The Charlotte (NC) Fire Department recently demonstrated two of its antique fire apparatus: a hand pumper and a steam pumper. 

For more information on steam pumper, visit: Firefighters, Engineers Get Antique Charlotte (NC) Fire Engine to Pass Modern Safety Standards

EXTON, PA—United States Seating Company ("USSC") has completed its first acquisition since partnering with Dubin Clark & Company, Inc. ("Dubin Clark"), acquiring the outstanding ownership of 4ONE LLC ("4ONE"). 4ONE was founded in 2005 to provide safe, secure, and innovative passenger seating solutions for the public transit market. 4ONE experienced significant growth over the last decade and currently supplies more than 50 percent of the public transit passenger seating in North America. 

"We are excited to consolidate all of our public transportation seating under one brand to better serve our customers," said Joseph Mirabile, president and CEO of USSC. “USSC is growing at an unprecedented pace across multiple markets. The partnership with Dubin Clark has allowed our company to accelerate our investment in innovative technology and products that continue to improve safety and survivability in the markets we serve."

"Dubin Clark is excited about the 4ONE acquisition by USSC," said Mike Hompesch, partner at Dubin Clark. "The combined business is positioned for significant growth.  We look forward to continuing to invest in further expanding the USSC portfolio of products."

USSC (http://www.usscgroup.com/) designs and engineers world-class safety and survivability products for commercial and military transportation markets. As a global leader in the seating industry, USSC continues to develop the most durable and ergonomically designed seats to reduce day-to-day occupant fatigue and stress. 

Dubin Clark (http://www.dubinclark.com/) is a private investment firm that has a 33-year history of investing in middle-market buyouts and building businesses in partnership with the managements of their portfolio companies. Dubin Clark has a national reputation for helping successful middle-market companies reach new levels of sales and earnings.

Evans Incorporated (Evans) recently announced that it has launched a new division, PropelUAS, which is aimed at changing the game and forging the future of UAS Program implementation process and technology. PropelUAS’ team of unmanned systems, air traffic control, aviation training, human factors, airports, and aviation strategy experts form an innovative, full-spectrum experience, from ‘Idea’ to ‘Operations’ (IDEA-OPS™). This gives organizations the capability to navigate often complex and overwhelming regulatory channels with a ‘what’s allowed where, what’s not, and where exceptions can be made,’ to its ‘been there, done that’ approach.

PropelUAS differentiates itself from key competitors in the UAS space in its ability to operate as an innovative ‘translator’ across the UAS program implementation process, to navigate key ever-changing regulatory and technology landscape considerations and maximize outcomes within a larger operational context. PropelUAS leverages the latest tools and determines the correct platform, sensor, or software for the job to ensure organizational integration to maximize the bottom line. This creates ROI – Real Operational Impact™ to derive top benefits and value from their UAS programs overall. Its ability to compress public and private sector questions about aviation regulation, compliance, standards, and impacts to ‘near-zero’ and in real-time - saves clients time and money to get programs started as much as 20% faster than a competitor without this knowledge, and getting them back more quickly to focusing on their core business.

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Targeting key organizations within a number of industries, including PropelUAS, drives unmatched expertise and value to advance the UAS industry and technology as a whole, focusing on four chief service offerings:

• Strategy;
• Operations;
• Safety; and
• Risk Mitigation.

As Law Enforcement is among the top target markets for early roll-out of its expertise and services, PropelUAS officially launched this week at the Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA)’s annual expo in Reno, Nevada. PropelUAS’ Andy Osantowske will conduct a technical briefing on the conference center floor titled, “UAS Regulatory Paths of Law Enforcement Organizations,” on July 27. 2017, from 1:00-1:45pm PDT. Other target industries for focus following the initial launch include Emergency Management, First Responders, Security, State and Local Government, Oil and Gas (Energy), Industrial Inspection, Construction, Telecommunications, Media and Agriculture.

“PropelUAS is truly changing the game - bringing a smart, innovative, and full-spectrum approach to the often overwhelming and challenging UAS program implementation process,” Bob Etris, Director of PropelUAS’ and Evans’ Aviation Business, said. “The Law Enforcement space has continued to become more sophisticated when it comes to UAS technology and initiati