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ReDEFY Launches “Built Before the Meeting:” California’s Environmental Health Agencies Get a Working Salesforce Solution Ahead of the CERS NextGen Deadline

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At Dreamforce 2026, ReDEFY, a Salesforce consulting partner, arrives having already built Environmental Health solutions for California county governments ahead of the state’s CERS NextGen deadline.

HERNDON, Va., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — With Dreamforce 2026 opening next week in San Francisco, ReDEFY, a pure-play Salesforce consulting partner, launched “Built Before the Meeting,” a campaign that reverses the traditional consulting sales cycle. Instead of asking prospects to sit through discovery calls and slide decks, ReDEFY builds a working Salesforce Industry Cloud solution for a buyer’s specific vertical problem before the first meeting takes place.

The first public proof of the model is live now at redefy.com. ReDEFY has built a Salesforce destination for California’s Certified Unified Program Agencies ahead of the state’s CERS NextGen transition. CalEPA is retiring the legacy California Environmental Reporting System and moving its 81 Certified Unified Program Agencies to a modernized platform, with full go-live planned for January 2027 and new mandatory due dates and reporting requirements arriving alongside it. Rather than pitch that work, ReDEFY has already built it. Any agency facing the deadline can see their working solution at the first meeting, before any conversation about commitment. While the solution can be demonstrated, this is not a demo. It is publicly available regulations, county documentation, public forms, and ReDEFY’s experience translated into a working Environmental Health platform, built for one specific county at a time. Only then does ReDEFY reach out to the county for a meeting.

“Most partners hold their best thinking hostage and only invest their time once a client has signed a contract. We do the opposite,” said Manosh Chakravorty, Co-Founder and CEO of ReDEFY. “When a buyer has a real deadline and clear, detailed requirements, we build the destination first and then ask for the meeting. Our proof beats others’ promises, our investment shows our commitment, and Built Before respects the customer’s time.”

The Built Before model is designed for growing and mid-market commercial organizations that need to move quickly. But in the public sector, where much of the regulation, the processes, and the current engagement model are already public, the campaign is easiest to prove. When a prospect has clear and detailed requirements, ReDEFY builds the full solution up front and rolls it directly into delivery as a free project accelerator once professional services are under contract, so the pre-meeting build is never wasted effort but a head start on go-live. Ahead of Dreamforce 2026, ReDEFY has already completed working builds for six large California counties.

“Building a working solution before the first meeting is only possible with a delivery method engineered for both speed and accuracy,” said Karthik Akula, Co-Founder and CTO of ReDEFY. “We validate the outcome in a pre-production environment before we ever present it. What a buyer sees is not a mockup or a standard demo. It is their solution, running on Salesforce, ready to refine and deploy.”

At Dreamforce, as part of its first-year sponsorship, ReDEFY will host private build sessions showing executive teams how its delivery engines produce configuration-first Salesforce Industry Cloud solutions at scale. In California, the firm is taking those same builds directly to the counties they were made for.

“We are not showing California’s counties the art of the possible,” said Chakravorty. “We are showing each one a solution purpose-built for their jurisdiction, before we ask for a meeting.”

“Each of the six builds is specific to that county’s programs and data, not a template with a new name on it,” said Akula. “Delivering that much specificity before a contract is only possible because every configuration decision is validated and traceable from day one.”

Every “Built Before the Meeting” solution is configuration-first and native to Salesforce, not hard-coded on top of it. That is a deliberate and critical difference. Much of today’s AI-assisted code generation forks a customer off Salesforce’s innovation path and its three releases a year, creating technical debt the moment it ships. ReDEFY uses AI to accelerate configuration-first delivery that stays on the platform, so each Salesforce release moves the solution forward rather than breaking it.

Organizations carrying a near-term Salesforce decision can meet the ReDEFY team at Dreamforce 2026, September 15 to 17 in San Francisco. To schedule a briefing, see the media contact below. The California Environmental Health build can be viewed now at redefy.com/industries/public-sector/california-environmental-health.

Before founding ReDEFY, Chakravorty and Akula built an award-winning Salesforce practice and exited it to a global systems integrator. They launched ReDEFY in 2026 with a team of senior Salesforce consultants to prove a simple thesis: Salesforce is not expensive, the legacy consulting model around it is.

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Organizations carrying a near-term Salesforce decision can meet the ReDEFY team at Dreamforce 2026, September 15 to 17 in San Francisco. To schedule a briefing, see the media contact below. The California Environmental Health build can be viewed now at redefy.com/industries/public-sector/california-environmental-health.

About ReDEFY

ReDEFY is a pure-play Salesforce consulting partner headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, with senior consultants across the United States and India. Co-founded by Manosh Chakravorty and Karthik Akula, the firm helps growing and mid-market organizations implement, migrate, and manage Salesforce through a proof-before-pitch delivery model. Learn more at redefy.com.

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Leidos to keep 650,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel securely connected worldwide

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Department of Navy awards $875 million for second option year on contract to secure and maintain critical networks worldwide

RESTON, Va., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will continue helping keep more than 650,000 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel securely connected by managing more than 425,000 devices at more than 2,500 sites around the world.

The Navy recently awarded Leidos $875 million for the second option year of the Next Generation Enterprise Network Service Management, Integration and Transport contract. The company is responsible for all aspects of user support, operations and IT transformational activities on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), Outside the Continental United States Navy Enterprise Network (ONE-Net) and Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN).

“Military and civilian personnel rely on these networks to communicate, make decisions and carry out missions that protect our nation and its allies,” said Steve Hull, president of Leidos Digital. “We’re supporting the technology they depend on so it remains secure, resilient and ready when they need it.”

Since being awarded the contract in 2020, Leidos has helped the Navy and Marine Corps modernize their IT environments while improving network resilience. The company has introduced automation that delivers patches to network devices 93% faster and accelerates patching across the enterprise by 94%, addressing vulnerabilities sooner and reducing potential disruptions for personnel who rely on these networks.

“During my time in the Navy, I learned that when technology works seamlessly in the background, you’re free to give the mission your full attention. These results reflect our team’s 24/7 dedication to making that possible,” said DJ LeGoff, a retired Navy captain and the Navy and Marine Corps portfolio leader at Leidos.

This award supports Leidos’ NorthStar 2030 strategy and its focus on digital modernization, cyber capabilities and mission software.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 50,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.  

Certain statements in this announcement constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These statements are based on management’s current beliefs and expectations and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future results or occurrences. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the “Risk Factors” set forth in Leidos’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Leidos does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.

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Elizabeth Torres
(571) 732-6875
Elizabeth.torres-3@leidos.com

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Columbus McKinnon to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Columbus McKinnon Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCO) (“CMCO” or the “Company”), today announced that it will present at the Sidoti Small Cap Virtual Conference on September 23, 2026 at approximately 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Representatives from the Company will also attend the D.A. Davidson 25th Annual Diversified Industrials & Services Conference in on September 24, 2026 and the Deutsche Bank 34th Annual Leveraged Finance Conference on September 30, 2026.

The live audio webcast of the Sidoti conference will be available via the Columbus McKinnon Investor Relations webpage at investors.cmco.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Company’s Investor Relations page shortly following the respective presentations through October 7, 2026.

About Columbus McKinnon Corporation
CMCO is a global leader in intelligent motion solutions designed to advance performance and productivity, helping customers move the world forward with confidence. Guided by its mission to deliver innovative solutions with unmatched safety, quality and reliability, CMCO enables efficient lifting, positioning, securing and movement of materials across a wide range of end markets. Its portfolio spans five key platforms: lifting hardware consumables, hoists and cranes, precision conveyance, automation and linear motion. Driven by a vision for a safer, more productive tomorrow, CMCO partners with customers to solve some of their most complex intralogistics challenges and keep industry in motion. Comprehensive information is available at www.cmco.com.

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Alexandre Eldredge
Investor.Relations@cmco.com

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VPN.com CEO Warns AI Cybersecurity Costs Could Reach $3 Trillion As Domains Become Brand Security Assets

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ATLANTA and WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — VPN.com CEO and expert premium domain broker Michael Gargiulo is highlighting a growing reality for executives, cybersecurity leaders, and global brands: artificial intelligence is changing the cost, speed, and scope of digital defense.

“AI has changed the economics of cybersecurity,” said Michael Gargiulo, CEO of VPN.com, a category leading company in cybersecurity, Internet brand security, and domain name technology. “Companies are not only defending networks anymore. They are defending devices, endpoints, agents, browsers, domains, Internet Protocol space, and the trust customers place in their brand identity. Any estimate that leaves out depreciating assets, planned upgrades, global domain protection, and brand access points is likely too low.”

On a recent earnings call Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said “there’s approximately $1 trillion of global cybersecurity debt that must be modernized to defend against automated threats because they operate instantaneously.”

Gargiulo believes the real number may be significantly higher, potentially as much as three times larger than some current estimates, once companies account for global endpoint growth, aging hardware, cloud expansion, artificial intelligence agents, domain name protection, AI-expanded surfaces, and future infrastructure refresh cycles.

With the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) preparing for new generic top-level domain activations, making more multilingual internet addresses possible, VPN.com believes brand protection will become a larger part of cybersecurity planning.

“Your domain name is no longer just where your website lives,” said Michael Gargiulo. “It is a brand access point. It is part of your customer trust layer. It is part of your security perimeter. In the AI era, cyber location is brand security.”

VPN.com says companies must review more than firewalls, laptops, and cloud accounts. They should examine exposed devices, browser access, employee endpoints, vendor portals, application programming interfaces, domain portfolios, country-code top-level domains, lookalike domains, internationalized domains, and premium cyber location domains that could influence trust or confusion in the market.

The company, which became a category leading expert organization in cybersecurity and internet domain name security, also warns that AI-powered impersonation, phishing, fake support pages, and automated brand abuse can move quickly once attackers identify a weak point. A fragmented domain strategy can make it easier to confuse customers, employees, vendors, and partners.

“With trillions of dollars in plausible cybersecurity exposure, brands should not wait until AI-driven impersonation becomes a boardroom emergency,” added Michael Gargiulo. “Premium domains, defensive registrations, clean Internet Protocol space, core containment, and trusted digital access points should be evaluated before attackers or competitors exploit the gaps.”

About VPN.com

VPN.com providers expert insights and research on the best ways to protect yourself and your brand when you get online. VPN.com, CEO Michael Gargiulo and VP Sharjil Saleem have spent years guiding brands through high-value domain acquisitions, global brand management, and complex digital asset negotiations. The company understands what it takes to secure world-class digital category-defining domain name and assets.

For media and interview inquiries: Michael Gargiulo, 855-VPN-FAST or 422448@email4pr.com

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