Article - LIBN 2012-04-26 - LIFT, Canadian officials discuss LI technology
Only a few hours ahead of a fierce battle between New York and Ottawa's hockey teams, officials from Long Island and Canada were all smiles as they talked about a potential effort to improve business between the two regions.
The Long Island Forum for Technology played host today to John Prato, the Canadian consul general, and a large group of Canadian law enforcement officials to discuss ways Long Island could get a piece of the Northern Borders Initiative - an anti-terrorism and drug strategy employed by the Canadian and U.S. governments... MORE
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Article - LIBN 04/20/2012 - LIFT, Alcott Group partner on HR education
Following its partnership with the Long Island Capital Alliance, the Long Island Forum for Technology has announced it has created a strategic partnership with Farmingdale-based Alcott HR Group. Through the alliance, Alcott's human resources experts will educate LIFT member companies on payroll administration, employee benefits design and administration, tax administration and regulatory compliance... MORE
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Press Release - Digital Journal 03/29/2012 - HIA-LI 24th Annual Business Trade Show & Conference to Showcase Innovation, Leadership Among Long Island Companies
Sponsors and exhibitors are gearing up to meet one-on-one with thousands of Long Island business leaders during the region's largest one-day Business to Business Trade Show... MORE
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Press Release - MarketWire 03-22-2012 - Long Island Capital Alliance Announces Major Success for Homeland Security and Defense Capital Forum
The Long Island Capital Alliance ("LICA"), the leading non-profit capital formation and business development organization serving regional companies, today announced the successful completion of the Homeland Security and Defense Capital Forum held on March 9. The event was held in partnership with the Long Island Forum for Technology ("LIFT").
"In our first collaborative effort with LIFT, we are delighted to have achieved considerable success with our Homeland Security and Defense Capital Forum," said Jeffrey L. Bass, Chairman of LICA.... MORE
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Article - LIBN Young Island 02/24/2012 - Cyber security - A growing threat and a business opportunity
The Long Island Software and Technology Network and Long Island Forum for Technology recently held its "Growing Your Cyber Security Business" event at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage... MORE
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Article - Government Security News 02/21/2012 - Gen. Hayden says it's time to look at the consequences of cyber attacks
Gen. Michael Hayden (USAF-Ret.), having served as head of the NSA and then head of the CIA, ought to know a few things about the current state of cyber security in America. So, when Hayden says the U.S. may be spending too much time thinking about cyber vulnerabilities and not enough time thinking about the actual consequences of a successful cyber attack, it probably makes sense to pay attention.... MORE
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Article - Newsday 02/21/2012 - Protecting businesses from cyber attacks
Long Island's business and technology leaders began an effort Tuesday to start a new industry here that would focus on protecting companies, government agencies and individuals from cyber attacks that have been increasingly causing chaos in the financial world and other industries.
More than 100 business people, educators and government officials crowded into an auditorium at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage for speeches, a panel discussion and explanations of government aid programs dealing with cyber security. The event was organized by LIFT - the Long Island Forum for Technology - and LISTnet, the private technology organization... MORE
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Article - LIBN 02/21/2012 - LIFT, LISTnet partnership eyes opportunities
Two of Long Island's most well-known technology organizations are attempting to shine a light on the plethora of government opportunities that currently exist for information-technology companies. The Long Island Forum for Technology, in conjunction with the Long Island Software and Technology Network, hosted its first joint event Tuesday, bringing in more than 100 individuals in the IT arena eager to find out about grants and other opportunities that exist with the federal
government in the realm of cyber security... MORE
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Press Release - MarketWire 02/16/2012 - Long Island Capital Alliance Announces Strategic Partnership With Long Island Forum for Technology
The Long Island Capital Alliance (LICA), the leading non-profit capital formation and business development organization serving regional companies, today announced a strategic partnership with the Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT). The partnership with LIFT will facilitate LICA's reach into the burgeoning and fragmented technology industry. Initially focusing on one technology sector, LIFT will play a major role as a partner in LICA's Homeland Security and Defense Capital Forum scheduled for March 9... MORE
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Article - Long Island Press 02/08/2012 - Nassau holds pharmacy security summit
Saud Ansari has been a pharmacist for about 25 years, owns a pharmacy in Woodmere and deals in giving sick Long Islanders the medicine they need to fight off various illnesses and diseases.
Never did he realize he would be on the "front line" of the war against prescription drug abuse, a term that isn't usually applied to suburban small business owners, but was repeatedly used during a pharmacy security summit held in Bethpage on Tuesday.
"This has always been a problem," Ansari said during the three-hour event held at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. "But I think recently in the last couple of months or years... it has really sky rocketed."...
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Article - Newsday 02-07-2012 - Bethpage forum tackles pharmacy security
Drug treatment experts and law enforcement officials gathered Tuesday at a summit and called for a coordinated approach to combating prescription drug abuse across Long Island.
"We will end this terrible trend that has led to so many tragedies," Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano told more than 100 people at a prescription drug summit at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage...
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Article - First Responder 01/19/2012 - Roving sensors to catch wireless network infiltrators
The recent widespread growth of wireless networks to allow for computer mobility has created new threats to the security of critical infrastructure. While mobility improves productivity, each wireless-enabled computer with network access is another entry point into the network, meaning that these computers pose a security risk. Moreover, the wireless network itself is an avenue for breaking into a system. Infiltration via wireless networks can be as simple as driving a car near a facility and opening up a laptop.
To help secure wireless computer networks for the protection of critical infrastructure, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has funded the development of the WildCAT (Cyber Asset Tracking)... MORE
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Article - Wall Street Journal 01-19-2012 - NY suburb to hold forum on pharmacy safety
Pharmacists and law enforcement officials in suburban Nassau County will soon meet to discuss ways to improve store security... MORE
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Article - Long Island Press 01-18-2012 - Nassau to host pharmacy security summit
Nassau County officials have scheduled a security summit for pharmacists and law enforcement next month following the second deadly drug store robbery in a six-month span on New Year's Eve... MORE
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Article - Empire State News Net 01-18-2012 - Nassau pharmacy robberies prompts summit
Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and District Attorney Kathleen Rice today announced that Nassau County's Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse Prevention Task Force will partner with InfraGard, an FBI public-private partnership, and the Long Island Pharmacy Crimes Task Force to offer a Pharmacist Security Summit on February 7, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at The Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage... MORE
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Article - Newsday 01-18-2012 - Nassau security summit aims at pharmacists
Nassau County will hold a security summit next month to help local pharmacists protect themselves from robbers desperate for pain pills.
The Feb. 7 event at Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage is sponsored by the Nassau Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse Prevention Task Force, the Long Island Pharmacy Crimes Task Force and InfraGard, an FBI public-private partnership... MORE
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Article - Newsday 01-15-2012 - LIFT buying site for composites training
Frank Otto, president of the Long Island Forum for Technology, signed papers late last week to purchase a 25,000-square-foot building in Plainview that will be used to help companies in
Nassau and Suffolk counties stay in the aircraft business in the future. That future is going to involve the use of composites... MORE
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Article - Newsday 01-12-2012 - Security focus on LI manufacturing
Some U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials stopped by the Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage earlier this week to discuss plans to protect one of Long Island's staples, its manufacturing sector... MORE
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Article - LIBN 12-16-2011 - LIFT creates rail supplier alliance
Using a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration, LIFT this week announced that it has created the Long Island Rail Suppliers Alliance - a group of 50 to 60 companies who will work in conjunction to secure large rail contracts for local suppliers. LIFT was one of just 11 organizations nationwide to receive the grant... MORE
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Article - Newsday 12-15-2011 - LI rail suppliers group gets off the ground
A local industry that would build parts and security equipment for the nation's railroad companies took a step toward becoming reality earlier this week, when executives of 65 small businesses gathered in Bethpage to create the Long Island Rail Suppliers Alliance.... MORE
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Article - Newsday 12-12-2011 - Partnering to push for rail-parts contracts
Diurno, president of Power Resources International Inc. in West Babylon, which builds software and hardware that monitors equipment at railroad substations, hopes big companies and big government agencies will treat his business differently in the future.
That's because Power Resources is joining forces with other Long Island companies that make railroad parts to compete together for big contracts... MORE
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Article - LIBN 12-08-2011 - Long Island wins $101M in NY eco dev funding
Long Island was named one of the four "Best Plan Awardees" by New York state, receiving $101.6 million in state funding... MORE
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Article - Newsday 12-08-2011- LI wins $101.6 million in state jobs aid
Long Island is one of four New York regions that will receive more than $100 million each in state aid to begin implementing job-growth plans, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday... MORE
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Radio - HJMT 11-17-2011 - LIFT discusses economic development initiatives
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Article - Newsday 11-03-2011 - LIFT readying for future with composites
One day soon there will be an industry worth about $100 billion. It will be based on using advanced composite materials to build everything from airplanes to body parts... MORE
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Article - Newsday 11-01-2011 - Comedy set for manufacturers' tech forum
National Grid is sponsoring a daylong forum Thursday on advanced composites manufacturing. But those planning to attend -- willingly or unwillingly -- should take heart. There will be a comedian, Joey Koehler, doing stand-up comedy during the lunch hour... MORE
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Article - Newsday 10-10-2011 - NY still 3rd in nation for tech jobs
TechAmerica Foundation, the research division of an industry trade group in Washington, found 294,702 New Yorkers held tech jobs in 2010. More than half were in two categories - computer systems design and related services or Internet and telecommunications services.
Besides having the most tech employment after California and Texas, New York also was third in the two kinds of tech positions: manufacturing and services... MORE
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Article - 09-30-2011 LIBN - Morrelly team collaborates on fire safety
The Nassau County Fire Service Academy in Old Bethpage has become a guinea pig for a coalition of companies at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in nearby Bethpage seeking to cash in big on creating the latest in firefighter training, safety equipment and technology.
The companies are turning the academy into a showcase to install their technology, hoping the facility will attract fire officials from other parts of the country interested in establishing a similar system... MORE
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Commentary - LIBN 09-28-2011 - Ones to watch in business growth strategies
... Frank W. Otto, President, Long Island Forum for Technology. Otto has oversight for Bethpage-based LIFT, which helps the region's 3,200 small and midsized manufacturers create and retain jobs, increase profits and improve competitiveness... MORE
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Article - Newsday 09-28-2011 - LIFT gets grant to help rail suppliers
Long Island has always talked about building industries in technology or biotech. But talk about a railroad industry is relatively new. Such talk got a boost earlier this week when the U.S. Small Business Administration approved a $200,546 grant to the Long Island Forum for Technology to help small companies compete to win contracts to supply train parts... MORE
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Article - LIBN 09-25-2011 - LIFT receives $200K SBA grant
A Long Island technology advocate was named as one of 11 organizations nationwide to be awarded a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Long Island Forum for Technology will receive $200,000 as part of the grant funding, which is being used for the training, counseling and mentoring of small businesses to enter into teaming relationships and compete for larger federal contracts... MORE
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Commentary - LIBN 09-15-2011 - Skelos: LI will thrive, thanks to technology
For decades, Long Island's economy was dependent on the aerospace industry until it crumbled and our economy recessed. Rather than bemoan the loss of jobs and people, many of us envisioned a stronger economy built on high-tech and biotech industries using Long Island's wealth of scientific and entrepreneurial talent. Now, Nassau and Suffolk counties are home to many growing companies and thousands of new jobs.... MORE
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Article - LIBN 09-09-2011 - LI companies emerge from 9/11
Local Leader Takes Charge:
With the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shortly after 9/11, there became a greater need for technology and equipment to service this new federal department.
Ken Morrelly, a veteran Long Island technology and manufacturing leader, recognized the need and sought to create a facility that could nuture the growth of such companies locally. As a result, the Applied Science Foundation for Homeland Security was established... MORE
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Article - Newsday 09-09-2011 - Emergency planning on the rise since 9/11
More planning, more collaboration, more innovation and more business. Those are some of the major changes that security professionals and business leaders on Long Island point to since that day 10 years ago when two planes hit the World Trade Center and rocked the country... MORE
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Press Release - 08-19-2011- Long Island Regional Economic Development Council to hold first public meeting
What: An effort to generate ideas about how to develop the strategic plan for long-term, sustainable, regional economic growth.
Who: All individuals, businesses, organizations, and university representatives from Nassau and Suffolk Counties are welcome to attend the open meeting.
Where: Mack Student Center, Hofstra University, 360 Hofstra University, Hempstead.
When: Tuesday August 23, 2011 **beginning at 4:00 pm the meeting will be open for public observation** MORE
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Article - Newsday 08-08-2011 - LI's Morrelly Center ships its first product
The first piece of technology to have been created at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage has been shipped out the door to the U.S. Homeland Security Department in Washington, D.C., marking the beginning of what Morrelly officials hope is the start of a new phase at the center: production... MORE
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Article - LIBN 07-27-2011 - Cuomo names regional eco dev council
Under Cuomo's initiative, 10 regional economic development councils have been created to develop plans to promote business and job creation in their area that are "sustainable, long term and utilize public-private partnerships."... MORE
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Article - LIBN 07-15-2011 - Life after Grumman
While many former Grumman Aerospace employees may yearn for the halcyon days of Long Island's manufacturing might, today our region is awash in successful manufacturing firms... MORE
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Article - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News - 06-2011 - A LIFT to homeland and port security
The story surrounding the creation of the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, NY, is not far afield from similar clusters of expertise around the world. Faced with the loss of traditional defense business on Long Island, the center is the result of government investment and the brainchild of a dedicated group of executives and corporations that collectively aspire to meld their accrued knowledge and experience with emerging technologies to create a new center of excellence, with an eye on the future technological needs across many markets... MORE
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Article - Newsday 05-23-2011 - Getting students into engineering
About a decade ago, Scott Schuler was on his third day of work at Hauppauge-based Festo Corp., a subsidiary of a German maker of factory and process automation products, when his boss, Hans Zobel, asked if he would like to help students at Hauppauge High School with some engineering projects... MORE
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Commentary - LIBN 05-06-2011 - Donnelly: Manufacturing's alive and well on LI
Mark Twain, when his obituary was wrongly published, famously said, "The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated." He might as well have been referring to the manufacturing sector on Long Island... MORE
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Article - Newsday 05-04-2011 - LI firms could cash in on security boost
Concerns that the death of Osama bin Laden could lead to retaliation by al-Qaida operatives in the United States are likely to prompt Congress to provide more money next year to the Department of Homeland Security, and therefore to facilities like the Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage... MORE
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Article - Newsday 04-28-2011 - Focus on market for blast-resistant camera
Bigwigs from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security came together with executives from a Canadian company and Long Island business people at the Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage earlier this week to usher in a new era in securing equipment to defend the country... MORE
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Article - Newsday 04-26-2011 - LI rollout of business matchmaker software
Brookhaven National Lab and the Long Island Forum for Technology have a word of advice for Long Island companies looking for new ideas and technologies: Merwyn... MORE
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Article - Newsday 04-15-2011 - Technology groups ink working agreement
At 12:05 p.m. Wednesday, a little bit of history was made on Long Island: two of the region's largest and oldest technology organizations -- the Long Island Forum for Technology and the
Long Island Software and Technology Network -- signed an agreement... MORE
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Article - Newsday 03-22-2011 - Gillibrand backs wireless rescuer network
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand came to the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage on Monday to urge support for federal legislation that would build a public-safety wireless data network for emergency first responders that would link different firefighting, ambulance and other type workers with one another... MORE
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Article - LIBN - 03-21-2011 - Gillibrand seeks joint emergency service network
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was at the Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage Monday, urging Congress to pass legislation to allocate 10 megahertz of bandwidth, known as the D-Block, for increased emergency services interoperability.
Known as the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Information Act, the legislation would create a framework for the deployment of a nationwide, interoperable, wireless broadband network completely devoted to public safety services, like fire, rescue and police... MORE
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Press Release - 03-21-2011 - Gillibrand stands with Long Island first responders to call for upgrade to emergency communications systems
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Article - Newsday 03-16-2011 - LI, Quebec execs nearing tech deal
The Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage and Quebec business leaders have been talking and visiting for months. Now an agreement between them is on the horizon that is expected to create Long Island jobs... MORE
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Article - LIBN 03-15-2011 - LIFT meets with Canadian tech firm
Canadian technology powerhouse INO made a special trip to Long Island Tuesday to meet with members of the Long Island Forum for Technology... MORE
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Article - Newsday 03-01-2011 - Ex-LIRR chief flies back to trains
Ken Bauer, former president of the Long Island Rail Road, has spent much of his time since he left in 2003 up in the air - flying to Europe and Asia as head of railroad companies doing business overseas. Now he will be back on the rails again... MORE
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Press Release - 02-23-2011 - Ken Bauer joins LIFT Board of Directors
The Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) announced today that Ken Bauer, former president of the LIRR and a 30 year veteran of the transportation industry has joined the LIFT Board of Directors and will serve as the Chair of the Long Island Rail Suppliers Alliance (LIRSA)... MORE
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Press Release - 02-07-2011 - LIFT receives national award for impact on Long Island's work force
The Bethpage-based technology organization, Long Island
Forum for Technology (LIFT), was one of two nationwide recipients of the Lawton Business Leadership Award, presented by The National Association of Workforce Boards... MORE
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Article - Newsday 02-02-2011 Jobs top list for LI group visiting Quebec City
Ray Donnelly of the Long Island Forum for Technology leads a group of four companies affiliated with the Bethpage-based Morrelly Homeland Security Center to Quebec City this week. He and the businesses hope the trip will bring contracts and jobs to Nassau and Suffolk... MORE
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Article - Newsday 01-24-2011 - Mixing LI business and high tech to create growth
The idea, Frank Otto said, was to get "everyone" together.
In this case, "everyone" meant the scientists at Stony Brook University and top executives of Long Island technology and defense companies. The plan was to throw them all together for a day and see what would come out... MORE
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Article - LIBN 01-13-2011 - Students permanently impact the Intrepid
Last month, an interdisciplinary team of 11 students from New York Institute of Technology won a design contest to create an energy-efficient hangar for the U.S.S. Intrepid... MORE
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Article - LIBN 01-03-2011 - LIFT to receive national award
The National Association of Workforce Boards has announced that Bethpage-based Long Island Forum for Technology will be one of two recipients nationwide of its Lawton Business Leadership Award... MORE
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Article - LIBN 12-17-2010 - Int'l firms show strong interest in LI
The flailing U.S. economy has had a devastating impact on businesses nationally. Yet, like many storms, this deluge comes with a silver lining... MORE
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Article - Newsday 12-13-2010 - Chilean tech execs shown LI possibilities
On Thursday, LIFT invited Martinez and executives of two Chilean companies -- Surikat, a medical-device maker, and Wiseconn, an information-technology firm -- to the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage. The agenda was to see whether the Chilean companies want to locate on Long Island... MORE
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Article - Newsday 11-30-2010 - German company eyes project at Heartland
In January, a German company will begin contract manufacturing at the Heartland Industrial Park in Edgewood, building products used in the renewable energy industry. Initially, it will be hiring 30 people, and as many as 100 in a year or so... MORE
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Article - LIBN 11-19-2010 - Murcott: Focus on early-years education
The school year is well underway and business leaders across Long Island, including me, ask ourselves if our children's education is developing the 21st century skills our businesses need to address the Island's significant challenges to future economic growth... MORE
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Article - Newsday 11-18-2010 - LI execs meet with LaHood on future rail projects
Some Long Island business executives are working harder on the railroad these days. They are actually trying to secure work for their companies on any future high-speed rail system built in the United States. On Monday night a new group calling itself the Long Island Rail Suppliers Alliance met at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to discuss high-speed rail systems and work for Long Island companies... MORE
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Article - Newsday 11-12-2010 - Morrelly Security Center marks progress in Bethpage
Tom Ridge was handed two bottles of Cutchogue-based Palmer Vineyard wine - one red and one white - as part of his official welcome Friday morning to the new Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage.... MORE
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Article - LIBN 11-05-2010 - Morrelly Center reaches northward
While most homeland security technology firms aid the U.S. government, one Bethpage amalgamation has an international focus... MORE
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Article - LIBN 10-04-2010 - Morrelly Center helps vets find jobs
More than 250 veterans came out to the Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage on Monday eager to find employment with one of 70 companies or organizations in attendance for the Welcome Back Warriors job fair... MORE
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Article - Newsday 09-30-2010 - Security center sets job fair to help war vets
Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are returning home these days to face another enemy - high unemployment. The Morrelly Center for Homeland Security in Bethpage plans to join the battle against joblessness, hosting a "Welcome Back Warriors" job fair on Monday... MORE
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Article - LIBN 09-02-2010 - Rail suppliers hope to cash in
After the recent distribution of $151 million to New York for the implementation of high-speed rail projects upstate, Long Island rail suppliers are hoping they won't miss future money trains. Roughly 30 local railroad equipment supply companies have joined together to give Long Island visibility as a viable manufacturing powerhouse... MORE
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Article - Newsday 08-13-2010 - Alliance is working on a railroad industry
In June, Island business executives traveled to Albany for a daylong conference sponsored by the state Department of Transportation and the Empire State Development Corp. to
discuss creating a railroad supply industry in the state... MORE
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Article - Newsday 08-03-2010 - Gillibrand sponsors high-tech showcase
Some of Long Island's largest and most powerful business and technology organizations will join others from across the state in Washington, D.C., today in hopes of securing some business from the federal government.
Officials of the Long Island Forum for Technology, the Morrelly Homeland Security Center, Brookhaven National Lab, the Advanced Energy Systems at the State University at Stony Brook, and Cold Spring Harbor Labs will take part in the second-annual High-Tech Innovation Showcase, sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)... MORE
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Article - LIBN 08-05-2010 - LI firms strut their stuff at high-tech showcase
Hunting government contracts and displaying some of the highest tech in the land, Long Island's most forward-thinking organizations converged on Washington Wednesday for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's second annual High-Tech Innovation Showcase... MORE
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Article - LIBN 11-12-2010 Morrelly Center formally commissioned
The Morrelly Homeland Security Center brought out the big guns for its official commissioning Friday morning... MORE
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Article - Newsday 07-30-2010 - Otto named president of Long Island Forum for Technology
There are not many positions in Long Island's aerospace and defense industries that Frank Otto has not held. He was a vice president for years at the old Edo Corp., now a part of ITT Corp. More recently, Otto was a top executive at Comtech Telecommunications Corp. of Melville. Now, he has a new hat: president of the Long Island Forum for Technology, a 30-year-old organization that includes many of the Island's largest defense contractors as members... MORE
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Article - Newsday 01-29-2010 - Comtech exec leaving for post at nonprofit
Melville-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp., a maker of advanced communications devices, said its senior vice president of operations is retiring to accept a new job working with a Long Island nonprofit... MORE
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Article - Newsday 07-08-2010 - Israel eyes federal money to aid first responders
Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) wants to bring $1 million in federal money to Long Island to help in the development of technologies that would aid first responders to disasters. He announced his push at a news conference Thursday at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage... MORE
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Article - LIBN 07-07-2010 - Morrelly center scores federal funds
Congressman Steve Israel, D-Huntington, is scheduled to visit the Long Island Forum for Technology's Bethpage campus Thursday morning to announce a $1 million stipend for the creation and marketing of Homeland Security products... MORE
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Article - LIBN 04-29-2010 - Cyber warfare official tours Morrelly Center
Rosemary Wenchel, the cyber, information operations and strategic studies director at office of the Secretary of Defense, visited the Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage on Thursday to
discuss how the government and private sector can work together to fight cyber warfare... MORE
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Article - LIBN 03-08-2010 - Homeland security center opens
The same building in which scientists and engineers in the 1960s created and built the lunar module that carried men to the moon and back has been converted into a center for homeland security. And in a crisis, the new building for the development of homeland security technology can be used as a command post for first responders, both on Long Island and throughout the region... MORE
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Article - Newsday 03-05-2010 - Homeland security center opens in Bethpage
A Bethpage building where scientists built the spacecraft that carried men to the moon is becoming a hub for the development of homeland security technology. Business leaders, politicians and others attended a dedication ceremony Friday for the Morrelly Homeland Security Center... MORE
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Article - LIBN 03-02-2010 - Homeland security campus to be renamed
The Applied Science Center of Innovation and Excellence in Homeland Security will be posthumously renamed after Ken Morrelly, the former president of the Long Island Forum For Technology. Morrelly, who died of a heart attack in October, was the driving force behind the center, which is designed to provide local government and first responders with a facility to accelerate local innovation and serve as a control center during a regional crisis... MORE
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Article - Newsday 02-15-2010 - Small tech companies to occupy old Grumman plant
Strange as it may sound, Leroy Grumman has an office - sort of - in the spanking new, yet-to-be-fully-opened homeland security building in Bethpage, in Grumman's old Plant 5. What's strange is that Grumman, the founder of the former Grumman Corp., died in 1982 at age 87. Yet, there is a small space on the third floor of the facility - officially known as the Applied Science Center of Innovation and Excellence in Homeland Security, which is to open later this month - that was once used by the man known far and wide as Mr. Grumman... MORE
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Article - LIBN 01-29-2010 - LIFT names Otto president
The Long Island Forum for Technology or LIFT and its sister project the Applied Science Center of Innovation and Excellence in Homeland Security have named former defense industry executive Frank Otto as their new president... MORE
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Article - Newsday 01-29-2010 - LIFT names Otto president
There are not many positions in Long Island's aerospace and defense industries that Frank Otto has not held. He was a vice president for years at the old Edo Corp., now a part of ITT Corp. More recently, Otto was a top executive at Comtech Telecommunications Corp. of Melville. Now, he has a new hat: president of the Long Island Forum for Technology, a 30-year-old organization that includes many of the Island's largest defense contractors as members... MORE
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