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AidKit Wins Gold and “Best of Category” for GovTech Innovation at 2026 Globee Awards for Technology

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AidKit is recognized for its AI-powered infrastructure that is helping government agencies and nonprofits deliver aid faster, securely and with stronger accountability

DENVER, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AidKit, a Certified B Corp that helps government agencies and nonprofits deliver fast, fair and effective aid and relief programs, today announced it has been named a Gold winner and “Best of Category” honoree in the Achievement in GovTech or Public Sector Innovation category at the 2026 Globee® Awards for Technology.

AidKit was recognized for its configurable public benefits infrastructure, which is helping public agencies and nonprofits modernize aid delivery, reduce administrative burden, strengthen fraud prevention and deliver benefits with greater speed, transparency and trust.

“We’re honored to be recognized by the Globee Awards for the work AidKit is doing to help public agencies deliver aid in ways that are faster, more resilient and more responsive to community needs,” said Brittany Christenson, CEO of AidKit. “Government and nonprofit leaders are being asked to do more with less while navigating growing complexity, rising expectations and real urgency on behalf of the people they serve. Our goal is to give them infrastructure that not only improves operational efficiency, but also helps preserve fairness, accountability and dignity throughout the aid experience.”

AidKit’s technology platform brings together eligibility, enrollment, identity verification, fraud mitigation, payments and compliance into a single system. It enables agencies to replace fragmented manual workflows and legacy tools with a more efficient, transparent model for administration. Since its founding in 2021, AidKit has supported more than 240 government agencies and nonprofit partners and helped distribute more than $450 million in aid.

AidKit’s innovation centers on the responsible use of artificial intelligence inside public systems. Rather than replacing human judgment, AidKit uses AI-enhanced identity verification, biometric matching, geospatial analysis and workflow automation to accelerate document review, flag inconsistencies and help staff manage complex caseloads. Final eligibility determinations remain with trained human reviewers, helping agencies increase efficiency while maintaining transparency, oversight and public trust.

The Globee® recognition highlights AidKit’s real-world impact across high-stakes public sector programs, including:

Los Angeles Regional Wildfire Relief Programs: After the January 2025 wildfires, AidKit helped LA County and the City of Los Angeles launch worker and small business relief programs in under two weeks. AI-enhanced identity verification and geospatial dashboards streamlined eligibility review, supported applicants who lost documentation and helped county leaders scale the fund from $2 million to more than $20 million.Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan: AidKit provides technology to support Rx Kids, Michigan State University’s maternal and infant cash prescription program administered by GiveDirectly that provides prenatal and first-year cash support to families. In its first year, the program reached more than 1,400 Flint families with nearly 100% uptake among new mothers, using AidKit’s mobile-first, multilingual platform to support enrollment, payments and compliance.

AidKit was also named Best of Category in Achievement in GovTech or Public Sector Innovation, an honor awarded to the highest-scoring entry in its category. The distinction reflects the top-ranked submission among all entries evaluated in that category through the Globee Awards’ data-driven judging process conducted by experienced professionals worldwide.

“Congratulations to the 2026 winners for their technology achievements across industries and markets worldwide,” said San Madan, President of the Globee Awards. “These accomplishments reflect innovation, measurable impact and a commitment to advancing technology-driven progress.”

AidKit’s latest Globee honor builds on other recent recognitions for the company. Over the past year, AidKit earned a 2025 Globee® Award for Impact for its responsible use of AI, achieved Certified B Corporation status, appointed former FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell to its board, and was named to Inc.’s 2026 Best Workplaces list. Together, those milestones reflect AidKit’s leadership in responsible AI, public-sector innovation and mission-driven company building.

The Globee® Awards for Technology recognize achievements in technology innovation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, enterprise modernization, operational excellence, customer impact and measurable organizational progress. View the complete list of winners here: https://globeeawards.com/technology/winners/

About AidKit
AidKit is the infrastructure behind many of the nation’s most effective aid and relief programs, helping even the leanest governments and nonprofit teams deliver aid and benefits in days, not months. Designed to meet the complex demands of large-scale aid and public benefits distribution, AidKit’s all-in-one technology platform streamlines workflows, accelerates disbursements and reduces administrative burden, adapting to each community’s needs rather than requiring communities to adapt to the platform. With integrated fraud mitigation, compliance tracking and real-time caseload management tools, AidKit ensures programs operate with precision, accountability and data security. Drawing on a proven record of successful implementations, AidKit expands operational capacity and elevates service delivery for its partners, delivering results that maximize impact and build public trust across programs ranging from disaster relief to public benefits modernization. Active in 27 states, AidKit has served 240+ government and nonprofit partners and distributed over $450 million in aid. Founded in 2021, AidKit is a Certified B Corporation and a Public Benefit Corporation. For more information, visit https://www.aidkit.com/.

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Gabriel Marketing Group (for AidKit)
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Email: michaelt@gabrielmarketing.com

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PIZZA HUT INTRODUCES NEW THROWBACK VALUE MENU TO CELEBRATE ITS MOST ICONIC MENU ITEMS

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New Throwback Value Menu Features the Hut Originals You Know and Love along with First-Time Offerings of Triple Cheese Mac and S’mores Sticks Dinner Service NY Streetwear Collaboration and “Back to the Hut” Bring to Life Fan-Favorite Brand Icons in Wearable Collection and Nostalgic Experience

PLANO, Texas, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As part of Pizza Hut’s Hut Originals platform, the brand is giving fans another reason to revisit their favorites with the debut of the new Throwback Value Menu*. Available starting today for a limited time, the menu brings together iconic Pizza Hut classics and new additions, all at a great value. Pizza Hut is also celebrating the fans who made the brand iconic through a Dinner Service NY Streetwear Collection and Back to the Hut Experience.

Throwback Value Menu
The Throwback Value Menu makes it easy for fans to build their own Pizza Hut buffet with items starting at just $3. Offerings** include a $10 Medium 1-Topping Stuffed Crust Pizza, $3 Personal Pan Pizza (1-Topping), $4 Breadsticks, $4 Cinnamon Sticks, $3 Pepsi 2-Liter, and two new menu items making their debut: $6 NEW Triple Cheese Mac and $5 NEW S’mores Sticks.

Dinner Service NY Streetwear Collection
To bring Hut Originals to life beyond the menu, Pizza Hut is teaming up with Dinner Service NY, a brand known for transforming restaurant workwear into coveted streetwear. Rooted in Pizza Hut’s rich restaurant heritage, the collaboration transforms iconic Pizza Hut uniforms, BOOK IT! nostalgia and fan-favorite memories into a limited-edition collection of button-down shirts, camo jackets, T-shirts, sweaters, rugby shirts, hats, totes and socks. The collection gives fans a new way to celebrate and wear their love for the brand. The collection will be live for shopping at 12 p.m. CST on July 16 at www.dinnerserviceny.com. And fans who join Hut Rewards*** can unlock exclusive early access to purchase the collection at 10 a.m. CST.

Back to the Hut Experience
Throughout the summer, Pizza Hut is inviting fans to prove they are true Hut Originals through the new “Back to the Hut” digital experience in the Hut Rewards app. Members can test their Pizza Hut knowledge through in-app trivia and challenges to unlock rewards, collectibles and exclusive experiences.

“Some of Pizza Hut’s most iconic menu items have stood the test of time because fans never stopped loving them,” said Melissa Friebe, Chief Marketing Officer for Pizza Hut. “With the Throwback Value Menu, we’re bringing those favorites together at great value and pairing them with experiences that Feed Good Times and celebrate everything people love about Pizza Hut. From our collaboration with Dinner Service NY to the Back to the Hut experience, we’re continuing to champion what makes Pizza Hut truly iconic.”

The Throwback Value Menu is available for a limited time at participating Pizza Hut locations nationwide this summer. Because while trends come and go, some things never stop being iconic.

*The Throwback Value Menu is available for Carryout, Delivery and Dine-In at participating Pizza Hut locations nationwide. Not available on aggregator platforms. Pricing may vary at participating locations.

** Exclusions apply. Medium Stuffed Crust and Personal Pan Pizza include 1 topping. Additional charge for extra toppings, extra cheese & recipe pizza upgrade (recipes available on stuffed crust only). Product availability, combinability of discounts & specials, prices & participation may vary. Taxes, tip & delivery fees not included.

*** Hut  Rewards is open to US residents 18+ who have registered for the program. For full Hut Rewards Terms & Conditions, with details, restrictions, & limitations, visit pizzahut.com/hutrewards.

About Pizza Hut® 
Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, and is a global leader in the pizza category with nearly 20,000 restaurants in more than 110 markets and territories. The brand has earned a reputation as a trailblazer in innovation with the creation of icons like Original Pan® and Original Stuffed Crust® pizzas. In 1994, Pizza Hut pizza was the very first online food order, and today Pizza Hut continues leading the way in the digital and technology space with over half of transactions worldwide coming from digital orders. In addition, Pizza Hut has Hut Rewards®, the brand’s loyalty program in the U.S. that offers points for every dollar spent on food any way you order. Leveraging its global presence, Pizza Hut also works to positively impact restaurant employees, the communities they serve and the environment through commitments across three priority areas: More Equity, Less Carbon and Better Packaging.

About Dinner Service NY
Dinner Service is a culture-forward apparel brand built on collaboration. They create garments that commemorate moments that matter. A service to memory. Since its founding, the brand has partnered with musicians, restaurants, hotels, artists and other culture shapers to create limited-run pieces built to be lived in. Past collaborators include Figma, C as in Charlie, Pink’s, Las Vegas, Hamilton and L’Ermitage. Every release operates on the same principle: it happens once. Dinner Service is based in New York.  

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LightBox launches LightBox Property, creating a single asset record for commercial real estate

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For the first time, owners, lenders, investors, and brokers can access a single asset-level record, replacing the manual work of piecing property data together deal by deal

NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LightBox, the leading provider of commercial real estate data, analytics, and workflow solutions, today announced the launch of LightBox Property, a new LightBox Data product that creates one record for every commercial real estate asset.

A commercial real estate asset is often more complex than a single parcel. An industrial campus, for example, is bought and financed as one property but lives in the data as several separate parcel records. In other cases, a single parcel record may contain multiple structures, addresses, tenants, or uses. For years, professionals across the industry closed that gap by hand, one deal at a time. That work doesn’t scale. As lenders track risk across whole loan books and investors compare thousands of properties at once, assembling the asset by hand stops working.

LightBox Property gives the entire market one place to start. Corporations, owners, investors, lenders, brokers, appraisers, developers, and environmental professionals all work from the same asset, with parcels, structures, ownership, boundaries, transactions, and history connected beneath it. From that record, customers can reach the full breadth of LightBox data or use the LightBox geocoder to organize their own data into the same property model. The work of defining a property happens once, at the asset level, instead of over and over in every workflow built on top of it.

“Everyone in this industry makes decisions about assets, but the data underneath them was never organized that way,” said Eric Frank, Founder and CEO of LightBox. “A lender underwriting a property can now pull it as one collateral record, whether that asset spans multiple parcels, includes multiple structures, or represents only part of a parcel. That is a change in how the whole market works, and it is only the beginning of what a single asset record makes possible.”

LightBox already sits beneath commercial real estate, connecting the parcel, structure, ownership, transaction, environmental, and location data the industry runs on, resolved through the LightBox ID. Through sustained investment in its unique data assets, LightBox has built one connected system for property intelligence, and the asset record is the natural consequence of that work. It is a record only LightBox can build.

While the industry’s data resolves to the parcel, its decisions resolve to the asset. LightBox Property connects them.

“The real value of LightBox Property is that it gives customers a way to connect the property data they already have to a record they can actually use,” said Caroline Stoll, General Manager, Data & Analytics at LightBox. “Most organizations are working with messy inputs across portfolios, systems, and third-party sources. With the LightBox geocoder and LightBox ID, those inputs can be resolved to a single asset, enriched with LightBox data, and connected back to their own workflows. That is what makes portfolio analytics, automation, and AI practical at scale.”

LightBox Property continues a series of 2026 releases focused on CRE portfolio intelligence, following City Directories and Corporate Owner, each one moving the market toward a single, connected view of property.

The first release covers approximately 8.5 million curated properties nationwide and is available through the LightBox API and in LightBox Live.

To learn more or request access, visit www.lightboxre.com/data.

About LightBox
LightBox is the Decision Foundation for the Built World. For more than 30 years, it has helped commercial real estate professionals work from a clearer, more consistent view of property in a market long slowed by fragmented information. LightBox creates a connected property record that helps organizations move faster, reduce risk, and make better-informed decisions across real estate workflows. It gives organizations clarity they can stand on.

Visit us at www.LightBoxRE.com.
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Iridium Announces Commercial Availability of Iridium PNT ASIC, Bringing Resilient GNSS Protection to Devices Worldwide

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Ultra-compact chip delivers trusted positioning, navigation, and timing resilience amid rising spoofing and jamming threats

MCLEAN, Va., July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM), a leading provider of global voice, data, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, today announced the commercial availability of the Iridium PNT ASIC, a first-to-market chip designed to help protect GPS- and GNSS-dependent devices from jamming, spoofing, and other growing threats.

Since the Iridium PNT ASIC’s unveiling in October 2025, Iridium has received unprecedented demand from more than 150 organizations worldwide, spanning maritime, unmanned and autonomous systems (UXV), aviation, telecommunications, and other critical infrastructure sectors.

“The market response to the Iridium PNT ASIC has reinforced what we’re hearing from customers around the world: assured PNT is becoming an essential capability across critical industries,” said Dr. Michael O’Connor, executive vice president, PNT, Iridium. “With commercial availability, we’re enabling manufacturers to integrate trusted timing and location capabilities into smaller, more efficient designs, making assured PNT accessible to more applications than ever before.”

Measuring just 8 by 8 millimeters and weighing less than 0.2 grams, the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) represents a major step forward in expanding access to assured PNT technologies at scale. The chip delivers cryptographically secure timing and location data from the Iridium satellite network through one-way signal bursts that are powerful enough to work where traditional GNSS often cannot, including inside structures and in contested environments.

By continuously validating signal integrity and delivering trusted PNT data anywhere on Earth, the Iridium PNT ASIC provides a powerful new foundation not only for resilient navigation, but also timing. Financial markets, telecommunications networks, power grids, and governments all depend on precise time synchronization to coordinate operations and maintain reliable service.

As global reliance on GNSS continues to grow, so does the frequency and sophistication of signal interference such as jamming and spoofing. Recent incidents including the May 2026 in-flight jamming of United Kingdom Defence Secretary John Healey highlight increasing operational and safety risks associated with GNSS spoofing and jamming across commercial transportation, aviation, and critical infrastructure environments. According to a 2019 study sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a GPS outage was estimated to cost the U.S. economy approximately $1 billion per day. Adjusted for inflation, that figure would exceed $1.3 billion per day in 2026, underscoring the growing importance of reliable backup solutions.

Compact Assured PNT Integration Underway

Solace Communications, a provider of mission-critical communications solutions for demanding and remote environments, is one of several Iridium partners integrating the Iridium PNT ASIC. Its Vector family of assured PNT products combines Iridium PNT with multi-band GNSS and inertial sensing to deliver resilient positioning, navigation, and timing with continuous confidence scoring, while LTE and Iridium Short Burst Data® (SBD®) provide secure telemetry and messaging.

“The Iridium PNT ASIC supports our wider strategy of building one of the first edge-native, confidence-scored assured PNT platforms around multiple sources of positioning, timing, and motion data,” said Adam Elcock, co-founder, Solace Communications. “Future navigation systems must do more than report a position. They must continuously determine whether that position and its timing can be trusted. That is the role Vector has been designed to fulfill and is now being deployed.”

Skyband Systems, a developer of aviation-grade, PNT-resilient navigation hardware, will integrate the Iridium PNT ASIC into its M100 LRU for business and commercial aviation. The M100 combines Iridium PNT with onboard inertial sensing to alert crews to GNSS jamming and spoofing while providing aircraft location for enhanced situational awareness.

“Iridium’s secure and powerful global service is the perfect platform for Skyband’s resilient navigation product,” said Robert Wiggenhorn, co-founder, Skyband Systems. “We are excited to partner with Iridium as they launch the Iridium PNT ASIC and look forward to further strengthening their legacy of aircraft innovation and safety.”

Iridium continues to engage with developers, original equipment manufacturers, integrators, and technology providers to incorporate assured PNT capabilities into next-generation solutions. Those interested in ordering the Iridium PNT ASIC are encouraged to visit www.iridium.com/pnt/asic.

About Iridium Communications Inc.
Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) operates the world’s only truly global mobile satellite network. It serves as a platform for innovation, enabling voice, data, and messaging, positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), and aircraft surveillance services anywhere on Earth. Through its satellite constellation and integrated capabilities like Aireon, the world’s only space-based air traffic surveillance system, Iridium delivers services that support safety-focused operations across aviation, maritime, government, industrial, and consumer markets. The company is a leader in satellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and is advancing direct-to-device (D2D) communications based on open standards to expand access to satellite services.

Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Iridium innovates through an ecosystem of more than 500 technology and distribution partners, serving millions of customers worldwide. For more information visit www.iridium.com.

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Iridium Communications Inc.
Jordan.Hassin@Iridium.com
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Iridium Communications Inc.
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+1 (703) 287-7570

 

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