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Labcon North America | October 22, 2021

Labcon North America , the world's leading manufacturer of Earth Friendly® laboratory disposables, announced today a $59.3 million contract award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on behalf of and in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contract is for the domestic manufacturing expansion of pipette tips and tubes as a part of the supply chain for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Labcon's pipette tips and tubes, currently in production, have directly supported researchers developing COVID-19 vaccines while the tubes provide sterile airtight vessels for storage, testing and sample transport. This COVID-19 supply chain effort will allow Labcon to increase production capacity from 100 million to 236 million pipette tips per month. Tube production will increase from 27 million to approximately 58 million tubes per month by October 2025. This expansion of capacity will occur in Petaluma, California and is expected to create dozens of new jobs in the Northern California region. "We are honored to be given this award at a critical time in the global pandemic and hope this effort by the U.S Government will better position the country for future pandemics," said Jim Happ, President of Labcon North America. The U.S Department of Defense Assisted Acquisition (DA2) Cell led this effort in coordination with the U.S Department of the Air Force's Acquisition COVID-19 Task Force (DAF ACT). This effort was funded through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA0 to enable and support domestic industrial base expansion for critical medical resources. About Labcon Labcon is the world's leading producer of low carbon laboratory disposables and was the first to market compostable plastics for laboratories. Labcon's focus on sustainable solutions for laboratories dates to 1994 with the first low carbon products. A UL-Certified ISO 9001:2015 company; Labcon North America is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Association for Computing Machinery | July 01, 2020

An Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) tech policy group today urged lawmakers to immediately suspend use of facial recognition by businesses and governments, citing documented ethnic, racial, and gender bias. In a letter (PDF) released today by the U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USTPC), the group acknowledges the tech is expected to improve in the future but is not yet “sufficiently mature” and is therefore a threat to people’s human and legal rights. “The consequences of such bias, USTPC notes, frequently can and do extend well beyond inconvenience to profound injury, particularly to the lives, livelihoods, and fundamental rights of individuals in specific demographic groups, including some of the most vulnerable populations in our society,” the letter reads.

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Infinidat | December 08, 2020

Infinidat, the market's leading provider of multi-petabyte information storage arrangements, today declared that it has consented to an arrangement to disclose immixGroup its sector distributor, making huge new open doors for value-added resellers (VARs) to develop their business by selling Infinidat's demonstrated storage arrangements into the public authority market. Under the particulars of the agreement, immixGroup will add Infinidat's storage stage and administrations to its U.S.- based bureaucratic, state and neighborhood government buying vehicles. This relationship makes accessible to government offices Infinidat's inventive securing model with versatile evaluating and adaptable alternatives, giving VARS a convincing value suggestion to enter and extend in the public authority market. “As government agencies accelerate digital transformation, we are empowering our partners to build services and solutions on our proven, state-of-the-art platform to help government agencies reduce the risk, cost and complexity of their most important asset, their data,” said Mitch Diodato, Channel Sales Director at Infinidat “By forming a relationship with a leading distributor and broadening access through immixGroup’s contract purchasing vehicles, we’re providing differentiated storage solutions that are otherwise unavailable to government agencies and partners through legacy enterprise storage providers.” With the expansion of Infinidat's foundation and administrations, immixGroup gains another appropriation relationship that gives market-leading storage arrangements. The resellers who are as of now lined up with immixGroup and are supporting government organizations presently approach Infinidat's answers and demonstrated client care and administrations. This makes it simpler for government organizations to secure demonstrated venture storage arrangements from Infinidat, which has had achievement in the business market for almost 10 years. immixGroup, an Arrow Electronics organization, is a value-added distributor that helps innovation organizations work with the public authority. immixGroup empowers IT makers and arrangement providers to develop their public sector business and quicken the business cycle. Government offices trust immixGroup to give dependable admittance to a wide scope of big business programming and equipment items through their favored agreements and colleagues. Infinidat's recently shaped relationship with immixGroup is an expansion of its current relationship with Arrow Electronics. About Infinidat Infinidat helps enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. Infinidat’s software-focused architecture delivers sub-millisecond latency, 100% availability, and scalability with a significantly lower total cost of ownership than competing storage technologies. The company was founded by storage industry pioneer, Moshe Yanai, in 2011 and has shipped over 6.6EB worldwide to date.

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