optimizes visuals for our largest screens so you can go bigger without the blur.
    The QN90F series and QN80F series are available for purchase starting today, with the QN70F series arriving soon.
    QN90F (43” – 98”)

    98” Class QN90F: $14,999
    85” Class QN90F: $4,499
    75” Class QN90F: $3,299
    65” Class QN90F: $2,699
    55” Class QN90F: $1,999
    50” Class QN90F: $1,499
    43” Class QN90F: $1,399

    QN80F (55” – 85”)

    85” Class QN80F: $3,499
    75” Class QN80F: $2,299
    65” Class QN80F: $1,799
    55” Class QN80F: $1,299

    Samsung Vision AI will power the viewing experience across our Neo QLED 8K, Neo QLED 4K, OLED, The Frame and QLED series, delivering intuitive features like Click to Search15, Live Translate16 and Universal Gestures17 – all of which will help enhance entertainment and simplify interactions with your Samsung TV.
    Also new this year, the Samsung Neo QLED 8K, 4K and QLED lineups will offer access to the Samsung Art Store18, the best way to transform your TV and elevate your home decor with the perfect piece of art for every season, holiday and mood. We’ve seen tremendous success with the Samsung Art Store on The Frame and now we’re excited to bring it to even more Samsung TV owners. Choose from over 3,000 works of art, including exclusives from the world’s leading artists, museums and galleries. Discover work from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Vincent van Gogh, The Met, MoMA, Art Basel and many more.
    And, our integrated Samsung Tizen OS now offers up to seven years19 of updates, ensuring you’ll have easy access to the latest apps, services and AI features – all from a fast and responsive interface on your Samsung TV.

    Across our massive portfolio of screens, you can also experience endless content with 2,700+ free channels, including 400+ Samsung TV Plus20 premium channels. That’s not to mention console-free gaming, with Samsung Gaming Hub21 serving up thousands of games in partnership with major players like Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce NOW, Amazon Luna, and more.
    Plus, our TVs integrate with 340+ smart home brands via SmartThings22 and even unlock exclusive features when you pair with select Samsung devices. All the while, Samsung Knox23 keeps your personal data secure with triple-layer protection.

    No matter which Samsung screen you choose, you can shop confidently from the #1 global TV brand for 19 years running.
    On the audio front, Samsung is also announcing the launch of select Q-series soundbars, including the flagship HW-Q990F ($1,799) and HW-Q800F ($999).
    For more on the latest Samsung TV and audio products, visit www.samsung.com/us/.

    MIL OSI Economics –

  • MIL-OSI Russia: “Studying at the University of Bologna is very different from how we study at the HSE”

    Translartion. Region: Russians Fedetion –

    Source: State University Higher School of Economics – State University Higher School of Economics –

    Alina Pakhomova

    Photo from personal archive

    Alina Pakhomova, 4th year student of the educational program “Computer Science and Engineering» MIEM HSE, studied for six months at the oldest university in Europe — the University of Bologna. She went to Italy under the academic mobility program, and upon returning to Moscow, she told about her impressions of life and study in another country, leisure, new friends and, of course, the famous Italian cuisine.

    University of Bologna and the educational system

    The University of Bologna is considered the oldest university in the Western world, where Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Umberto Eco studied. In addition, it is one of the top universities in Italy. Therefore, when I saw that Bologna was on the list of universities to which HSE had the opportunity to apply, there was no doubt: I applied only there. Besides, the programs at other universities, to be honest, were not very suitable.

    When you go on mobility, you replace your courses with those at the university where you will study, regardless of the field. I am in my 4th year of bachelor’s degree, and it turned out that I studied on master’s courses, since they were the best fit for replacement. In addition, there are more master’s programs in English than bachelor’s, which means there is more choice.

    The semester lasts from September to February. Exams were, as in HSE, in autumn and winter, but, unfortunately, in winter they are there both before and after the New Year. After the free winter holidays at HSE, it was difficult to sit and chat during the winter holidays in Italy…

    Lectures and practical classes

    Studying at the University of Bologna is very different from how we study at the HSE. Classes last three hours, sometimes two. Frankly, you lose focus after the usual hour and a half. In Italy, it is important to sit down after a class and reread the lectures, delve into the material and take notes, otherwise you simply won’t remember anything. At the HSE, seminars are very helpful in consolidating the material, which the University of Bologna doesn’t have.

    There are laboratory works, but, unlike HSE, where you most often do the work at home, and in the practical class you only ask questions or already defend the work, in Bologna they are done by students right in the practical classes and only finished at home, which happens rarely, only if you did not have time.

    Probably my favorite course is Artificial Intelligence in Industry, because it was a course where you delve into how everything works in real life, and lectures were often given by invited lecturers from foreign companies. By the way, in Bologna, another common practice in IT areas is a project as an exam. That is, you just pass one big project, and the grade for it is your final grade for the course.

    Where to live in Bologna

    Housing is hard here. The university does not provide dormitories: they are there, but it is almost impossible to get them. If you do not have 1000 euros for a room in a student co-living, where exchange students from other European countries (Erasmus students) usually live, then welcome to the “Hunger Games”. Here you will not choose an apartment, but the landlord (landlord) will choose the one he likes best from the mass of students who want to rent housing.

    Then you need to look for either a double (bed in a double room) or a single (bed in a single room). The prices are 350 and 500 euros respectively. Another option is to join someone and rent the entire apartment.

    Tip 1: try to look for housing through acquaintances or students who were on mobility before you, and do it in advance. Also look through chats, as students often post the housing they lived in and find a replacement.

    Tip 2: Don’t be upset if you can’t find anything in advance. You can rent temporary accommodation and then continue searching in Bologna itself once you’ve arrived there.

    What did you like most about Italy?

    Here it is easy to arrange a mini-vacation and travel to another city or country. For example, I flew for the weekend to France, Denmark and other European countries, because the tickets cost 15-20 euros (1500-2000 rubles) one way. And the journey takes very little time.

    Speaking about Italy itself, it really helped me slow down. In Moscow, you are constantly in some kind of hustle and bustle, constantly going somewhere on the metro, wasting a lot of time on it. In Bologna, on foot, 20 minutes — and you are already there. Here, it is much easier to meet for a short walk or a get-together in a cafe, invite someone for a coffee before work or for an Aperol after classes.

    How the vision of the future profession has changed

    Before Italy, I thought I had decided on the direction I wanted to develop in. My study and work experience combines several areas: IT, marketing, and events. All this makes me an excellent devrel. But after studying abroad, I realized that I don’t want to stop there. I plan to continue my education in a master’s degree. Now I am most interested in product management in the field of high technologies.

    Communication and extracurricular student life

    People and networking were one of the main goals of my trip. There were 7 of us from HSE who went on mobility, and we didn’t know each other before Italy. But the circumstance of finding ourselves alone in another country and trying to figure out a lot of new rules and bureaucratic requirements really brought us together. In Moscow, we would most likely never have crossed paths, and even if we had, we would hardly have become friends: we are all very different. But in another country, everything is different, the very circumstances of life brought us closer. And communication with completely different people, unlike your usual environment in Moscow, changes you a lot.

    In Europe, there is an organization called ESN (Erasmus Student Network). Their branches are usually in every student city. Either students or graduates work there. They organize various meetings and events for dating, trips and travel with big discounts. They also have partners, and you can get discounts in establishments or companies with an ESN member card (it costs 10 euros). For example, one of the partners is a low-cost airline that provides 10% discounts and free luggage space with an ESN card.

    I wouldn’t say that there is some kind of super-organization of all events, but there are simply a lot of them. The events are mainly aimed at introducing people, uniting them by interests and providing an opportunity to have a good time together. For example, one of the events is The Babel Nights: people gather in different audiences and communicate in a certain language. English, Italian, Spanish, French, German – you can choose whichever is closer to you and go to the right audience. You can also go to the theater together (cheaper with ESN) and to exhibitions. In general, everyone will find something to their liking.

    There are other student clubs. For example, some guys just organized a hiking chat and every Saturday they go somewhere on a short day hike. When I left, they decided to expand and create sub-chats for basketball and volleyball fans.

    It’s easy to meet anyone here, but the common problem is that communication is very superficial. To be honest, sometimes you get tired of the huge amount of small talk.

    Local cuisine and favourite dishes

    Food in Italy is a separate topic. What is interesting here is not so much what food is the most delicious, but how Italians treat their food and the order of eating. Take a cappuccino after 12, order a pizza for two, drink autumn special coffee from Starbucks with pumpkin syrup – get ready for deportation, as we often joked when doing something like this. Italians are very sensitive to their gastronomic culture and really don’t like it when someone doesn’t follow the rules.

    My favorite dishes are: croissant with pistachio, cappuccino and lasagne. I won’t mention pizza and pasta because I feel sick from eating so much of them. I don’t understand how Italians can eat pasta every day. Once we asked a friend: “Are there days when you don’t eat pasta for lunch?” His answer perfectly describes the Italian culture: “Of course, but then I’ll definitely have it for dinner.”

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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Spring Statement 2025 speech

    Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments 3

    Speech

    Spring Statement 2025 speech

    Spring Statement 2025 speech as delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

    Mr Speaker, [political content redacted]. 

    To provide security for working people. 

    And to deliver a decade of national renewal. 

    That work began in July – and I am proud of what we have delivered in just nine months. 

    Restoring stability to our public finances…  

    … giving the Bank of England the foundation to cut interest rates…  

    … three times since the General Election.  

    Rebuilding our public services… 

    … with record investment in our NHS… 

    … bringing waiting lists down for 5 months in a row.   

    And increasing the National Living Wage… 

    … to give 3 million people a pay rise from next week.  

    Now our task is to secure Britain’s future… 

    … in a world that is changing before our eyes.  

    The threat facing our continent was transformed when Putin invaded Ukraine. 

    It has since escalated further…  

    … and continues to evolve rapidly.  

    At the same time, the global economy has become more uncertain…  

    … bringing insecurity at home… 

    … as trading patterns become more unstable… 

    … and borrowing costs rise for many major economies.  

    Mr Speaker, the job of a responsible government is not simply to watch this change. 

    This moment demands an active government. 

    A government not stepping back, but stepping up.  

    A government on the side of working people…  

    … helping Britain to reach its potential.  

    We have the strengths to do just that… 

    … as one of the world’s largest economies … 

    … an ally to trading partners across the globe…  

    … and a hub for global innovation.  

    These strengths… 

    … and the progress we have made so far… 

    … mean we can act quickly and decisively in a more uncertain world… 

    … to secure Britain’s future… 

    … and to deliver prosperity for working people. 

    Mr Speaker, as I set out at the Budget last year… 

    … I am today returning to the House to provide an update on our public finances… 

    … supported by a new forecast from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility… 

    … ahead of a full Spending Review in June. 

    I will then return to the House in the autumn to deliver a budget… 

    … in line with our commitment to deliver just one major fiscal event a year. 

    So let me turn now to the OBR’s forecasts… 

    … and I want to thank Richard Hughes and his team for their dedicated work. 

    The increased global uncertainty has had two consequences. 

    First, on our public finances. 

    And second, on our economy. 

    I will take each in turn.  

    In the autumn, I set out new fiscal rules that would guide this government. 

    These fiscal rules are non-negotiable. 

    They are the embodiment of this government’s unwavering commitment… 

    … to bring stability to our economy… 

    … and to ensure security for working people. 

    [political content redacted]

    But we must earn that trust every single day.  

    The two fiscal rules that I set out at the Budget were… 

    First, our “Stability Rule”, which ensures that public spending is under control… 

    … balancing the current budget by 2029-30… 

    … so that day-to-day spending is met by tax receipts.  

    Second, our “Investment Rule” to drive growth in the economy… 

    … ensuring that net financial debt falls by the end of the forecast period…  

    … while enabling us to invest alongside business. 

    Turning first to the Stability Rule, the OBR’s forecast shows that… 

    … before the steps that I will take in this statement…  

    … the current budget would have been in deficit by £4.1bn in 2029-30… 

    … having been in surplus by £9.9bn in the autumn…  

    … as the UK, alongside our international peers like France and Germany… 

    … has seen the cost of borrowing rise during this period of heightened uncertainty in global markets. 

    As a result of the steps that I am taking today… 

    … I can confirm that I have restored in full our headroom against the “stability rule”…  

    … moving from a deficit of £36.1bn in 2025-26 and £13.4bn in 2026-27… 

    … to a surplus of £6.0bn in 2027-28, £7.1bn in 2028-29 and a surplus of £9.9bn in 2029-30. 

    [political content redacted]

    That means that we are continuing to meet the Stability Rule two years early…  

    … building resilience to shocks in this, a more uncertain world.  

    The OBR forecast that the “investment rule” is also met two years early… 

    … with net financial debt of 82.9% of GDP in 2025-26 and 83.5% in 2026-27… 

    … before falling from 83.4% in 2027-28, to 83.2% in 2028-29 and 82.7% in 2029-30…  

    … providing headroom of £15.1bn in the final year of the forecast… 

    … broadly unchanged from the autumn.  

    [political content redacted]

    … debt interest payments now stands at £105.2bn this year… 

    … Mr Speaker, that is more than we allocate on Defence, the Home Office and Justice combined. 

    [political content redacted]

    So the responsible choice is to reduce our levels of debt and borrowing in the years ahead… 

    … so that we can spend more on the priorities of working people. And that is exactly what this government will do. 

    Mr Speaker. 

    I said that our fiscal rules were non-negotiable. 

    And I meant it. 

    I will always deliver economic stability. 

    And I will always put working people first.  

    [political content redacted]

    I said it at the Budget. 

    And I say it again today. 

    Let me now set out the steps the government has taken.  

    At the Budget we protected working people… 

    … by keeping our promise not to raise their rates of National Insurance, income tax or VAT. 

    At the same time, we began to rebuild our public services…  

    [political content redacted]

    Ours were the right choices, the right choices for stability and the right choices for renewal… 

    … funded by the decisions that we took on tax.  

    As I promised in the autumn, this Statement does not contain any further tax increases.  

    But when working people are paying their taxes, while still struggling with the cost-of-living…  

    …it cannot be right that others are still evading what they rightly owe in tax.  

    In the Budget, I delivered the most ambitious package of measures that we have ever seen… 

    … to cut down on tax evasion… 

    … raising £6.5bn per year by the end of the forecast.  

    Today, I go further… 

    … continuing our investment in cutting-edge technology … 

    … investing in the HMRC’s capacity to crack down on tax avoidance… 

    … and setting out plans to increase the number of tax fraudsters charged every year by 20%. 

    These changes raise a further £1bn… 

    … taking the total revenue raised from reducing tax evasion under this [political content redacted] government to £7.5bn… 

    … figures verified by the Office for Budget Responsibility…  

    … and I want to thank my Honourable Friend the Exchequer Secretary for his continued work in this area.  

    Mr Speaker, last week my Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, set out this government’s plans to reform the welfare system.  

    [political content redacted]

    We believe that if you can work, you should work… 

    … but if you can’t work, you should be properly supported.  

    This government inherited a broken system.  

    More than 1,000 people are qualifying for Personal Independence Payments. 

    And 1 in 8 young people are not in employment, education or training. 

    If we do nothing, we are writing off an entire generation.  

    That cannot be right and we will not stand it.  

    It is a waste of their potential and it is a waste of their futures and we will change it. 

    As my Right Honourable Friend said in her statement last week… 

    … the final costings would be subject to the OBR’s assessment. 

    Today, the OBR have said… 

    … that they estimate the package will save £4.8bn in the welfare budget… 

    … reflecting their judgements on behavioural effects and wider factors. 

    This also reflects final adjustments to the overall package… 

    … consistent with the Secretary of State’s statement last week… 

    … and the government’s Pathways to Work Green Paper. 

    The Universal Credit Standard Allowance will increase from £92 per week in 2025-26 to £106 per week by 2029-30… 

    … while the Universal Credit Health element will be cut for new claimants by 50% and then frozen.  

    On top of this, we are investing £1bn to provide guaranteed, personalised employment support to help people back into work… 

    … and £400m to support the Department for Work and Pensions and our Job Centres to deliver these changes effectively and fairly… 

    … taking total savings after that for the package to £3.4bn. 

    Whilst spending on disability and sickness benefits will continue to raise, these plans 

    mean that welfare spending as a share of GDP will fall between 2026-27 and the end of the forecast period.  

    [political content redacted]

    We are reforming our welfare system… 

    … making it more sustainable… 

    … protecting the most vulnerable… 

    … and supporting more people back into secure work lifting them out of poverty.  

    Mr Speaker, at the Budget, I fixed the foundations of our economy to deliver on the promise of change. 

    That work has already begun. 

    2 million extra appointments in our NHS. 

    Waiting lists down.  

    New breakfast clubs opening across England. 

    The largest settlements in real terms for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the history of devolution.  

    Asylum costs, falling. 

    Promises made, promises kept.  

    [political content redacted]

    At the Budget… 

    … alongside providing an increase in funding for this year and next… 

    … I set the envelope for the Spending Review… 

    … which we will deliver in June… 

    led by my RHF the Chief Secretary to the Treasury 

    … to set departmental budgets until 2028-29 for day-to-day spending… 

    … and until 2029-30 for capital spending.  

    Today, I am reflecting two steps that we have taken in our spending plans.  

    First, because we are living in an uncertain world… 

    … as the Prime Minister has set out… 

    … we will increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, reducing overseas aid to 0.3% of Gross National Income. 

    This means we save £2.6bn in day-to-day spending in 2029-30… 

    … to fund our more capital-intensive defence commitments.  

    Second, in recent months, we have begun to fundamentally reform the British state… 

    … driving efficiency and productivity across government… 

    … to deliver tangible savings… 

    … and improve services across our country. 

    Earlier this month, the Prime Minister set out our plans to abolish the arms-length body NHS England… 

    … and ensure that money goes directly to improving the service for patients. 

    My Right Honourable Friend the Health Secretary is driving forward vital reforms to increase NHS productivity… 

    … bearing down on costly agency spend… 

    … to save money so that we can improve patient care. 

    And my Right Honourable Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is taking forward work to significantly reduce the costs of running government… 

    … by 15%, worth £2bn, by the end of the decade. 

    This work shows that we can make our state leaner, and more agile… 

    … delivering more resources to the frontline…  

    … while ensuring we control day-to-day spending to meet our fiscal rules. 

    Today, I build on that work… 

    … by bringing forward £3.25bn of investment… 

    … to deliver the reforms that our public services need…  

    … through a new Transformation Fund.  

    That is money brought forward now… 

    … to bring down the costs of running government by the end of the forecast period…   

    … by making public services more efficient, more productive and more foucssed on the user. 

    I can confirm today the first allocations from this fund… 

    … including funding for Voluntary Exit Schemes to reduce the size of the Civil Service… 

    … pioneering AI tools to modernise the state… 

    … investment in technology for the Ministry of Justice to deliver probation services more effectively… 

    … and up-front investment so we can support more children in foster care… 

    … to give them the best possible start in life… 

    … and reduce cost pressures in the future. 

    Our work to make government leaner… 

    … more productive… 

    … and more efficient… 

    … will help deliver a further £3.5bn of day-to-day savings by 2029-30. 

    Overall, day-to-day spending will be reduced by £6.1bn by 2029-30…  

    … and it will now grow by an average of 1.2% a year above inflation…  

    … compared to 1.3% in the Autumn. 

    Mr Speaker, I can confirm to the House that day-to-day spending will increase in real terms, above inflation, in every single year of the forecast.  

    And in the Spending Review, apart from the reduction in overseas aid… 

    … day-to-day spending across government has been fully protected.   

    I can also confirm our approach to capital investment.  

    In the Autumn Budget I announced £100bn of additional capital spending…  

    … to crowd in investment from the private sector… 

    … to fix our crumbling infrastructure…  

    … and to create jobs in every corner of our country. 

    [political content redacted]

    Today, I am instead increasing capital spending … 

    … by an average of £2bn per year compared to the Autumn…  

    … to drive growth in our economy… 

    … and to deliver in full our vital commitments on defence. 

    This government will ensure that every pound we spend will deliver for the British people… 

    … by increasing productivity… 

    … driving growth in our economy… 

    … and improving our frontline public services.  

    Mr Speaker, let me turn now to the impact of increased uncertainty on our economy. 

    To deliver economic stability, we must work closely with the Bank of England… 

    … supporting the independent Monetary Policy Committee to meet their 2% inflation target.  

    There have been three interest rate cuts since the General Election and today’s data showed that inflation fell in February. 

    [political content redacted]

    … the OBR forecast that CPI inflation will average 3.2% this year… 

    … before falling rapidly to 2.1% in 2026 and meeting the 2% target from 2027 onwards… 

    … giving families and businesses the security that they need… 

    … and providing our economy with the stable platform it needs to grow. 

    Mr Speaker… 

    … earlier this month, the OECD downgraded this year’s growth forecast for every G7 economy, including the UK. 

    And the OBR have today revised our growth forecast for 2025… 

    … from 2% in the autumn… 

    … to 1% today. 

    I am not satisfied with these numbers. 

    That is why we on this side of the house are serious about taking the action needed to grow our economy.  

    Backing the builders, not the blockers…  

    … with a third runway at Heathrow Airport… 

    … and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.  

    Increasing investment… 

    … with reforms to our pension system… 

    … and a new National Wealth Fund.  

    And tearing down regulatory barriers… 

    … in every sector of our economy. 

    That is a serious plan for growth. 

    That is a serious plan to improve living standards.  

    That is a serious plan to renew our country.  

    Mr Speaker, a changing world presents challenges.  

    But it also presents new opportunities.  

    For new jobs. 

    … and new contracts… 

    … in our world-class defence industrial centres… 

    … from Belfast to Deeside, and from Plymouth to Rosyth. 

    In February, the Prime Minister set out our government’s commitment to increase spending on defence to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027… 

    The biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War 

    …and an ambition to spend 3% of GDP on defence in the next parliament. 

    That was the right decision in a more insecure world… 

    … putting an extra £6.4bn into defence spending by 2027. 

    But we have to move quickly in this changing world. 

    And that starts with investment. 

    So today I can confirm that I will provide an additional £2.2bn for the Ministry of Defence in the next financial year… 

    … a further downpayment on our plans to deliver 2.5% of GDP by 2027.  

    This additional investment is not just about increasing our national security…  

    … but increasing our economic security, too.  

    As defence spending rises, I want the whole country to feel its benefits. 

    So I will set out the immediate steps that we are taking to boost Britain’s defence industry… 

    … and to make the UK a defence industrial superpower.  

    We will spend a minimum of 10% of the Ministry of Defence’s equipment budget on novel technologies … 

    … including drones and AI enabled technology… 

    … driving forward advanced manufacturing production in places like Glasgow, in Derby and in Newport… 

    … creating demand for highly skilled engineers and scientists… 

    … and delivering new business opportunities for UK tech firms and start-ups.  

    We will establish a protected budget of £400m within the Ministry of Defence… 

    … a budget that will rise over time for UK Defence Innovation… 

    … with a clear mandate to bring innovative technology to the front line at speed. 

    We will reform our broken defence procurement system… 

    … making it quicker, more agile and more streamlined…. 

    … and giving small businesses across the UK better access to Ministry of Defence contracts. 

    Something welcomed by the Federation of Small Businesses. 

    We will take forward our Plan for Barrow, a town at the heart of our nuclear security… 

    … working with my Honourable Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness…  

    … and providing £200m, supporting the creation of thousands of jobs there. 

    We will regenerate Portsmouth naval base, securing its future…   

    … as called for by my Honourable Friend the Member for Portsmouth South. 

    We will secure better homes for thousands of military families… the homes that they deserve [political content redacted]. 

    … homes for our military families in the constituencies of my Honourable Friends for Plymouth Moor View, Plymouth Sutton & Devonport, York Outer and in Aldershot.  

    That is the difference that this [political content redacted] government is making.  

    Finally, Mr Speaker, we will provide £2bn of increased capacity for UK Export Finance… 

    … to provide loans for overseas buyers of UK defence goods and services… 

    Because I want to do more with our defence budget so we can buy and make and sell things here in Britain.  

    … giving further opportunities for our world leading defence companies and those who work in them… 

    … to grow and create jobs here in Britain… 

    … as military spending rises right across Europe.  

    To oversee all of this vital work… 

    … my Right Honourable Friend the Defence Secretary and I will establish a new Defence Growth Board… 

    … to maximise the benefits from every pound of taxpayers’ money that we spend. 

    And we will put defence at the heart of our modern industrial strategy… 

    … to drive innovation that can deliver huge benefits back into the British economy. 

    Mr Speaker, that is how we make our country a defence industrial superpower… 

    … so the skills of the future… 

    … the jobs of the future… 

    … and the opportunities of the future… 

    … can be found right here in the United Kingdom.  

    Mr Speaker, [political content redacted] there are no shortcuts to economic growth. 

    It will take long-term decisions.  

    It will take hard yards. 

    It will take time for the reforms that we are introducing to be felt in the everyday economy. 

    It is right that the Office for Budget Responsibility consider the evidence… 

    … and look carefully at measures before recognising a growth impact in their forecast.  

    But, Mr Speaker, I can announce to the House…  

    … that the OBR have considered – and have scored – one of the central planks of our plan for growth.  

    In my first week as Chancellor, I announced that we were pursuing the most ambitious set of planning reforms in decades… 

    … to get Britain building again. 

    And in December – we published changes to the National Planning Policy Framework… 

    … driven forward tirelessly by my Right Honourable Friend the Deputy Prime Minister…  

    … reintroducing mandatory housing targets… 

    … and bringing “grey belt” land into scope.  

    The OBR have today concluded that these reforms will permanently increase the level of real GDP… 

    … by point 0.2% by 2029-30… 

    … an additional £6.8bn in our economy… 

    … and by point 0.4% of GDP within 10 years… 

    … an additional £15.1bn in our British economy. 

    Mr Speaker, that is the biggest positive growth impact that the OBR have ever reflected in their forecast, for a policy with no fiscal cost.  

    And taken together with our plans to increase capital spending that we set out in the Budget last year… 

    … this government’s policies will increase the level of real GDP by point 0.6% in the next ten years.  

    Mr Speaker, that is the difference that this [political content redacted] government is making. 

    Policies to grow our economy.

    [political content redacted]

    The OBR have concluded that our reforms will lead to housebuilding reaching a forty-year high… 

    …  of 305,000 a year by the end of the forecast period.  

    And changes to the National Planning Policy Framework alone… 

    … will help build over 1.3 million homes in the UK over the next five years… 

    … taking us within touching distance…  

    … of delivering our manifesto promise to build 1.5 million homes in England in this parliament. 

    [political content redacted]

    The impact on our economy goes further still.  

    [political content redacted]

    We need economic growth.  

    So I can today confirm… 

    … that the effect of our growth policies… 

    … including our planning reforms… 

    … means an additional £3.4 billion to support our public finances and our public services by 2029-30. 

    The proceeds of growth. 

    [political content redacted]

    Mr Speaker, earlier this week…  

    … we provided an additional £2bn of investment in social and affordable homes next year… 

    … delivering up to 18,000 new homes… 

    … and allowing local areas to bid for new developments across our country… 

    … including sites in Thanet, in Sunderland and in Swindon.  

    More security for families across our country. 

    [political content redacted]

    And to build these new homes… 

    … we need people with the right skills. 

    Earlier this week, my Right Honourable Friend the Education Secretary announced more than £600m… 

    … to train up 60,000 more construction workers…  

    … including with 10 new Technical Excellence colleges across every region of our country… 

    … giving working people the chance to fulfil their potential.  

    New opportunities for our young people. 

    [political content redacted]

    Mr Speaker, all this is just the start.  

    The Planning and Infrastructure Bill passed its second reading on Monday. 

    [political content redacted]

    Once this Bill completes its passage… 

    … it will help deliver the homes and infrastructure our country badly needs. 

    [political content redacted] 

    And today, I can confirm to the House… 

    … that the OBR have upgraded their growth forecast next year… 

    … and every single year thereafter…  

    … with GDP growth of 1.9% in 2026, 1.8% in 2027, 1.7% in 2028, and 1.8% in 2029.  

    Mr Speaker, 

    By the end of the forecast… 

    … our economy is larger compared to the OBR’s forecast at the time of the Budget.

    [political content redacted]

    But Mr Speaker, this isn’t just about lines on a graph. 

    It is about improving people’s lives. 

    Working people are still feeling the pinch after a cost of living crisis [political content redacted] that saw prices spiral. 

    So I am pleased that the OBR confirm today … 

    … that Real Household Disposable Income…  

    … will now grow this year at almost twice the rate expected in the autumn.  

    [political content redacted]

    … and after taking into account inflation… 

    … the OBR say today… 

    … that people will be on average over £500 a year better off under this [political content redacted] government. 

    That will mean more money in the pockets of working people. Higher living standards. 

    [political content redacted]

    Mr Speaker, the world is changing. 

    We can see that… 

    … and we can feel it. 

    A changing world demands a government that is on the side of working people. 

    Acting in their interest. 

    Acting in the national interest.  

    Not retreating from challenges.  

    Not stepping back.  

    But a government with the courage to step up…  

    … to secure Britain’s future…  

    … and to seize the opportunities that are out there before us. 

    I am impatient for change, the British people are impatient for change, [political content redacted].

    And we are beginning to see change happen.  

    Our Plan for Change is working. 

    Defence spending is rising. 

    Waiting lists are falling. 

    Wages are up.  

    Interest rates are cut. 

    [political content redacted]

    And today, Mr Speaker… 

    … the OBR confirm… 

    … that our plan to get Britain building… 

    … will drive growth in our economy… 

    … and put more money in people’s pockets. 

    There are no quick fixes. 

    But we have taken the right choices.  

    [political content redacted]

    Delivering security for our country and security for working people.  

    That is what drives this government. 

    That is what drives me as Chancellor. 

    And that is what drives the choices that I have set out today.  

    And I commend this statement to the House.

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  • MIL-OSI: MissionSquare Retirement Earns 2024 Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation™ for the second year in a row

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    Washington, D.C., March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cigna Healthcare has selected MissionSquare, an organization that advocates for retirement security and financial well-being, as a recipient of their 2024 Gold Healthy Workforce Designation for demonstrating a strong commitment to improving the health and vitality of its employees through a workplace well-being program.

    The award highlighted MissionSquare’s senior leadership for actively endorsing wellness initiatives. The program effectively promotes vitality on multiple fronts, employing various communication methods such as departmental and leadership meetings. To encourage participation, MissionSquare also provides incentives for engaging in wellness activities.

    “We are proud to have achieved Cigna’s Gold designation, highlighting our work to promote employee health and well-being,” said Lisa Raff, Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at MissionSquare. “This recognition reflects our ongoing efforts to provide activities, tools, and resources to help our employees thrive, and we’re honored to be acknowledged by Cigna.”

    MissionSquare’s innovative well-being program takes a holistic approach to employee health and productivity. Going beyond standard paid time off (PTO), the comprehensive initiative emphasizes relaxation, personal days, and holidays, aiming to cultivate a healthier and more productive workforce. By prioritizing the overall health of their team, MissionSquare not only elevates their employees’ quality of life but also establishes a new industry standard. 

    Vitality is defined as the capacity to pursue life with health, strength and energy. It is both a driver and an outcome of health and work/life engagement, and Cigna Healthcare believes it is not only essential to individuals, but also a catalyst for business and community growth. Research conducted as part of the Evernorth Vitality Index confirms that those with higher vitality experience better mental and physical health along with higher levels of job satisfaction and performance. An opportunity remains for employers as less than one in five U.S. adults report having high levels of vitality. A workplace well-being program that takes a comprehensive approach to employee health can be critical in boosting vitality and building a workforce that experiences better overall health and job productivity.

    “Higher vitality is linked to a more motivated, connected, and productive workforce,” said Kari Knight Stevens, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, The Cigna Group. “Employers that foster vitality will fuel a healthier workplace and drive business and economic growth. That’s why we’re proud to recognize employers for their efforts to prioritize multiple dimensions of wellness, build a culture of health, and boost employee engagement.”

    The Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation evaluates organizations based on the core components of their well-being program, including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, policies and accommodations, and additional areas. Organizations recognized with this designation set the standard of excellence for organizational health and vitality.

    About MissionSquare Retirement
    Since our founding in 1972, MissionSquare Retirement has been dedicated to simplifying the path to retirement security for public service employees. As a mission-based financial services company, we manage and administer over $72 billion in assets.* Our commitment to delivering results-oriented retirement plans, education, investments, and financial education sets us apart. Explore how we enable public service workers to build a secure financial future. Visit www.missionsq.org or follow the company on Facebook, LinkedIn, and X.

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  • MIL-OSI: Trade Crypto with 100x Leverage and No KYC – Get Double Deposit Bonus and $50 Instantly on BexBack

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    SINGAPORE, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — With Bitcoin’s price fluctuating below $100,000, many analysts predict a prolonged period of high volatility in the crypto market. Holding spot positions may struggle to generate short-term profits in such conditions. As a result, 100x leverage futures trading has become the preferred tool for seasoned investors looking to maximize potential gains in this volatile market. BexBack Exchange is ramping up its efforts to offer traders unmatched promotional packages. The platform now features a 100% deposit bonus, a $50 welcome bonus for new users, and 100x leverage on cryptocurrency trading, providing exceptional opportunities for investors.

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  • MIL-OSI China: AI-powered job fair held in Harbin, China’s Heilongjiang

    Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News

    AI-powered job fair held in Harbin, China’s Heilongjiang

    Updated: March 26, 2025 21:21 Xinhua
    Students learn about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. Featuring AI technologies such as career counseling, resume polishing and interview, an AI-powered job fair with the participation of 620 companies was held at Harbin Institute of Technology on Wednesday, providing over 42,000 positions to job seekers. [Photo/Xinhua]
    A student learns about AI interview at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
    Students learn about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
    Students learn about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
    Students learn about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
    A student learns about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
    Students learn about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
    Students learn about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]

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  • MIL-OSI China: China boosts global confidence for win-win cooperation

    Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News

    Beijing, March 26 — Against the backdrop of global economic fragmentation and rising uncertainties, China reaffirmed its commitment to innovation-driven high-quality development and global cooperation at the just-concluded China Development Forum (CDF) 2025.

    Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of CDF 2025, underscored China’s commitment to its 2025 growth target of around 5 percent, signaling strong confidence in the country’s economic prospects.

    The decision reflects both China’s profound understanding of its economic conditions, and confidence in its governance capacity and future development potential, Li said, calling for the combination of more proactive and impactful macro policies with structural reforms, and voicing hope that China will continue to welcome enterprises from around the world with open arms.

    The premier added that the country will safeguard free trade, and contribute to the smooth and stable operation of global industrial and supply chains.

    Themed “Unleashing Development Momentum for Stable Growth of Global Economy,” the high-profile gathering held from March 23 to 24 in Beijing brought together Chinese policymakers, global business leaders, and leading international scholars to chart a course for sustainable growth amid uncertainties.

    “China is open for business and China is set for growth,” said Ola Kallenius, chairman of the board of management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, on the sidelines of the event.

    STABILITY AMID UNCERTAINTIES

    As the theme of stability resonated throughout the forum discussions, Han Wenxiu, executive deputy director of the Office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, provided insight into China’s economic resilience and stability to counteract global uncertainties.

    “Amid rising external instability and uncertainty, China will remain firmly focused on pursuing its own development, leveraging the certainty of high-quality growth to offset external uncertainties and striving to serve as a stabilizing anchor for the global economy,” Han added.

    International observers echoed confidence in China’s economic prospects. Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist and director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development, told Xinhua that China’s around-5-percent growth target is “perfectly achievable,” adding that the country is “booming in key sectors, especially digital, artificial intelligence, robotics, and this is going to propel a Chinese growth.”

    In the eyes of Standard Chartered Group Chief Executive Bill Winters, China’s growth story has shifted. “It is now about transformation and unleashing new productive forces to flourish to support high-quality growth,” he said.

    A PwC report released at the CDF noted that over the past two years, driven by new quality productive forces, China has demonstrated a commercial evolution path distinct from those of the traditional industrialized nations, marked by improvements in production factors, transformations in business models, and the intelligent reshaping of industrial chains.

    “This has opened up new opportunities for global business investment and development in China, highlighting the new advantages of the Chinese market during the global economic transition period,” the report read.

    INNOVATION AS NEW GROWTH ENGINE

    Finance Minister Lan Fo’an offered concrete details about China’s supportive fiscal policies, emphasizing their role in stimulating innovation and consumption. “We’re implementing targeted measures to convert potential demand into real growth drivers,” Lan explained.

    “This includes increasing fiscal support for tech innovation and providing tangible assistance to private enterprises.” He specifically highlighted plans to “accelerate the development of new quality productive forces” through strategic investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technologies.

    Data showcased China’s progress: its global innovation index ranking rose to 11th in 2024, with 19.6 percent, 27 percent, 64 percent, and 91.5 percent year-on-year growth in semiconductor wafers, industrial robots, bullet trains, and drones respectively in early 2024.

    The nation’s emphasis on innovation as a driver for high-quality growth resonated strongly throughout the forum. Siemens AG President and CEO Roland Busch pointed to China’s advances in AI and high-tech manufacturing.

    “China gave the answer for where growth would come from: Growth from high tech, growth by higher efficiency, and high-quality growth,” he remarked, adding that China surprises the world with innovations like the open foundational model R-1 developed by DeepSeek.

    Kallenius also praised China’s innovation-driven market. “China’s competitive advantage lies in its passion for innovation,” he said. “That is why Mercedes-Benz continues to deepen its presence in China.”

    Reflecting this trend, AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot emphasized the country’s emergence as a global leader in life sciences. “Today, China is home to one of AstraZeneca’s Global R&D Centres, where our researchers in Shanghai are spearheading 20 global clinical trials and advancing over 200 pipeline projects,” he said.

    Prior to the forum, the British pharmaceutical giant signed a landmark 2.5-billion-U.S. dollar agreement on Friday to invest in Beijing over the next five years, the largest single investment in Beijing’s biopharmaceutical sector in recent years.

    Under the agreement, AstraZeneca will establish a global strategic R&D center in Beijing, its sixth worldwide and second in China after one in Shanghai. The new center, equipped with an advanced AI and data science laboratory, will accelerate early-stage drug research and clinical development.

    “Looking ahead, China will not only serve as a global innovation hub but also a core arena for setting standards and reshaping industrial chains,” the PwC report added.

    OPEN COLLABORATION FOR SHARED FUTURE

    From CDF 2025 in Beijing to the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 in south China’s Hainan Province, foreign executives reaffirmed their commitment to China as a key market for investment and collaboration: China’s complete industrial system, rich application scenarios, vast market scale, and large talent pool offer extensive collaboration opportunities for international industrial and technological innovation.

    The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China said in its latest survey that 58 percent of its member firms plan to expand or maintain investments in China through 2025, while 53 percent of U.S. companies are expected to invest more in the country, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in China.

    BMW AG Chairman Oliver Zipse stressed that “economic prosperity comes from openness, not protectionism,” while criticizing trade barriers. “The best response to ‘de-risking’ strategies is more cooperation, not less.”

    Speaking to global business leaders attending the CDF, Lan also emphasized that China’s fiscal policy will support high-standard opening up, and that China will ensure equal treatment for all types of business entities and continue to improve the business environment.

    “For global companies, China’s commitment to high-tech innovation and open collaboration makes it an indispensable partner for long-term growth,” said Busch, highlighting China’s rapid technological advancements and collaborative spirit.

    Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman of Schneider Electric, said: “China is not only our second-largest worldwide market but it’s also a vital source of innovation.” For the French industrial giant, China will remain a key partner as it navigates the complexities of a rapidly changing world, he added.

    While China accelerates its push toward innovation-led growth and deepens its commitment to openness, global businesses continue to see the country as a critical partner in achieving long-term economic prosperity, and as the premier put it, there is a growing need for countries to open their markets and for enterprises to share resources, in order to address challenges and pursue common prosperity.

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  • MIL-OSI: Lotlinx Survey Reveals Growing Adoption and Benefits of Machine-Driven Technologies in Auto Dealerships

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    DETROIT, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lotlinx, the auto industry’s leading VIN-specific data company for dealership inventory management, announced today results of its latest industry survey, highlighting the increasing adoption and significant benefits of machine-driven technologies among auto retailers. The online survey, conducted in March 2025, was presented to more than 2,500 dealers across the U.S. and reveals both the advantages for early adopters and the need for further industry-wide implementation. Click here to see the full survey results infographic. 

    The survey found that nearly 30% of dealers are currently using machine learning, while another 30% are utilizing predictive modeling, up from 21% from a survey conducted last November. For vehicle pricing decisions, approximately 40% of dealers are leveraging these technologies for both new and used vehicles, with a majority (over 60%) finding them effective in optimizing pricing strategies. However, one in ten dealers reported not using any machine-driven technologies, indicating room for growth.

    In terms of inventory management, half of dealers (50%) are currently employing machine-driven technologies for inventory decisioning. The use of these technologies for inventory carryover decisioning is particularly noteworthy, with 80% of dealers using them on a daily or weekly basis.

    Dealers using machine-driven technologies reported several key benefits, especially in the areas of decisioning and pricing results. Of the 70% of dealers who have been able to compare the outcomes of machine-assisted decisioning versus human decisioning, 70% said machines have proven to be more successful in inventory management and pricing. In fact, more than half of those dealers said the machine decisioning had improved the per vehicle profit percentage between 2% – 8%. Another 10% said the machine decisioning had improved this between 8% and more than 10%.

    “These survey results reveal a positive shift in the industry, with many dealers now reaping the benefits of machine-driven technologies,” said Len Short, Executive Chairman of Lotlinx. “While there’s still room for growth, we’re encouraged by the increased adoption and the tangible improvements dealers are experiencing in areas such as inventory management and profitability.”

    Click here to see the full infographic and for more information about the survey or Lotlinx’s solutions, please visit www.lotlinx.com.

    About Lotlinx

    Founded in 2012 and based out in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Lotlinx is the automotive industry leader in VIN-specific data solutions for inventory risk management. The Lotlinx platform provides automobile dealers and manufacturers with enhanced operational control over their retail business. Leveraging state-of-the-art real-time data and machine learning technology, Lotlinx provides a precision retailing solution that enables dealers to automatically adapt to market dynamics, mitigating inventory risk through VIN-specific strategies. To learn more about Lotlinx, please visit www.lotlinx.com.

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  • MIL-OSI Economics: Nuclear fusion: Delivering on the promise of carbon‑free power with the help of AI

    Source: Microsoft

    Headline: Nuclear fusion: Delivering on the promise of carbon‑free power with the help of AI

    Jean-Daniel Delaplagne is the IT Section Leader for ITER. He has been with the organization for 15 years.

    ITER has been a longtime Microsoft client, he said, with Office 365, Windows servers, and other Microsoft tools in use throughout the organization. But in the past year that use has expanded in new directions.

    “One of our targets was to connect with our knowledge base here in a better way,” Delaplagne said. “We have 20 years of knowledge — more than 1 million documents.”

    His team fine-tuned an Azure OpenAI Service chatbot designed to make mining that database easier. ITER has been working with Microsoft partner Witivio to make the link between that knowledge platform and the Microsoft 365 Copilot through agentic features.   An example of an “agentic element” is a tool specifically designed to translate the hundreds of acronyms ITER uses.

    Delaplagne said that the chatbot has been very helpful in a variety of ways.

    “In the end we have been getting quite good quality of answers on very technical knowledge of ITER,” he said.  “It’s not just good at finding documents, it’s good at finding information within documents and the meaning of different aspects of engineering and construction.”

    After an initial use phase of Microsoft 365 Copilot with 50 beta testers, ITER is expanding to more than 300 Copilot licenses with plans to add more, Delaplagne said. Copilot is also being used for administrative tasks like initial evaluations of CVs as well as for purchasing and inventory.

    Azure OpenAI Service is also being used to make a history of all the IT tickets on file searchable. He said ITER typically has 40,000 requests for IT help each year. Making the history of all those help requests and solutions searchable could speed up the resolution of common issues; he said the system has been well-received so far. He also said health and safety officers have used Copilot to draft inspection methodologies and checklists, including generating open-ended questions.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: An exhibition dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Department of Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics opened at SPbGASU

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    Source: Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering – Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering – Exhibition exhibits

    On March 25, in honor of the 95th anniversary of the Department of Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics, a book exhibition entitled “Descriptive Geometry. Engineering Graphics: Milestones in History” was ceremoniously opened in the scientific and technical library of SPbGASU.

    The exhibition displays the first textbooks on descriptive geometry, projects and drawings by teachers of the 19th–20th centuries, albums with drawings by the first students, scientific research by department staff, and modern textbooks and teaching aids.

    “Today we have gathered in our legendary library to congratulate the staff of the oldest department of the university and pay tribute to all those talented and hardworking teachers whose contribution to the training of specialists in the construction field is invaluable. We have gathered to remember the names of those who laid the foundations of the traditions of the Russian school of civil engineers and stood at the origins of teaching the discipline “Descriptive Geometry”; those who supplemented, expanded and preserved the traditions of teaching; those who today, in the rapid time of the development of digital technologies, are engaged in this science,” Elena Romanova, head of the scientific and technical library of SPbGASU, addressed the guests of the exhibition.

    Elena Gennadyevna expressed her gratitude to Elena Denisova, head of the Department of Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics, for donating to the library a rare 1821 edition of L. L. Vallee’s “Treatise on the Science of Drawing,” which contains a general theory of shadows, linear perspective, a general theory of optical images, and aerial perspective used for blurred drawing.

    Senior lecturer of the Department of Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics Vladimir Zaikin shared his memories of outstanding scientists – Ivan Dmitrievich Sizov, Maria Fedorovna Yakovleva, Alexandra Nikolaevna Zaikina, Valentina Fominichna Ivanova. According to Vladimir Konstantinovich, of the 95 years that the department has existed, he could talk about the last fifty – he visited the lecture halls and drawing rooms when he was still a child, then studied at our university and has been working there for many years.

    The department’s head Elena Denisova spoke about the department’s successes today. The department provides graphic and geometric training for all engineering, construction and architectural specialties. The scientific interests of the staff concern various aspects of the application of the academic disciplines “Descriptive Geometry”, “Engineering Graphics” and “Computer Graphics” to these areas of study.

    The department uses modern teaching methods – interactive lectures, online courses, CAD systems are used: Kompas-3D, nanoCAD for creating 3D models and preparing drawings, which allows students to better understand spatial relationships and visualize complex geometric objects, and gain skills in working with modern software. Tasks are developed that require manual graphics: you cannot completely abandon manual drawing, which develops motor skills, an eye and an understanding of the principles of construction, which is critical for the formation of spatial thinking.

    The main scientific areas of the department are geometric modeling, computer graphics, information modeling technologies (IMT), engineering analysis, data visualization, application of methods of descriptive geometry and engineering graphics in education, use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, etc.

    Over the past three years, the department’s teachers have published more than 160 works. Students under their scientific supervision have published about 100 works. The department has three areas of the student scientific society of the Faculty of Architecture: “3D modeling in modern design” (headed by Elena Denisova), “Architecture and geometry in a sustainable world” (headed by Olga Melnikova, senior lecturer of the department), and “Computer-aided design (CAD) systems for solving construction and architectural problems” (headed by Yuliana Guryeva, associate professor of the department).

    Career guidance work is carried out: master classes are held for schoolchildren: “Profession: Civil Engineer. Who builds, what builds and for whom builds”, “Not everyone is given the opportunity to live so generously – to give cities to friends as a keepsake!” The department’s teachers work in schools and collaborate with other educational institutions.

    Students, under the guidance of the department’s teachers, regularly participate in competitions and olympiads at the regional, all-Russian and international levels, where they win prizes, demonstrating a high level of training and a creative approach to solving engineering problems.

    The department’s teachers have written manuals and textbooks that have received high marks in competitions, and have acquired a number of patents for their inventions. Yuliana Guryeva was awarded a laureate diploma at the international exhibition and competition “Creative Spring. The Expanses of My Homeland…” for her graphic work “The Bell Tower of the Nikolsky Naval Cathedral in St. Petersburg” (from the series “St. Petersburg – the City of Naval Glory”).

    “In the modern educational realities, the Department of Descriptive Geometry must actively develop in order to remain relevant and in demand. Traditional approaches need to be adapted to new technologies, labor market requirements, and the changing educational needs of students,” Elena Denisova is confident.

    The department’s development areas include the introduction of new educational technologies, development and refinement of courses and disciplines that meet modern labor market requirements in close cooperation with graduating departments, encouraging students to participate in scientific conferences and competitions in geometry and computer graphics, participation in international educational and scientific projects, and student and teacher exchanges with foreign universities.

    Students of SPbGASU congratulated the department on its anniversary in the form of a video message, in which they warmly thanked the teachers for their responsiveness, assistance in preparing for the Olympiads and developing professional skills.

    The opening ceremony of the exhibition continued with a tour of the reading room for working with rare books, where Elena Romanova showed unique graphic works from the collection of the Scientific and Technical Library of St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, made by teachers and students of previous years.

    The exhibition in the reading room of the Scientific and Technical Library of St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering will run until April 25.

    Opening hours: Monday – Thursday from 10:00 to 18:00, Friday from 10:00 to 17:00.

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  • MIL-OSI USA: 4 College of Engineering Faculty Elected to CASE

    Source: US State of Connecticut

    For being “leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine,” the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) is welcoming four faculty from UConn’s College of Engineering (CoE) into its membership.

    They are among 12 inductees from UConn, and 36 statewide. The new members will be introduced at the Academy’s 50th Annual Dinner on May 28.

    Election to CASE is open to scientists and engineers who work or live in Connecticut based on scientific distinction achieved through significant original contributions in theory or applications, unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of applied science and technology, or both.

    The 2025 CASE inductees from the CoE include:
    • Omer Khan, professor of electrical and computer engineering

    • Ji-Cheng “JC” Zhao, dean of the College of Engineering; professor of materials science and engineering

    • Guoan Zheng, Collins Aerospace Professor of Engineering Innovation in the Department of Biomedical Engineering; and director of the UConn Center for Biomedical and Bioengineering Innovation

    • Xiao-Dong Zhou, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Professor in Sustainable Energy; the Nicholas E. Madonna Chair in Sustainability; director of the Center for Clean Energy Engineering; and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering

    “CASE is honored to have these outstanding scientists and engineers join us as we seek to fulfill our mission to provide evidence-based advice to inform policy and promote innovation in Connecticut,” says CASE President Amy Howell.

    Brief bios of the 2025 CASE Fellows are below:

    Omer Khan

    Omer Khan leads the Computer Architecture Group (CAG) and serves as an associate director of the Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC). His research interests include computer architectures and methods that exploit parallelism, locality, resiliency, and privacy suitable for high-performance applications, such as graph intelligence problems. He has contributed architectural advancements for futuristic massively parallel microprocessors that substantially enhance system level performance and efficiency.

    Most recently, Khan and his colleagues took a hardware-architecture-algorithm approach to develop a new system architecture that helps optimize multiple goals at once, like finding the best trade-off between speed and fuel efficiency for autonomous vehicles. They propose Ordered Parallel Multi-Objective Search, or OPMOS, that exploits massive parallelism to achieve huge improvements in performance.

    “OPMOS is a unique approach that brings together algorithmic optimizations and architectural insights to rapidly accelerate these computationally hard multi-objective graph intelligence problems,” Khan explains. “This means exact solutions that used to take hours to generate can be found in seconds. This allows decision-makers to have access to real-time information, leading to better decision-making in high-impact application scenarios.”

    As a complementary research effort, Khan is addressing the computational complexity problem in artificial intelligence applications, such as autonomous systems, social influence, and chip design that must handle increasingly large and sparse graph-based data.

    “Efficient processing of sparse graph problems is extremely challenging since the underlying computations require complex mathematical operations whose processing suffers from performance scaling challenges on existing hardware processing units,” Khan explains. Khan and his colleagues are developing parallel hardware architectures that exploit sparsity for performance to reduce computational complexity without compromising accuracy.

    Prior to joining UConn, Khan spent several years in the semiconductor industry as a high-performance processor architect.

    Khan has a BS in electrical and computer engineering from Michigan State University (2000) and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2009).

    Ji-Cheng “JC” Zhao

    Ji-Cheng “JC” Zhao is an expert on design of advanced alloys and coatings, additive manufacturing (3D printing) of alloys and composites, high-throughput materials science methodologies, and computational thermodynamics and kinetics. He previously served as a director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy), managing approximately $100 million in projects to develop energy-efficient and green technologies.

    Before working in academia and government, Zhao was a senior materials scientist and project leader at General Electric (GE) Research Center where he invented new materials and processes, mostly for gas turbines and jet engines, leading to 48 U.S. patents.

    As dean of engineering at UConn, Zhao is working to expand the College’s research footprint, launch impactful educational programs, and advance relationships with local, national, and international partners.

    Zhao is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Inventors, ASM International, the Materials Research Society, and the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society.
    Zhao has a BS in materials science and engineering from Central South University in Hunan, China (1985) and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Lehigh University (1995).

    Guoan Zheng

    Guoan Zheng is an expert on biomedical optics and instrumentation, computational imaging, microscopy, and chip-scale imaging. At UConn’s Smart Imaging Laboratory, he leads a team of researchers who are developing a new technique called Synthetic Aperture Ptycho-Endoscopy (SAPE), which achieves outstanding resolution and visibility in endoscopic images. Since its inception in 2013, the laboratory has been supported by NSF, NIH, DOE, Connecticut Innovations, and partnerships with multiple industry leaders.

    Zheng is also the inventor of Fourier ptychography, a transformative microscopy technique that has become a global standard, now widely adopted across numerous laboratories worldwide. The technique is featured as a chapter in the most widely read textbook on Fourier optics.

    He’s also a member of Optica and SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

    Zheng holds a BS in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University (2007); and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (2013).

    Xiao-Dong Zhou

    Xiao-Dong Zhou is passionate about reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the development of advanced materials and innovative, efficient processes. He’s an expert on nonequilibrium thermodynamics, electrochemistry, thermodynamics and electrochemistry in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries, and studies ways small molecules—such as oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and methane—can be used to create value-added commodities.

    At UConn, Zhou serves as a special advisor on sustainable energies to President Radenka Maric and Vice President for Research Pamir Alpay. In this role, he provides guidance and contributes to the development of sustainable energy strategies and initiatives across the university.

    Zhou currently serves as the technical editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the International Journal of Ceramic Engineering and Science. Since 2017, Zhou has secured more than $23 million in grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Energy.

    Zhou received his BS in chemical engineering from East China University of Science and Technology and his Ph.D. in ceramic engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

    In 2012, CASE elected Pamir Alpay, vice president for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship and professor of materials science and engineering to its membership. He’s among 20 engineering faculty from UConn—including the four new inductees—who are CASE members.

    “We’re thrilled to have Professors Zhao, Zheng, Khan, and Zhou join our membership at the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering,” Alpay says. “This achievement is a testament to their contributions to research and innovation, and their dedication to advancing knowledge in engineering fields. Their work continues to inspire excellence within our academic community at the CoE.”

    The CoE faculty are among 12 newly elected CASE members at UConn. One third of all new inductees statewide are UConn faculty. Others 2025 inductees include:

    • Gerald Berkowitz, professor of horticulture, University of Connecticut College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
    • Ming-Hui Chen, department head of statistics; Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • Jie He, professor of chemistry, University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • Guozhen Lu, professor of mathematics; director of Mathematical Sciences Research Collaboratory, University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
    • Xiuling Lu, professor of pharmaceutical sciences; associate director of the Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy
    • Vijay Rathinam, professor of immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center School of Medicine
    • Kumar Venkitanarayanan, professor of animal science; associate dean for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Connecticut College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources
    • Jing Zhao, professor of chemistry, University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    UConn Engineering continues to have a strong presence in CASE membership. Khan, Zhao, Zheng, and Zhou join 16 other faculty from the College of Engineering who are already members of CASE.

    CASE was chartered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1976 to provide expert guidance on science and technology to the people and to the state of Connecticut, and to promote the application of science and technology to human welfare and economic well-being.

    For more information about CASE, visit https://ctcase.org.

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  • MIL-OSI: SASE Industry Pioneer and Former Gartner Distinguished Analyst Joe Skorupa Joins MEF Technology Advisory Board

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MEF, a global industry association of enterprises and network, cloud, security, and technology providers accelerating enterprise digital transformation, today announced that Joe Skorupa, Strategic Advisor and former Gartner Research VP and Distinguished Analyst, has joined its Technology Advisory Board (TAB). Skorupa is widely recognized as one of the two Gartner analysts who defined the $28B SASE market, transforming the network security and SD-WAN landscape and giving rise to the industry’s most critical cybersecurity architecture for modern enterprises.

    Skorupa’s appointment to the TAB, which provides strategic guidance and technology perspectives to MEF’s leadership, underscores MEF’s commitment to advancing SASE solutions and certification. He joins a select group of senior executives and industry experts from leading global technology companies including Blue Planet, Cisco, Infosys, Netcracker Technology, Nile, Palo Alto Networks, Prodapt, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Spirent Communications, VMWare, and Versa Networks.

    “Joining MEF’s TAB is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of secure, high-performing networking,” said Joe Skorupa, Strategic Advisor and Former Gartner Distinguished Analyst. “As cyber threats intensify and enterprise demands evolve, MEF’s SASE certification program plays a vital role in helping service and technology providers deliver trusted solutions that enterprises can confidently deploy.”

    MEF’s SASE Certification Program, developed in partnership with CyberRatings.org, rigorously validates the cyber defense effectiveness and application performance of SASE solutions including SD-WAN, Security Service Edge (SSE), and Zero Trust (ZT) capabilities. ​Providers achieving all three earn MEF’s comprehensive SASE certification, demonstrating their ability to meet stringent performance, security, interoperability, and scalability requirements.

    “Joe Skorupa’s groundbreaking work defining SASE has been foundational to the industry,” said Pascal Menezes, Chief Technology Officer, MEF. “We are honored to welcome him to our TAB as we continue driving the industry’s only independent SASE certification program and empowering enterprises with validated solutions that withstand today’s rising cybersecurity threats.”

    Join the Conversation: Gain a Competitive Edge with MEF-Certified SASE & SD-WAN
    Skorupa will join MEF CTO Pascal Menezes and Principal Analyst Stan Hubbard, and Ian Foo, CTO and EVP of Product, CyberRatings.org, as a featured speaker in MEF’s upcoming webinar “Gain a Competitive Edge with MEF-Certified SASE & SD-WAN,” taking place Tuesday, April 22 at 7am PST / 10am EST. The session will explore how certification streamlines procurement, accelerates sales cycles, and validates resilience and application performance. Attendees will learn how MEF-certified solutions can unlock new business opportunities in an increasingly competitive and security-conscious market. Register for the webinar here.

    For more information about MEF visit www.MEF.net. Learn more about MEF’s SASE certification program and read the State of the Industry report on SASE here. MEF’s NaaS Industry Blueprint is available for download at MEF.net/NaaS.

    About MEF
    MEF is a global consortium of enterprise and service, cloud, cybersecurity, and technology providers collaborating to accelerate enterprise digital transformation. It delivers standards-based frameworks, services, technologies, APIs, and certification programs to enable Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) across an automated ecosystem. MEF is the defining authority for certified Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) business and operational APIs and Carrier Ethernet, SASE, SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and Security Service Edge (SSE) technologies and services. MEF’s Global NaaS Event (GNE) convenes industry leaders building and delivering the next generation of NaaS solutions. For more information about MEF, visit MEF.net and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. 

    Media Contact:
    Melissa Power
    MEF
    pr@mef.net

    A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/4b9f2197-cc78-4667-a54d-732b069ca780

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  • MIL-OSI: SPS Commerce Releases 2024 ESG Report, Reinforcing Commitment to Sustainable and Responsible Growth

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    MINNEAPOLIS, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SPS Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSC), a leader in retail supply chain cloud services, today announced the release of its 2024 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report, outlining the company’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, ethical business practices, and social responsibility. This inaugural report highlights the company’s key advancements in governance, employee experience, community engagement, and environmental stewardship.

    “At SPS Commerce, connectedness is at the core of everything we do, from enabling seamless supply chain collaboration to fostering an inclusive workplace and investing in the communities we serve,” said Chad Collins, CEO of SPS Commerce. “Our 2024 ESG Report reflects the meaningful progress we’ve made toward building a more sustainable and responsible future, while also underscoring our continued focus on the connections that link our environmental, social and governance principles to every facet of our business.”

    Key highlights from the 2024 ESG Report:

    • Governance & Ethics: Strengthened corporate policies to enhance ESG oversight and cybersecurity safeguards.
    • Employee Experience: Expanded Belonging@SPS, a global initiative focused on fostering connection and community across teams, alongside enhanced leadership development programs.
    • Community Impact: The SPS Foundation continued to drive social impact with a special focus on investing in education and workforce development, with over $2.5 million in donations.
    • Environmental Responsibility: Completed greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories to better understand SPS Commerce’s carbon footprint.
    • Sustainable Operations: Continued prioritization of cloud-based infrastructure with 95% of SPS’s IT operations now in energy-efficient data centers powered by renewable energy.

    SPS Commerce remains committed to transparency and continuous improvement in its ESG efforts. The full 2024 ESG Report is available at https://www.spscommerce.com/corporate-responsibility/.

    About SPS Commerce

    SPS Commerce is the world’s leading retail network, connecting trading partners around the globe to optimize supply chain operations for all retail partners. We support data-driven partnerships with innovative cloud technology, customer-obsessed service, and accessible experts so our customers can focus on what they do best. Over 45,000 recurring revenue customers in retail, grocery, distribution, supply, manufacturing, and logistics are using SPS as their retail network. SPS has achieved 96 consecutive quarters of revenue growth and is headquartered in Minneapolis. For additional information, contact SPS at 866-245-8100 or visit www.spscommerce.com.

    SPS COMMERCE, SPS, SPS logo and INFINITE RETAIL POWER are marks of SPS Commerce, Inc. and registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, along with other SPS marks. Such marks may also be registered or otherwise protected in other countries.

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    Forward-Looking Statements
    This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including information about management’s view of SPS Commerce’s future expectations, plans and prospects, including our views regarding future execution within our business, the opportunity we see in the retail supply chain world and our performance for the first quarter and full year of 2025, within the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the results of SPS Commerce to be materially different than those expressed or implied in such statements. Certain of these risk factors and others are included in documents SPS Commerce files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to, SPS Commerce’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, as well as subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have material adverse effects on SPS Commerce’s future results. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof. SPS Commerce cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Finally, SPS Commerce expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

    Contact:
    Investor Relations
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  • MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Chancellor delivers security and national renewal in a new era of global change

    Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments 3

    Press release

    Chancellor delivers security and national renewal in a new era of global change

    Chancellor vows to bring about “new era of security and national renewal” as she delivered a Spring Statement to kickstart economic growth, protect working people and keep Britain safe.

    • People to be on average £500 a year better off by the end of this parliament compared to under the previous government, putting more money in people’s pockets.

    • OBR forecast concludes government’s landmark planning reforms will result in a £6.8 billion boost to the economy and housebuilding at its highest level in over 40 years by 2029-30.

    • Growth at the heart of Plan for Change as £13 billion of additional capital spend allocated alongside £2.2 billion defence funding boost next year.

    People will be on average £500 a year better off from 2029, relative to OBR’s autumn forecast, helping to deliver the Plan for Change as the Chancellor today (Wednesday 26 March) announced a Spring Statement to grasp the opportunities in a changing world.

    The OBR has also today concluded that the government’s landmark planning reforms will result in UK housebuilding reaching its highest level in over 40 years, bringing the UK one step closer to its Plan for Change mission to build 1.5 million homes.

    The economy will be 0.2% larger in 2029-30 because of the reforms – worth around £6.8 billion in today’s money – growing to 0.4% over the next ten years. This represents the biggest positive growth effect it has ever forecasted for a policy that comes at zero-cost to taxpayers. The reforms will secure over 170,000 new homes for hard working families and leave borrowing £3.4 billion lower in 2029-30.

    The Chancellor also set out how the government is protecting national security and maximising the growth potential of the UK defence sector by confirming a £2.2 billion increase in the defence budget in 2025-26 while ensuring UK defence is on the cutting-edge of technology and innovation.

    But growth is still not where it should be, so at this Spring Statement, this government has gone further and faster to kickstart growth by training up to 60,000 young people to get Britain building again; increasing capital investment by £13 billion over this parliament; and fixing public services by tearing out waste from its roots.

    Growth

    Kickstarting economic growth is the number one mission of this government, putting more money in people’s pockets. The government has already made considerable progress; supporting a third runway at Heathrow; revitalising the Oxford Cambridge Growth Corridor, launching the National Wealth Fund and making the right choices on public investment to drive growth across the UK.

    The actions of this government across the Autumn Budget and Spring Statement, if sustained, lead to a 0.6% rise in the level of real GDP by 2034-35, signalling the government’s growth plan is working.

    The OBR concluded that the stability rule is met by £9.9 billion and the investment rule is met by £15.1 billion. Both rules are met two years early, meaning from 2027-28 the government is only borrowing for investment and net financial debt is falling.

    The government is not satisfied with short-term growth figures, and is going further and fast today to improve this.

    • To go further and faster to get Britain building, the Chancellor has today announced a further £13 billion of capital investment over the Parliament to go further on growth, on top of the £100 billion uplift announced at Autumn Budget. This will deliver the projects needed to catalyse private investment, boost growth and drive forward the UK’s modern industrial strategy – unlocking the potential of the Oxford Cambridge Growth Corridor which could add up to £78 billion to the UK economy by 2035.

    • Taken together, this greater capital investment more than offsets the modest savings on day to day spending and means the total departmental spending will increase over the next five years, when compared with plans in the Autumn.

    • Over this Parliament, the government is funding a £625 million package to boost skills in the construction sector, which is expected to provide up to 60,000 more skilled construction workers to support the government’s plans to deliver 1.5 million homes in England over the parliament and progress vital infrastructure projects,

    • As part of this, the government is providing further support to scale up existing construction skills pathway over this Parliament through £100 million for 35,000 additional training places in construction-focused Skills Bootcamps, supporting trainees, ‘returners’, and existing employees to succeed in the sector. Building on the £40 million investment in the new Growth and Skills Levy at Autumn Budget 2024, the government is also providing a further £40 million to support up to 10,000 more young people to access new construction Foundation Apprenticeships, which will provide a key entry route into a thriving industry.

    • The government is ensuring there are enough skilled construction workers in the system, with £100 million to deliver 10 Technical Excellence Colleges specialised in construction across every region in England, and £165 million to increase funding for training providers delivering construction courses for 16-19-year-olds and adults.

    • The government is committed to supporting employers to unlock further investment in training to deliver more skilled construction workers, and is providing £100 million, alongside a £32 million contribution from the Construction Industry Training Board to deliver up to 40,000 industry placements in construction each year.

    • Supported by the construction skills package, the government confirmed this week that there will be a £2 billion injection of new grant funding to deliver up to 18,000 new social and affordable homes. The new funding will only support developments on sites that will deliver in this Parliament, getting spades in the ground quickly to build homes in places such as Manchester and Liverpool.

    Defence

    The world is changing before our eyes, reshaped by global instability, including Russian aggression in Ukraine. Europe is facing a once-in-a-generation moment for its collective security, with conflicts overseas undermining security and prosperity at home. 

    A month ago, the PM announced the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War as a result of the changing global picture, now reaching 2.5% of GDP by April 2027, and with an ambition to reach 3% in the next Parliament subject to economic and fiscal conditions.

    We are going further and faster to protect our national security and maximise the economic growth potential of the UK defence sector.

    • Increasing the defence budget by £2.2 billion in 2025-26, taking additional spending on defence to over £5 billion since the Autumn Budget.

    • This raises spending on defence to 2.36% next year and will be invested in fitting Royal Navy ships with Directed Energy Weapons five years earlier than planned, providing better homes for military families and modernising His Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth.

    • Setting a minimum 10 percent ringfence for equipment spending on emerging technologies like drones and autonomous systems, dual-use technology, and AI-powered capabilities, so that British troops have the tools they need to fight and win in modern warfare.

    • Getting this new tech into the hands of our armed forces quicker by cutting away bureaucracy, with a new UK Defence Innovation unit within the Ministry of Defence spearheading efforts to identify promising technology and ensure these get to the frontline at speed, while also bolstering the UK tech sector and crowding in private investment.

    • Creating bespoke procurement processes for different types of military equipment, learning lessons from our rapid support for Ukraine to drive faster timescale targets for operationalising new tanks, aircraft and other essential tools for modern warfare.

    • This government is determined to transform the defence sector into an engine for growth by focusing this investment on where it boosts the productive capacity of the economy such as investment in innovation and novel technologies. As a result of the increase in defence spending to 2.5%, the government estimates this could lead to around 0.3% higher GDP in the long run, equivalent to around £11 billion of GDP in today’s money.

    • The government’s investment in defence will also support its number one mission to deliver economic growth. UK citizens will be protected from threats at home whilst creating a stable environment in which businesses can thrive, and supporting highly skilled jobs and apprenticeships across the whole of the UK.

    Reform

    The government is determined to make the public sector more productive and to improve services for working people. But the changing world means we need to go further and faster to ensure we can deliver the public services that working people care most about.

    The government has shown its commitment to taking the difficult decisions required to drive efficiencies and reform the state – including announcing that the world’s largest quango, NHS England, will be brought back into the Department for Health and Social Care, reducing bureaucratic inefficiencies and duplication; and driving out wasteful government spend through cancelling thousands of government credit cards.

    Getting more people into jobs is also central to the government’s growth mission. This broken welfare system that is letting people down by asking them to prove what they can’t do, rather than focusing on what they could do with the right support – trapping people due to fear of trying work, lack of support and poor financial incentives.

    The social security system will always protect those who can never work, that is why this government is proposing an additional premium that will safeguard their incomes. And will end reassessments for people with the most severe, life-long conditions to give them dignity and security.

    Helping more people into work is a central aim of these reforms and which is why the government is tackling incentives to be inactive by abolishing the WCA, rebalancing Universal Credit, and investing more into employment support.

    We will always support those with long term health conditions through the Personal Independence Payment, which will remain an important non-means tested benefit for disabled people and people with long term health conditions.  But these reforms will make the system more targeted and sustainable to ensure the safety net is there for those who need it most.

    The OBR have now set out their final assessment of costings and confirmed this welfare package will reduce welfare spending by £4.8 billion in 2029-30.

    The government will modernise the Civil Service into a more productive and agile organisation that can effectively deliver the Plan for Change, underpinned by a digital revolution, while cancelling thousands of government procurement cards. Today, the Chancellor has gone further.

    • The Chancellor has confirmed the creation of a £3.25 billion Transformation Fund to support the fundamental reform of public services, seize the opportunities of digital technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and transform frontline delivery to release savings for taxpayers over the long-term.

    • The Fund will invest in vital public services and accelerate the modernisation of the state by taking the next step to reform the children’s social care system through an additional £25 million for the fostering system. This will include funding the recruitment of a further 400 new fostering households, providing children with stability and addressing cost pressures on local government.

    • The fund will also support the managing offenders in the community, by providing £8 million for new technology so probation officers can focus on reducing reoffending, rather than filling out forms.

    • In addition, it will provide £42 million for three pioneering DSIT-led Frontier AI Exemplars. These Exemplars will test and deploy AI applications to make government operations more efficient and effective and improve outcomes for citizens by reducing unnecessary bureaucracy.

    • To create an agile and productive state we are also providing £150 million for government employee exit schemes. This will support a leaner and more efficient Civil Service, helping to reduce administration costs by 15% by the end of the decade.

    • The Chancellor also announced a package of measures to close the tax gap, raising £1 billion per year by 2029-30. The UK tax gap was estimated to be around £40 billion in 2022-23.

    • The Spring Statement earmarks around £80 million in new money for third party debt collectors to bring in £1.3 billion over the next five years – a return of around £16 for every pound spent for UK public services and investment projects. HMRC will also receive £4 million in new funding to pilot a new test and learn programme with the private sector to improve the tax collection agency’s approach to recouping older unpaid tax debt. Ministers will decide whether to proceed with a larger exercise later this year based on the results of this test.

    • An additional 600 staff will also be recruited into HMRC’s debt management teams. This means that for every £1 spent on these staff, over £13 of debt is expected to be recovered. The staff will work with the private sector to make collecting tax debt more efficient including through automating admin processes.

    • The Spring Statement also announces £100 million in new funding for HMRC to recruit a further 500 compliance officers from April 2025. This will raise £241 million in unpaid tax over the next five years.

    • Late payment penalties for VAT and Making Tax Digital for income tax Self Assessment will increase to incentivise taxpayers to pay on time. This will be from 2% to 3% at 15 days, 2% to 3% at 30 days, and 4% to 10% from day 31. This will take effect from April 2025.

    • As announced in the autumn, Making Tax Digital for income tax Self Assessment will be extended to sole traders and landlords with income over £20,000. The Spring Statement confirms that this additional group will join Making Tax Digital from April 2028. This will build on the existing plan which will see sole traders and landlords with income above £50,000 joining from April 2026, and those with income above £30,000 joining from April 2027.  Around 4 million businesses have an income below the £20,000 threshold.

    Looking Forward

    This Spring Statement builds on the Autumn Budget and the decisions taken since required to deliver stability to the British economy and kickstart economic growth.

    The government will set out its plans for spending and key public sector reforms at the Spending Review which will conclude on 11 June 2025.

    This will not be a business-as-usual Spending Review. The government has fundamentally reformed the process to make it zero-based, collaborative, and data-led, in order to ensure a laser-like focus on the biggest opportunities to rewire the state and deliver the Plan for Change.

    At the Spending Review, the Budget in the autumn and across the Parliament, the government will continue to prioritise growing the economy to deliver change.

    More information

    • The OBR concludes planning reforms will bring housebuilding to its highest level in 40 years.

    • Government calculations for the long-run impacts of higher defence spending are based on estimates from Antolin-Diaz and Surico (2025), forthcoming in the American Economic Review (AER), of the GDP impact of higher defence spending on GDP. Their estimates of the GDP multiplier stabilise after ten years at around 1.6, which is assumed to reflect an appropriate long-run multiplier for potential output, as any demand-side effects are likely to have dissipated at the ten-year horizon.

    • Defence spending as a share of GDP is set to rise from 2.3% to 2.5%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points. Applying an elasticity of 1.6 to this change implies a long-run increase in the level of potential output of approximately 0.3%. A long-run increase to the level of potential output of 0.3% is equivalent to around £11 billion of GDP in the long run, in today’s prices.

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    Published 26 March 2025

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Sen. Nikki Merritt to Hold Grayson Delegation Town Hall Meeting

    Source: US State of Georgia

    ATLANTA, GA (March 26, 2025) — Today, Sen. Nikki Merritt (D–Grayson) will host a Grayson Delegation town hall meeting alongside Rep. Segun Adeyina (D–Grayson) and Rep. Gabe Okoye (D–Lawrenceville) to discuss legislative updates from the session so far and community concerns with constituents.

    EVENT DETAILS:                      

    • Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
    • Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    • Location: Grayson Senior Center, 475 Grayson Parkway, Grayson, GA 30017
    • This event is open to the public.

    ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS:

    Please RSVP to info@segunforgeorgia.com.

    # # # #

    Sen. Nikki Merritt represents the 9th Senate District which includes portions of Gwinnett County. She may be reached at 404.463.2260 or via email at nikki.merritt@senate.ga.gov

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  • MIL-OSI: Bitget Wallet Champion Program Enters Beta with 40% Trading Rebate

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget Wallet, a leading Web3 non-custodial wallet, has launched the beta phase of “Bitget Wallet Champion” program, the first ecosystem partner initiative among Web3 wallets to feature a 40% built-in rebate mechanism.

    The Champion program aims to reward early supporters who help drive growth across the Bitget Wallet ecosystem. The participation of the beta phase is currently limited to invited KOLs, community leaders, and media channels. Selected partners who successfully join the program will not only enjoy a 40% rebate on their referees’ trading fees, but also gain access to a range of exclusive perks including airdrops from key partner projects, custom merchandise, and official traffic support.

    This initiative reflects a growing trend among Web3 platforms to deepen collaboration with creators, educators, and community builders through performance-based rewards. As a leading Web3 wallet with integrated crypto trading and payment tools, Bitget Wallet continues to expand its role in supporting ecosystem growth through incentive-driven programs. This initiative also marks a key step in Bitget Wallet’s efforts to bridge online influence with real-world presence, working in tandem with the upcoming Bitget Wallet Connect meetup series, which aims to bring builders and users together through curated local gatherings across key regions.

    The full version of the Bitget Wallet Champion program will be revealed in the coming weeks, with a broader rollout planned. “We believe Web3 growth should be community-powered and value-driven. Champion is a step toward building sustainable partnerships with those who share our vision,” said Alvin Kan, COO of Bitget Wallet.

    Interested participants can now apply for the beta via Bitget Wallet’s official X account.

    About Bitget Wallet
    Bitget Wallet is the home of Web3, uniting endless possibilities in one non-custodial wallet. With over 60 million users, it offers comprehensive onchain services, including asset management, instant swaps, rewards, staking, trading tools, live market data, a DApp browser and crypto payment solutions. Supporting over 130 blockchains, 20,000+ DApps, and millions of tokens, Bitget Wallet enables seamless multi-chain trading across hundreds of DEXs and cross-chain bridges, along with a $300+ million protection fund to ensure safety of users’ assets. Experience Bitget Wallet Lite to start a Web3 journey.

    For more information, visit: X | Telegram | Instagram | YouTube | LinkedIn | TikTok | Discord | Facebook

    For media inquiries, please contact: media.web3@bitget.com

    A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/b9fb3ae2-30d5-47b1-bce7-94f8725ae8d7

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  • MIL-OSI: Broadcom Simplifies and Accelerates Private Cloud Lateral Security with VMware vDefend Innovations

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    PALO ALTO, Calif., March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today introduced new updates to VMware vDefend that enable organizations to up-level security planning and assessment, simplify lifecycle management and operations, and seamlessly scale security across application environments. As organizations develop security plans for VMware Cloud Foundation(R) (VCF), these new technologies and guidance tools enable improved time-to-implementation and help efficiently maintain security operations for all critical and non-critical applications.

    “Organizations often navigate thousands of applications to power their business. This complexity makes it difficult to maintain visibility and lateral security across all applications,” said Umesh Mahajan, vice president and general manager, Application Networking and Security Division, Broadcom. “VMware vDefend simplifies how organizations achieve zero trust and private cloud security goals by cutting through complexity and providing a comprehensive lateral security implementation. The latest vDefend innovations further this efficiency by offering real-time security assessments, a next-generation security services platform to simplify operations, and micro-segmentation as code to further improve security operations.”

    VMware vDefend is available as an Advanced Service for VMware Cloud Foundation.

    Robust Private Cloud Security Planning and Assessment with Security Intelligence
    It is essential for security teams to quickly detect and investigate potential breaches in their environment. This requires a proactive approach to security planning and rapid time-to-implementation across all application workloads. To support this, VMware vDefend introduces a Security Segmentation Assessment and Report in its Security Intelligence tool for lateral security visibility and threat analytics. It provides a real-time assessment of an organization’s security segmentation posture for implementing a zero trust private cloud initiative. The assessment analyzes application traffic to deliver timely, data-driven insights related to application interactions, pinpointing potential security gaps due to insecure network protocols and inappropriate application communication, measuring progress with a security segmentation score, and offering actionable and easy-to-implement policy recommendations. This assessment, along with rule recommendations, help organizations rapidly roll out lateral security protection on VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall across all their applications and stay ahead of potential breaches. The Security Segmentation Assessment Report is available today.

    Simplified Security Operations
    To establish a sophisticated security plan, organizations need a consistent, reliable platform and an optimized approach to micro-segmentation that allows customers to apply security as part of the application deployment process. vDefend addresses these needs by introducing new updates, including:

    • Updates to Security Services Platform (SSP): SSP is a self-contained and scale-out platform that simplifies deployment of Security Intelligence as well as advanced threat prevention tools such as Network Detection and Response and Malware Prevention. The new SSP architecture greatly streamlines the user experience with a simplified network design, streamlined life cycle management, tailored user profile for security administrators, and easier workflows for configuration and deployment. The enhanced scale-out capability ensures that visibility and threat prevention automatically extend to large-scale VCF deployments.
    • Micro-segmentation as Code: vDefend Distributed Firewall offers an optimized and streamlined approach to micro-segmentation. It is built into the hypervisor and applies security to every workload with an API-driven model that plugs into automation frameworks. This allows customers to apply lateral security as part of the application deployment process and seamlessly scale micro-segmentation across application environments. It features a declarative context-based model to deploy the full intent of customers’ vDefend security policy in a single, simplified manner and includes built-in automation that eliminates the need for external scripting. This rich policy model applies to both virtual machines and container workloads to ensure consistent lateral security protection.
    • Network Detection and Response Enhancement for Air-Gapped Environments: The Network Detection and Response (NDR) capability of VMware vDefend now supports mechanisms for organizations to securely update threat intelligence in on-premises operations without external network access. This ensures that all detection, correlation, and response activities are executed with higher fidelity within the closed network leveraging both internally and externally sourced threat intelligence. NDR provides an additional layer of protection against targeted attack campaigns in sensitive, high-security or classified environments and supports industries with strict regulatory compliance.
    • VMware Validated Solutions design for secure VCF: This best practice design guide1 with prescriptive use case guidance enables security teams to rapidly roll-out zero trust lateral security for VCF’s management components and application workloads.

    These capabilities are available today.

    Third-Party Validation
    Third-party research reports outline the impact and value of vDefend. vDefend recently received an AAA rating for Advanced Threat Prevention in the SE Labs Advanced Security Test Report. The SE Labs methodology tests full chains of attack, including complex, multi-staged ransomware threats, and uses a variety of tools and techniques commonly employed by threat actors to analyze the performance of vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention. An AAA rating is the highest rating vendors can receive and indicates the use of best-of-breed threat detection algorithms.

    Additionally, a recently commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Broadcom, revealed that a composite organization representative of interviewed customers with experience using VMware vDefend:

    • Reduced their cyber breach risk by 40%
    • Cut security operations expenses by 25%
    • Avoided a 12% increase in cyber insurance premiums

    The study also showed that the composite organization realized a 116% return on investment using VMware vDefend. The full study can be accessed here.2

    Supporting Quotes

    “Deep application-level visibility and micro-segmentation for a zero trust private cloud is critical for us,” said Sarita Akula , senior manager, Infrastructure Platforms at University of Arts, London. “In a very short time, we enabled Security Intelligence’s application analytics with SSP, successfully segmented certain critical applications, and laid the groundwork for enabling advanced threat detection and prevention capabilities of vDefend.”

    “vDefend has been a critical technology in our journey to Zero Trust security for health care applications,” says Tyler Wertenbruch, IT technical manager at St. John’s Health. “With vDefend’s micro-segmentation-as-code capabilities, we were able to apply lateral security during the application on-boarding process, enabling us to ensure that security remains up to date and maintain a strong Zero Trust posture. We are looking forward to leveraging Security Intelligence’s enhancements for deeper visibility and assessment of our application environment.”

    “VMware vDefend’s Security Intelligence hosted on the enhanced Security Services Platform has become a critical tool for quickly securing our customers’ business applications”, said Michael Law, managing consultant engineer at CDW, “These vDefend enhancements for lateral security are unmatched in the industry.”

    Additional Resources

    About Broadcom
    Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

    (1)   1VMware Validated Solutions: Lateral Security for VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware vDefend, March, 2025
    (2)   2Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic ImpactTM Of Broadcom VMware vDefend, March, 2025

    Media Contact:

    Heather Haley
    Broadcom Global Communications
    heather.haley@broadcom.com
    925-856-8042

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  • MIL-OSI: Cloudera Appoints Leo Brunnick as Chief Product Officer

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, today announced the appointment of Leo Brunnick as Chief Product Officer. With more than 30 years of experience leading technology teams, Brunnick will work closely with CEO Charles Sansbury and the entire Cloudera leadership team to oversee the company’s product and technology direction.

    “Not many companies today understand that enterprises require flexibility to successfully deploy new solutions, but Cloudera clearly has that down,” said Brunnick. “Cloudera is the only data platform provider that offers both robust on-premises and cloud-native data and AI services to enable a truly hybrid experience behind customer firewalls. These capabilities, combined with the incredible AI talent and growing ecosystem of partners, are what drew me to the company.”

    Brunnick recently served as the Chief Operating Officer of Naviga, a software provider for content development in media. During his six years there, Brunnick led a team of more than 600 product, marketing, engineering, and customer support professionals. Prior to his time at Naviga, he held several leadership roles at Vignette, including EVP of Engineering, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer, until the company’s sale to OpenText in 2008. Brunnick also served as an officer in the Marine Corps and earned his MBA from Georgia State University after graduating from Harvard University with his bachelor’s degree in general engineering.

    “Leo’s experience guiding high-performing teams and translating customer needs into platform excellence will be invaluable to Cloudera as we continue to lead the data, analytics, and AI markets,” said Sansbury. “With Leo officially onboard, Cloudera is set to continue accelerating product innovation to provide our customers with the most robust hybrid solution on the market.”

    To learn more about Cloudera, visit www.cloudera.com.

    About Cloudera
    Cloudera is the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI. With 100x more data under management than other cloud-only vendors, Cloudera empowers global enterprises to transform data of all types, on any public or private cloud, into valuable, trusted insights. Our open data lakehouse delivers scalable and secure data management with portable cloud-native analytics, enabling customers to bring GenAI models to their data while maintaining privacy and ensuring responsible, reliable AI deployments. The world’s largest brands in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing, and government rely on Cloudera to use their data to solve what was once impossible—today and in the future. 

    To learn more, visit Cloudera.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. Cloudera and associated marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

    Contact
    Jess Hohn-Cabana
    cloudera@v2comms.com

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  • MIL-OSI Economics: Meet your AI Beauty Counselor: K-beauty giant Amorepacific builds an AI app for personalized advice

    Source: Microsoft

    Headline: Meet your AI Beauty Counselor: K-beauty giant Amorepacific builds an AI app for personalized advice

    Traditionally, salespeople at department stores or door-to-door have fulfilled that role. But these experts are scarce online. While beauty influencers abound, they usually promote specific products rather than what consumers want or need. 

    “We want to provide the same level of service that [customers] get offline in the online environment,” Hong said.  

    Hyper-personalization 

    Amorepacific was started 80 years ago by Suh Sungwhan, whose mother, Yun Dokjeong, bottled camellia oil by hand. It was the first Korean company to set up a cosmetics lab in the 1950s and to open a beauty counseling center in the 1960s. Today it is helmed by Suh’s son, Kyungbae Suh, and its well-known brands include Etude, Innisfree and Hera at the entry level, Laneige a step up and Sulwhasoo at the luxury end. 

    Amorepacific products are sold in more than 15 markets, the biggest being Korea, China and the rest of Asia Pacific. It is also making inroads in North America and Europe.  

    The organization was already using AI technology on its online Amore Mall to drive product search, recommendations and skin diagnosis when generative AI burst onto the scene about three years ago.  

    “We saw how we could make it [the online experience] a conversational service,” said Chikook Noh, Amorepacific’s AI Solutions Team Leader.

    Chikook Noh, Amorepacific’s AI Solution Team Leader, sees the app advising first on skincare then on make-up in future. Photo by Seong Joon Cho for Microsoft.

    The AIBC uses OpenAI’s GPT 4o and 4o-mini large language models on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to answer customer queries in the app. The underlying data is handled with Data Factory on Microsoft Fabric and AI Search functions in Azure AI Foundry. 

    The AIBC would help overcome a gap with the company’s existing online skin diagnosis tool on Amore Mall, Noh said. Currently consumers answer a series of questions such as “Is your skin oily? (Rate on a scale of 1 to 5)” and take a picture of their faces. It produces an overall score and dispenses advice on skincare and products. 

    This skin diagnosis tool has been used 2.5 million times online and in stores by consumers over the last four years. The IT department noticed an interesting thing – when used online via Amore Mall, “the transition to purchase tends to be on the lower side,” Noh said. But when used in a physical store, “the offline rate is very high because there is a conversation with the sales assistant.” 

    Sion Kim tries out the AI Beauty Counsellor app, which is being launched soon. Photo by Seong Joon Cho for Microsoft.

    The AI app aims to provide the kind of advice that store sales assistants provide to drive sales. Inputs for the AIBC will include consumers’ purchase history, review history as well as online skin diagnosis. The AIBC will then converse with the consumer to determine their current skin status and what their concerns are. 

    The most important thing is the “hyper-personalization. I know you. I know what troubles you have. I know what makes you feel good,” Noh said. 

    Different beauty needs 

    The AIBC development team anticipates interest even from those who don’t use a ton of beauty products. 

    Hyejin Yoon, 35, is at the other end of the consumer spectrum from Kim, the Pilates instructor. A former Chinese teacher for middle and high-schoolers, she now stays home with her one-year-old baby on the outskirts of Seoul. 

    Before the baby, she used various Amorepacific brands like Hera, Primera and Hanyul. Now there’s only time for a face wash, a toner and moisturizing cream from Illiyoon, a fragrance-free brand aimed at people with sensitive skin. She shares the cream with her baby. 

    “I have no time to put on so many steps because of the baby,” she said. 

    Hyejin Yoon is a time-pressed new mother in Seoul who says she would use the AI Beauty Counsellor app to suggest products for her skin. Photo by Seong Joon Cho for Microsoft.

    She noticed how her skin changed when she became a mother. “I feel my skin is getting drier and drier,” she said. “I am tired of having to keep trying different products.” 

    She briefly tried a test version of the AIBC app and said she could see herself using it, especially if it includes facial analysis. 

    The AI Beauty Counselor is Amorepacific’s first public-facing use of generative AI. 

    It follows the organization’s roll out in 2023 of a generative AI chat tool for internal use, also on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. That has been used for everything from summarizing medical research articles to creating interior designs for pop-up stores to creating marketing content. 

    Since the AIBC involves interacting with the public, the IT team has also taken pains to anticipate potentially risky subjects such as politics and religion. If a consumer touches on these subjects, the AIBC will reply: “This is a question we cannot answer,” according to Hong. 

    In the future, the goal is for the AIBC to go beyond text to include voice and images and dispense advice not just on skincare but also make-up and health supplements.

    Top Image: Sion Kim, a 26-year-old Pilates instructor, said she would use the AI Beauty Counsellor app to keep up with seasonal trends and what suits her skin type. Photo by Seong Joon Cho for Microsoft. 

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  • MIL-OSI: Turbo Energy Aims to ‘Set the Record Straight’ with Lawsuit Filed Against China-Based Sigenergy, Claiming False Advertising Regarding “World’s First 5-1 Energy Storage System”

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    VALENCIA, Spain, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Turbo Energy, S.A. (NASDAQ:TURB) (“Turbo Energy” or the “Company”), a global provider of leading-edge, AI-optimized solar energy storage technologies and solutions, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the Mercantile Court of Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain against Sigenergy International S.L. in an action for the cessation and rectification of illegal advertising relating to its baseless claim that its product marketed as SigenStor is the “world’s first highly integrated 5-in-1 energy storage system.”

    On June 12, 2023, China-based Sigenergy announced that it was “set to astound the world with its all-scenario energy solution, featuring the world’s first highly integrated 5-in-1 energy storage system,” at the EES Europe industry conference which was held in Munich, Germany that same week. Over the next year, Sigenergy followed with the implementation of a multi-channel promotional campaign, routinely broadcasting its claim to be the “world’s first…” on YouTube, its social media sites, its website and website blog and at industry trade show and conferences.

    By way of the lawsuit, Turbo Energy is alleging that Sigenergy’s promotional statements were blatantly false and misleading, particularly in light of the fact that Turbo Energy has been marketing its patented SUNBOX EV product, a highly integrated, all-in-one energy storage system, since its announced launch on April 22, 2022 and its official debut at the InterSolar Europe industry event held in Europe on May 11-13, 2022 – more than one year ahead of the introduction of SigenStor. 

    Mariano Soria, Chief Executive Officer of Turbo Energy, stated, “While it is our belief that Turbo Energy’s SUNBOX EV may indeed be the world’s first all-in-one energy storage innovation, we know for a fact that Sigenergy’s competing product, SigenStor, is not.  Therefore, we have filed this lawsuit with the objective of compelling Sigenergy to set the record straight by first acknowledging that the promotional statements they have made were unlawful and misleading, by publishing formal corrections in the press and on their website and by agreeing to refrain from continuing its unlawful advertising practices in the future.”

    Continuing, Soria said, “Turbo Energy is a global company defined, guided and inspired by our pioneering spirit, technological innovation and deeply embedded core values. Further, we recognize that we have chosen to pursue leadership in one of the fastest growing sectors of the sustainable energy industry – solar energy storage solutions — which has attracted a wide range of competitors to the space. Turbo Energy actually welcomes competitive pressure, because it serves to challenge us to be that much better and to reach further, faster.  What we don’t appreciate – and will not stand for — are competitors who elect to use deceptive advertising practices to misinform and mislead the customers we are all out there competing to win.”

    About Turbo Energy, S.A.

    Founded in 2013, Turbo Energy is a globally recognized pioneer of proprietary solar energy storage technologies and solutions managed through Artificial Intelligence. Turbo Energy’s elegant all-in-one and scalable, modular energy storage systems empower residential, commercial and industrial users expanding across Europe, North America and South America to materially reduce dependence on traditional energy sources, helping to lower electricity costs, provide peak shaving and uninterruptible power supply and realize a more sustainable, energy-efficient future. A testament to the Company’s commitment to innovation and industry disruption, Turbo Energy’s introduction of its flagship SUNBOX represents one of the world’s first high performance, competitively priced, all-in-one home solar energy storage systems, which also incorporates patented EV charging capability and powerful AI processes to optimize solar energy management. Turbo Energy is a proud subsidiary of publicly traded Umbrella Global Energy, S.A., a vertically integrated, global collective of solar energy-focused companies. For more information, please visit www.turbo-e.com.

    Forward-Looking Statements

    Statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and prospects, as well as any other statements regarding matters that are not historical facts, may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of the business of the Company, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control, including the risks described in our registration statements and annual report under the heading “Risk Factors” as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and Turbo Energy, S.A. specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

    For more information, please contact:

    At Turbo Energy, S.A.                                                 
    Dodi Handy, Director of Communications                       
    Phone: 407-960-4636                                                   
    Email: dodihandy@turbo-e.com 

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  • MIL-OSI USA: Art Exhibition No ‘Joke’ in Asking Hard Questions

    Source: US State of Connecticut

    Sure, in her spare time growing up Krista Mitchell did what any only child might do to keep busy – doodle in a notebook, design a maze like the one in her coloring book, devote hours to reading.

    But Mitchell ’25 (SFA, CLAS) says she often took those projects to the nth degree.

    “I actually made a household newspaper in which I wrote the articles and drew pictures to go with them. I even used to go crazy sending thank you cards to my family. I would do these elaborate drawings on the envelopes to the point that the post office would send them back because they couldn’t read the addresses,” she says. “So, yeah, I’ve always been very creative.”

    There should be no surprise then when, as a high school senior, she used an assignment to make an animal mask as an opportunity to build giant luna moth wings large enough for an adult to wear.

    And that final project for a basic photography class at UConn, of course it became the basis for a presentation at the Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium last year and the reason she was asked to talk during a Humanities Institute conversation on the loneliness epidemic in the fall.

    You bet, it even got her an on-air interview with Connecticut Public Radio.

    “All of this was absolutely meant to be,” she says. “It all just happened, honestly.”

    In the same way, she sort of fell into her latest project, “Joker Stardust,” an art exhibition on display this week that she says started as a critique of consumerism inspired by the 1980s but eventually morphed into a multilayered project focused on the 1960s and 1970s that asks the question, “Who am I?”

    Well, who is Krista Mitchell?

    Mitchell, a double major in English and art who’ll graduate in December, says she started at UConn planning to exclusively major in English and eventually embark on a career as a journalist or teacher. After all, in high school, she’d had success in various writing contests and people always told her she was a good writer.

    Krista Mitchell ’25 (SFA, CLAS) is a double major in art and English. Her solo art exhibition, “Joker Stardust,” opens March 27 and runs through March 30. (Branaugh Morton/Nutmeg Magazine)

    But that first year in college, she found herself drowning in the largeness of the University and escaped in the safety of her art minor.

    “I took my first art class, Drawing I, and noticed it gave me something I could channel my energy into,” she says. “I felt safe in the small classes where everybody knew who I was, and the teacher actually cared about me. She was the one who said, ‘Krista, there’s something about your artwork that is special. I don’t know what it is, but you have something, and I think you should keep going with it.’ That’s pretty high praise for someone who was just starting.”

    That’s the thing about art, she notes, “People think they can’t do it, but everyone has it in them. You just have to slow down and study your surroundings.”

    A passion for art started to grow inside her, so elevating it to a second major was a no-brainer. She elected the Bachelor of Arts track in the art and art history department over the Bachelor of Fine Arts because it allowed her to generalize her courses, rather than pick a specific concentration.

    If she had to pick, she says, she would have opted for animation and illustration – you might have seen her regular comics and illustrations in The Daily Campus – and that would have been the wrong choice, knowing what she knows now.

    “Doing this project, ‘Joker Stardust,’ has shown me that I would be a painting and drawing major because animation and illustration is more about communicating something for an editorial purpose or storytelling and making characters. My mind doesn’t work like that. I’m more of a conceptual person,” she says.

    She likes the bright colors of pop art, and things another person might describe as being “off” or just a little bit “creepy,” like those baby dolls whose eyelids open when upright and close when reclined.

    She absolutely loves liminal spaces like empty parking lots at night with only the overhead lights illuminated, giving an eerie glow to a familiar place. Candles also are a favorite, if only for the impermanence they represent.

    And, vaporwave, oh vaporwave, the aesthetic that pulls from the 1980s and 1990s is close to her heart, along with fashions from the 1960s and 1970s that she finds at thrift shops and wears around campus: cloth hairbands, chunky-heeled shoes, blazers with pinstriped lapels, and miniskirts.

    “I know what my vision is as an artist, and I’m able to apply it to a lot of different mediums,” she says. “I say that now, but I know in a couple years, I’ll again say, ‘I don’t know who I am,’ because that’s part of being an artist. You go through these phases of ‘Who am I?’ Fortunately, right now, I’m in a phase where I feel confident.”

    But is everything by chance?

    In coming to UConn, Mitchell received the Presidential Scholars Enrichment Award, giving her $2,500 for a project of her choosing. But one must choose carefully, and Mitchell mulled ideas for three years. Publishing a book seemed most logical. Then, she saw an art exhibition last spring from Irene Pham ’24 (SFA), a solo show that included paintings about Pham’s family, immigration, and the mixed feelings she had about the two.

    Mitchell had taken Art 1010, “Foundation: Studio Concepts,” with associate professor John O’Donnell early on in her studies and liked his teaching style. Plus, they share an affinity for vaporwave.

    “I sent him an email with an independent study proposal, explaining I wanted to do an exhibition. It was one of the longest emails I ever wrote, and amazingly he agreed. He hardly knew me, but he did remember me,” she says. “I’m so grateful to him because this has changed my life.”

    O’Donnell suggested she make a series of collages and use her time over the summer of 2024 to purchase panels of varying sizes and rummage second-hand stores for magazines, books, and other items.

    Krista Mitchell ’25 (SFA, CLAS) made this 3-by-3-foot collage for her upcoming art exhibition, “Joker Stardust.” The piece includes doilies that her grandmother made. (Krista Mitchell)

    Mitchell was close with her maternal grandmother, Catherine “Kay” Holloway, who left behind a treasure trove of collections and her own art creations when she died in 2015. Holloway didn’t have any formal art training, but was artistic, and Mitchell says she inherited things like her fondness for antiques and oddities from her.

    With O’Donnell’s advice in mind, Mitchell poured through her grandparents’ home, taking handmade doilies, handwritten sewing patterns, hand drawn five-point stars, among other things like Kewpie dolls, stained curtains, a half-drained Snoopy snow globe, and pink graph paper.

    “The thing with collages,” Mitchell explains, “it’s kind of like you’re going through an archive and taking the history of these objects and putting them in a new story. You’re almost recontextualizing them.”

    She spent at least a hundred hours cutting out pictures from magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal and Reader’s Digest and sorting images of Hummel figurines, angels, and Barbie dolls.

    That way, when winter break came early this year, she could start creating, again with O’Donnell’s words in mind reminding her to choose items intentionally, as if to tell a story, and not just for decoration.

    As she did, questions started swirling in her head: Why am I so much like my grandmother? Why am I like this? Why do I dress like this? Why do I like this stuff? The theme of consumerism muted to make room for concepts like individual creativity, religion, the meaning of life, and what happens after death.

    “I started to think about what this all could mean and what I landed on was one idea,” she says. “Could the belief that there is some sort of greater meaning to life or higher power give people an incentive to create with intention?

    “That’s when I realized I love a lot of this stuff because of the history behind it. My grandmother was very careful about building her collection of seemingly random things. She had her own artistic vision, and she was very intentional with how she did things and how they reflected the story she was trying to tell.

    “Like, I don’t know who owned this, but somebody did before I did,” Mitchell says, tugging at her second-hand jacket. “That’s kind of mysterious and interesting, right? There is something greater that connects me to my grandmother, that connects me to these interests I have, the way I dress, and the aesthetics of these previous time periods.”

    None of the 25 collages are titled, Mitchell says, and that’s intentional because they’re supposed to resemble things one might find at an antique store. As for the title of the show, “Joker Stardust,” that was purposeful, based on a joker card she found at her grandparents’.

    “Is everything around us by chance? Is it a joke or is there some sort of divine power making the world as it is or is it random,” Mitchell asks, adding that “stardust” hearkens to the 1970s David Bowie character Ziggy Stardust.

    As part of the project, she ended up publishing a book, putting her writing skills to use as she penned thoughts on each collage. She has 20 copies of “Joker Stardust” in her possession, some of which will be for sale during the show’s opening Thursday, March 27.

    “My parents have always been very supportive, all through school, helping me with stuff like this project. They’ve always been there, which I’m very grateful for,” she says.

    In the show, Mitchell says she’s placed a mirror, with the idea that you see not just your reflection but also those family members who came before you. How did these people find each other, she asks, because without them there wouldn’t be you.

    And without stardust, there wouldn’t be anything.

    “Joker Stardust” will open Thursday, March 27, in the VAIS Gallery, Room 109, in the Art Building on the Storrs campus. A reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. The show will be open Friday, March 28, through Sunday, March 30, from noon to 4 p.m.

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  • MIL-OSI: SAIC Announces ReadyOne™ Foundational: Latest Digital Engineering Ecosystem for Accelerated Innovation and Mission Effectiveness

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    RESTON, Va., March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Science Applications International Corp. (NASDAQ: SAIC) has announced the launch of ReadyOne™ Foundational – the company’s commercial-grade solution for a rapidly deployable, cloud-based digital engineering ecosystem that meets the Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction 5000.97 mandate and unique mission requirements of government customers. It is now available on the AWS Marketplace to accelerate deployment and help government avoid developing capabilities that are already commercially available.

    ReadyOne™ Foundational’s built-in digital thread accelerator unifies disparate data, tools and teams in real-time through a configurable, turnkey solution – enabling an out-of-the-box adoption of best practices in digital engineering. This offering grants customers access to a credentialed cloud-based environment that eliminates common DE barriers and is pre-loaded with data-models, software tools and connectors from the outset increasing mission effectiveness and saving costs over an entire lifecycle.

    “As threats to national security continue advancing and evolving, digital engineering is no longer optional for our Department of Defense customers and their mission-critical programs,” said Chris Finlay, Vice President of Innovation at SAIC. “ReadyOne™ Foundational accelerates the transition from traditional, document-based engineering methods to model-based techniques with digitally connected data for a complete digital engineering system for transparent, secure collaboration.”

    The platform’s built-in, tool-agnostic digital thread architecture, powered by Aras Innovator, eliminates vendor lock-in, making it a flexible and cost-effective offering when compared to traditional product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital thread solutions. Organizations can take full ownership of their tools and data by hosting ReadyOne™ Foundational in their own cloud environments, through cloud-to-cloud or on-premises delivery.

    Learn more information about ReadyOne™ Foundational and how it can accelerate your organization’s digital engineering transformation here.

    About SAIC 
    SAIC is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.  

    We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

    Media Contact: 
    Caralyn Duke
    757.784.4546
    caralyn.duke@saic.com

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  • MIL-OSI: XRP Whales Are Betting Big on $XPL – Is XploraDEX XRP’s 100x AI Breakout? Join $XPL PreSale

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    ZURICH, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As the first AI-powered decentralized exchange built natively on the XRP Ledger, XploraDEX isn’t just another DeFi protocol—it’s a full-blown trading revolution. Designed to bring institutional-grade automation and smart liquidity to the XRPL ecosystem, it’s now attracting the sharpest capital in the game.

    With the $XPL Presale currently live, investors are rushing in before the next major wave of interest hits. Could this be XRP’s first 100x breakout backed by real technology? If the whale wallets are right, the answer is yes.

    Buy $XPL Token

    Why XRP Whales Are Going All In on XploraDEX

    Whale activity is often the earliest sign of something big. These deep-pocketed investors don’t just chase hype, they move based on deep market insight. Here’s why they’re betting big on $XPL:

    First-Mover Advantage on XRPL: XploraDEX is the only AI-integrated DEX built specifically for the XRP Ledger, leveraging XRPL’s high-speed, low-fee structure to support cutting-edge trading execution.

    AI-Powered Trade Intelligence: From predictive analytics to automated order execution, XploraDEX gives traders tools typically reserved for hedge funds.

    Deep Liquidity Optimization: AI manages liquidity routing in real time—maximizing capital efficiency and reducing slippage, a key benefit for large-volume players.

    $XPL Token Utility

    Whales are accumulating $XPL not just for price action, but for access to AI tools, staking rewards, governance control, and trading fee reductions.

    What Is the $XPL Token? Why Does It Matter?

    The $XPL token isn’t just a placeholder, it’s a utility-rich, governance-enabled asset at the center of the XploraDEX ecosystem.

    $XPL Token Presale Details – Act Fast Before It’s Gone!

    The $XPL Token Presale is officially live! Don’t miss your chance to grab tokens before they hit major DEX listings.

    $XPL PreSale Information

    Token Name: XploraDEX

    Total Supply: 500,000,000

    Presale Allocation: First Come, First Serve!

    DEX Listing: 25% Higher

    Liquidity Pools: Launching immediately after TGE!

    The XPL Token Presale is already attracting major interest, early investors will gain first-mover advantages!

    Buy $XPL Tokens Now: https://sale.xploradex.io

    With whale participation already underway, $XPL’s demand is growing fast and supply is limited.

    The $XPL Presale – Your Early Access to the Future of DeFi on XRPL

    XploraDEX’s presale offers early entry at the lowest token price before listings and staking programs go live. This is the phase where 100x potential begins just as it did for early adopters of major tokens in 2017 and 2020.

    GET XPL TOKEN NOW

    The opportunity to buy $XPL now is like stepping into a new era of DeFi before it goes mainstream.

    Final Word: Follow the Smartest Money in XRP

    When XRP whales accumulate quietly, it’s never by accident. The sharpest investors have done the math: AI + DeFi + XRPL = explosive upside.

    XploraDEX isn’t just a new DEX—it’s the beginning of AI-enhanced, intelligent trading on XRP. And $XPL is the key to it all.

    Join the $XPL Presale Today: https://sale.xploradex.io

    Stay connected and Join the XploraDEX AI Revolution

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    Oliver Muller
    oliver@xploradex.io
    contact@xploradex.io

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  • MIL-OSI: Codego Launches CDG: New Plug-and-Play Devices for Effortless Daily Passive Income

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    Dubai, UAE, March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The CDG project has officially launched, introducing an innovative solution that enables everyone to earn passive income directly from their homes. With just a compact device, a power outlet, and an internet connection, CDG simplifies earning predictable, reliable, and hassle-free daily income. 

    Earn Daily Rewards Effortlessly

    CDG offers two user-friendly models: CDG Home and CDG Power Home, which provide GPU computing power to a decentralized computing network. In return, device owners receive daily rewards in the form of CDG credits.

    CDG credits operate similarly to loyalty points and can be conveniently exchanged for fiat currency through the easy-to-use CodegoPay app, available on both iOS and Android. Each credit maintains a guaranteed minimum value, ensuring consistent and predictable earnings.

    Why CDG is Different

    The concept of sharing computing resources isn’t new, but CDG’s implementation is uniquely accessible and efficient. CDG devices are incredibly energy-efficient: the CDG Home model consumes just 10 watts, and the powerful CDG Power Home uses only 30 watts. Designed for home use, these devices are compact, quiet, and discreet, seamlessly blending into any living space.

    Device owners begin generating income immediately upon activation. The CDG Home device generates a minimum of $5 per day, while the CDG Power Home offers at least $20 per day. Setup is straightforward, requiring no technical expertise. Simply plug the device in, connect through the CodegoPay app, and instantly start earning.

    Quick Start Guide

    Getting started with CDG is easy:

    1. Download the CodegoPay app (Android or iOS), and open your account to receive your personal IBAN instantly.
    2. Order your preferred CDG device via the app or through an authorized reseller.
    3. Activate your device using CDG credits with a few simple taps. Your daily earnings will be tracked in real time within the app.

    Pricing and Activation

    CDG offers two versatile device models:

    • CDG Home: Priced at $2,500, requiring 10,000 CDG credits for activation. It consumes only 10 watts and delivers daily rewards of 50 CDG credits, valued at a minimum of $5 per day.
    • CDG Power Home: Available for $10,000, requiring 40,000 CDG credits for activation. It consumes just 30 watts, providing daily earnings of 200 CDG credits, equivalent to at least $20 per day.

    Earn Even More with Referrals

    CDG users can further increase their income through a rewarding referral program:

    • Earn €150 cash for every friend who purchases a CDG Home, plus your friend receives a €50 discount.
    • Receive €600 cash for every friend who purchases a CDG Power Home, with your friend enjoying a €200 discount.

    Referral bonuses are paid directly to your bank account via the CodegoPay app.

    Contributing to a Growing Global Network

    By owning a CDG device, users actively contribute to a decentralized GPU network, essential for industries like gaming, artificial intelligence, and mobile services. As the global demand for GPU computing power continues to grow, the potential value of CDG credits increases, providing additional long-term value.

    About CDG and Codego

    The CDG project was developed by Codego, a fintech leader providing secure, comprehensive digital banking solutions. Codego offers core banking, prepaid and debit card issuance, and European IBAN accounts, supporting more than 12 fiat currencies and over 500 cryptocurrencies.

    Thanks to Codego’s advanced financial infrastructure, users enjoy a seamless experience in managing their CDG devices through the CodegoPay app, which includes integrated IBAN accounts, secure real-time earnings tracking, and compliance with the PSD2 regulatory standards.

    Learn more about Codego and the CDG project:

    Codego (Website) | CDG (Website) | X (Twitter) | Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok

    Discover how CDG transforms passive income generation—simple, efficient, and rewarding from day one.

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  • MIL-OSI: Xsolis Announces Its Return as Platinum Sponsor of the American Case Management Association (ACMA) National Conference for the 7th Consecutive Year

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    FRANKLIN, Tenn., March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Xsolis, an AI-driven technology company that reduces administrative waste by enabling collaboration between healthcare providers and payers, announces its return as Platinum Sponsor of the American Case Management Association (ACMA) National Conference for the 7th consecutive year. The ACMA National Conference will take place April 3-6 at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado, and features leaders and professionals affiliated with case management and transitions of care.

    “Xsolis continues to support the case management community and the ACMA organization by solving some of the industry’s most pervasive operational issues like staffing shortages and revenue challenges with our AI-driven solutions,” said Joan Butters, co-founder and CEO of Xsolis. “The ACMA National Conference provides unique opportunities for Xsolis leadership to exchange ideas with clients and other leaders who are changing the industry with more efficient authorization processes and payer-provider collaboration.”

    As a Platinum Sponsor, Xsolis will present several opportunities for attendees to engage with its leaders and solutions, including a Platinum Speaking Session, which will be held at Maple 1-2:

    • Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:30 pm MT: Accelerating Concurrent Authorization & Optimizing Length of Stay Timelines Through AI-Powered Health Plan Collaboration featuring Hoa Cooper, RN, DNP, Vice President, Care Management at OSF Healthcare; Matthew Gorman, DO, MBA, Medical Director, Care Management at OSF Healthcare; and Heather Bassett MD, Chief Medical Officer at Xsolis

    Informational in-booth client speaker sessions will also be held at Xsolis Booth 401:

    • Friday, April 4, 2025, 1 pm MT: Southern Star: A Health System’s Rise with AI-Powered Efficiency & Collaborative Care featuring Kayla Long, MSN, RN, ACM, Director of Case Management at UMC Health System
    • Friday, April 4, 2025, 5 pm MT: Optimized Discharge Planning & Length of Stay Management with AI-Powered Insights featuring Hoa Cooper, RN, DNP, Vice President of OSF HealthCare Management
    • Saturday, April 5, 2025, 12 pm MT: AI-Facilitated Payer-Provider Collaboration: Unlocking Efficiency, Coordination, & Improved Results featuring Pam Foster, MBA, MSW, Vice President of Care Coordination at HonorHealth

    Xsolis is also proud to be the Premier Partner of the ACMA Case Management Hero Award, which was established to recognize case management professionals who continually deliver exemplary service for their patients and families, but also face a major life challenge and could benefit from ACMA’s support.

    The ACMA National Conference features exceptional learning opportunities with over 80 practitioner-led breakout sessions, inspiring keynotes and a vast exhibit hall showcasing supporting and affiliated industry companies. The conference is known for quality educational content and is an opportunity to share knowledge, learn and network with nurses, social workers, physicians, health plan and other health care professionals affiliated with case management and transitions of care.

    To learn more about ACMA activities with Xsolis, visit https://www.xsolis.com/2025-acma-national/.

    About Xsolis 

    Xsolis is an AI-driven technology company that reduces administrative waste by enabling collaboration between healthcare providers and payers. Dragonfly®, its AI-driven proprietary platform, is the first and only solution to use real-time predictive analytics to continuously assign an objective medical necessity score and assess the anticipated level of care for every patient, enabling more efficiency across the healthcare system. Xsolis is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. For more information, visit www.xsolis.com.

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  • MIL-OSI: ManTech Paves the Way in Secure AI Adoption with Google Cloud for Secure Data

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    HERNDON, Va., March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ManTech, a premier provider of AI and mission-focused technology solutions, today announced that it is operationalizing Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform and Gemini models within a Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) environment at Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2. This achievement marks a significant step forward in the responsible and secure adoption of advanced AI for government and defense applications.

    “We are dedicated to providing innovative AI solutions that equip our employees and clients with the tools to excel in a cyber world rapidly evolving at unprecedented technological speeds,” said Mike Uster, ManTech Chief Technology & Information Officer. “By integrating Google Gemini models into our production environment at CMMC Level 2, we are demonstrating our dedication to harnessing the power of AI in a secure and compliant manner to drive innovation and efficiency for our clients.”

    “ManTech’s deployment of Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Gemini in a secure CMMC Level 2 environment is a major step forward in bringing the power of responsible AI to the public sector,” said Tony Orlando, General Manager Specialty Sales, Google Public Sector. “By leveraging advanced capabilities for large-scale data analysis and streamlined operations, this collaboration unlocks the potential for groundbreaking solutions that drive innovation and efficiency for government agencies.”

    ManTech’s implementation of the Vertex AI platform and Gemini models focuses on leveraging its advanced capabilities for tasks such as:

    • Large-scale data analysis: Gemini models on Vertex AI’s one million token context window, for the processing and analysis of vast quantities of data, enabling deeper insights and more informed decision-making.
    • Streamlined operations: Automating tasks such as report generation and data summarization frees valuable time and resources for innovation versus routine tasks.

    Security at the Forefront of AI Adoption

    ManTech has prioritized the secure implementation of the Vertex AI platform and Gemini models, addressing key requirements for AI deployment in sensitive environments including:

    • Data Encryption: All CUI data processed by the Gemini models encrypted both in transit and at rest, ensuring its confidentiality and integrity.
    • Source Data Citation: Gemini models provides clear citations to the source data used in its responses, enabling traceability and validation of information.
    • Proprietary Information Protection: Strict access controls and data governance policies are in place to safeguard ManTech’s and its clients’ proprietary information.

    “This achievement by ManTech accelerates adoption of advanced AI technologies within secure government and defense environments,” said ManTech Chief Innovation Officer Eric Brown. “By prioritizing security and compliance, ManTech is setting a new standard for responsible AI implementation in the public sector.”

    About ManTech
    ManTech provides mission-focused technology solutions and services for U.S. Defense, Intelligence and Federal Civilian agencies as a 57-year Industry Partner with the Federal Government. We are a leading mission and enterprise technology provider that powers AI, full-spectrum cyber, data collection & analytics, high-end digital engineering and software application development solutions that support national and homeland security. Additional information on ManTech can be found at www.mantech.com.

    Media Contact:
    Jim Crawford
    Executive Director, External Communications
    Mobile: 703-498-7315
    James.Crawford2@ManTech.com

    A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/a34975d5-c3b0-47a7-b0e8-96bd27bed550

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  • MIL-OSI: OSS Announces Order from Innovative Medical Imaging OEM

    Source: GlobeNewswire (MIL-OSI)

    ESCONDIDO, Calif., March 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS or the Company) (Nasdaq: OSS), a leader in rugged Enterprise Class compute for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and sensor processing at the edge, today announced a new $500,000 contract from a medical imaging OEM customer that is expected to contribute to revenue throughout 2025.

    Under the terms of the contract, OSS will provide 4U, short-depth-server (SDS) running Enterprise Class NVIDIA GPUs to support a customer’s innovative, FDA cleared, medical imaging technology for Breast Scanning. After this initial order, OSS expects follow-on orders from this medical OEM for next-generation liquid-cooled 3U-SDS that may become standard on all the OEM’s Breast Scanning devices going forward.

    “We are excited to establish a market position with this leading medical OEM customer as they increase production of their advanced breast imaging technology and improve outcomes for the more than 40 million women in the U.S. who get mammograms every year. This contract reflects the growing need across commercial markets for ruggedized, enterprise class compute capabilities. It also highlights our focus on pursuing high-growth, high-margin, and multi-year platform opportunities across both defense and commercial markets. We believe this contract has the potential to contribute over $25 million in cumulative sales over the next five years,” stated OSS President and CEO, Mike Knowles.

    About One Stop Systems
    One Stop Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSS) is a leader in AI enabled solutions for the demanding ‘edge’. OSS designs and manufactures Enterprise Class compute and storage products that enable rugged AI, sensor fusion and autonomous capabilities without compromise. These hardware and software platforms bring the latest data center performance to harsh and challenging applications, whether they are on land, sea or in the air.

    OSS products include ruggedized servers, compute accelerators, flash storage arrays, and storage acceleration software. These specialized compact products are used across multiple industries and applications, including autonomous trucking and farming, as well as aircraft, drones, ships and vehicles within the defense industry.

    OSS solutions address the entire AI workflow, from high-speed data acquisition to deep learning, training and large-scale inference, and have delivered many industry firsts for industrial OEM and government customers.

    As the fastest growing segment of the multi-billion-dollar edge computing market, AI enabled solutions require-and OSS delivers-the highest level of performance in the most challenging environments without compromise.

    OSS products are available directly or through global distributors. For more information, go to www.onestopsystems.com. You can also follow OSS on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn.

    Forward-Looking Statements
    One Stop Systems cautions you that statements in this press release that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the Company’s current beliefs and expectations. The inclusion of forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by One Stop Systems or its partners that any of our plans or expectations will be achieved, including but not limited to the potential and/or the results of this commercial program contract, any actual revenue or cumulative sales derived from the contract, the future adoption of technologies or applications, and the expansion of the Company’s offerings and/or relationship with commercial customers. Actual results may differ from those set forth in this press release due to the risk and uncertainties inherent in our business, including risks described in our prior press releases and in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including under the heading “Risk Factors” in our latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent filings with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, which is made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

    Media Contacts:
    Robert Kalebaugh
    One Stop Systems, Inc.
    Tel (858) 518-6154
    Email contact

    Investor Relations:
    Andrew Berger
    Managing Director
    SM Berger & Company, Inc.
    Tel (216) 464-6400
    Email contact

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  • MIL-OSI Economics: What’s next for corporate net zero? Join GlobalData’s webinar to find out how to adapt your ESG strategy

    Source: GlobalData

    What’s next for corporate net zero? Join GlobalData’s webinar to find out how to adapt your ESG strategy

    Posted in Strategic Intelligence

    Decarbonization has become one of the most disruptive trends across all industries. Virtually every major company in every sector now has a strategy for reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. This impacts their relationships with suppliers, clients, and customers and drives investment in new technologies, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

    Against this backdrop, the GlobalData Strategic Intelligence team invites you to attend its “What next for corporate net zero?” webinar on Thursday, 27 March 2025, at 4pm GMT/12pm EDT.

    During this webinar, Chris Papadopoullos, Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence at GlobalData, and Grace Fan, Managing Director, Global Policy Research and Disruptive Themes Research, TS Lombard, will take a deep dive into net zero to find out:

    • The impact of Trump 2.0 on corporate net zero strategies.
    • The biggest emissions challenges facing companies approaching 2030 targets.
    • The emerging strategies and technologies of corporate sustainability leaders.

    Papadopoullos says: “Despite an anti-ESG backlash in the US, major companies have broadly stuck to their environmental goals. However, companies must balance their communications to appease anti-ESG and pro-ESG stakeholders.

    “The main challenges corporates will need to overcome between now and 2030 to achieve emissions targets include trying to find enough renewable energy, decarbonizing artificial intelligence, reducing emissions from agriculture and land use, and finding high-quality carbon offset projects in which to invest.”

    Fan adds: “Although the shape of the green transition is changing as global geopolitics scrambles supply chains and the AI-energy-water nexus adds new stresses on national grids, decarbonization as a structural force is here to stay. This makes it imperative for companies to think beyond the next few years to future-proof their strategies.”

    Register now for GlobalData’s “What next for corporate net zero?” webinar on Thursday 27 March 2025 at 4pm GMT/12pm EDT.

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