Symetrics Industries, LLC announced today an award from the U.S. Army for approximately 300 Improved Data Modems (IDM) for installation on Army aircraft. The contract value will be between $7 and $8 million, once final negotiations are completed. The IDM-304 is the Army version of the Improved Data Modems that Symetrics has been delivering to the U.S. Air Force for over 14 years.

Four climate control products developed by Emerson Climate Technologies, a business of Emerson, recently received 2007 Dealer Design Awards from an independent panel of heating, air conditioning and refrigeration contractors convened by the industry’s leading news publication, the Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News.

Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that it has won an enterprise-level CRM Elite Award from CRM magazine’s 2007 Market Awards program.

Honda Foundation Announces Honda Prize 2007 Goes to French Private Surgeon Dr. Philippe Mouret, the Performer of the World-First Practical Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Who Marked the Beginning of Rapid Spread of Endoscopic Surgery and Its Related Technologic Innovations in Modern Medicine

Decru, a NetApp company, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, a Silicon Valley communications publication dedicated to security-related products and technologies, has named the Decru DataFort® security appliance platform a winner of the 2007 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award in the storage security category.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that its hydrogen-free diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating has won the Excellence Award in the Products and Technology Development Category of the second Monozukuri Nippon Grand Awards from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The awards ceremony will take place on August 29 at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo.

AT&T has announced that, for the fourth consecutive year, college football fans have the chance to vote for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week, a national honor determined solely by fans.

Tyrone McElveen, M.D., of the Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. has been given the Region 8 Physician of the Year award for 2007, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today.

Platinum Studios Inc. and AT&T Inc. announced today the winner of Platinum Studios' 2007 Comic Book Challenge presented by AT&T and distributed on AT&T's three screens, with support from the AT&T Universal Card.

For the fourth year, Pontiac and NCAA® Football are challenging fans nationwide to support their teams. With $300,000 in general scholarship contributions on the line, spectators can “get in the game” by voting on the “Pontiac Game Changing Performance,” the first and only fan-voted scholarship program.

Two individuals have been honored with Senior Citizen of the Year awards from the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging (OSA), the Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging (CSA), and the Michigan State Fair.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Nortel Government Solutions, a U.S. company wholly owned by Nortel, an estimated US$39 million contract to substantially increase program management support for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).