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Woolpert, Chance Maritime Employ Autonomous Vessel and Team Collaboration to Efficiently Map Florida Seafloor

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KEY WEST, Fla., March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Woolpert and Chance Maritime have partnered to leverage autonomous technology, geospatial expertise, and broad-based staffing to most efficiently collect hydrographic survey data in support of the Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative and other projects off the coast of Florida.

Woolpert, a leading provider of lidar and sonar bathymetry and hydrographic survey data, was tasked by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to map the seafloor off the coast of Florida to advance coastal resilience and mitigate the impact of hurricanes and flood inundation as part of FSMI. Woolpert enlisted Chance Maritime to mobilize its Mission Capable 29, a 29-foot uncrewed survey vessel, enabling the firms to monitor vessel operations and data collection remotely.

“What is distinctive about the Chance Maritime vessel is that it can securely carry and operate our sensors and highly sensitive equipment, but it also has exceptional power and endurance,” Woolpert Vice President and Maritime Market Director Dave Neff said. “We knew the MC29 could run continuously for more than a week, 24/7, through pretty rough weather, from near shore to about 100 kilometers offshore. This allowed us to collect the most accurate, high-quality data in the least amount of time.”

To monitor the data collection 24 hours a day, Woolpert enlisted a few staff members in locations across multiple time zones to each work in consecutive six- or eight-hour shifts, communicating over Microsoft Teams, to remotely monitor data collection. Chance Maritime had staff in Florida around the clock to monitor the vessel.

“Our team stayed in communication 100% of the time through shift handoffs,” Chance Maritime Chief Technology Officer Michael Scherer said. “Even though there are not people on the water, the skilled cross-disciplinary team monitors the equipment 24/7 from shore without having to get seasick. If the MC29 gets hailed by a nearby vessel, we can answer remotely. By not having to return to shore for crew changes and short weather events, we increase the efficiency of survey operations.”

The MC29 can operate for 20 or more days continuously while delivering kilowatts of continuous power to its onboard sensors. It is compact and can be transported by road via boat trailer, allowing it to be deployed quickly to any site around the country, including after extreme weather events. “The MC29 has the simple logistics of a small survey vessel with the endurance and 24-hour production capabilities of a much larger survey vessel,” said Stuart Chance, Chance Maritime CEO.

Neff added that this streamlined approach enabled Woolpert’s hydrography team to mobilize to other project locations, expanding efficiencies outside the initial project.

“There’s a lot of coastal mapping, dredge spoil surveys, and more that needs to be done to support navigation safety, national security, coastal resilience, disaster mitigation, etc.,” Neff said. “We took this novel approach by combining our advancing resources and technologies with those of Chance Maritime, and it proved successful for all involved. We’re excited to build on this technology partnership to advance our maritime efficiencies while still collecting and delivering the highest quality geospatial data.”

About Chance Maritime
Chance Maritime Technologies provides Ocean Drones as a service with industry leading power and endurance. We specialize in the design, build, operation, lease, and sale of uncrewed boats to commercial, government, and academic clients. Chance Maritime’s team of experts have over 120 years of combined experience in uncrewed design and operations, ensuring quality and precise solutions which meet customer needs. For more information, visit www.chancemaritime.com.

About Woolpert
Woolpert is the premier architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) firm, with a vision to become one of the best companies in the world. We innovate within and across markets to effectively serve public, private, and government clients worldwide. Woolpert is a Global Top 100 Geospatial Company, a Top 100 ENR Global Design firm and has earned eight Great Place to Work certifications. Founded in 1911 in Dayton, Ohio, Woolpert has been America’s fastest-growing AEG firm since 2015. Woolpert has over 2,700 employees and more than 60 offices on five continents. For more, visit woolpert.com.

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SafeLogic Unveils SafeLogic CPM: A Comprehensive Cryptographic Posture Management Solution for the Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography

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New solution delivers continuous cryptographic visibility, risk-based PQC migration planning and crypto-agile governance in a comprehensive modular platform

VIENNA, Va., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SafeLogic, a leading provider of cryptographic software, announced SafeLogic Cryptographic Posture Management (SafeLogic CPM™), a comprehensive modular platform that enables organizations to attain continuous visibility into their operational cryptography use, prioritize PQC migration efforts based on real business risk and contextual operational use context, execute remediation with SafeLogic’s FIPS 140 validated post-quantum cryptography, and attain policy driven crypto-agile governance of ongoing cryptographic use.

As governments and regulators worldwide move from planning to active PQC migration, organizations face a fundamental challenge: they cannot modernize cryptography they cannot see and understand.

SafeLogic Cryptographic Posture Management addresses this challenge by delivering continuous visibility into cryptographic assets and combining automated discovery, CBOM-based inventory, contextual risk prioritization and integrated remediation into a single platform. Rather than relying on one-time assessments, organizations gain continuous insight into evolving cryptographic risks as applications change, new code is deployed and threats emerge. By adding business context to cryptographic findings, SafeLogic CPM enables security teams to prioritize the most critical remediation efforts and accelerate their transition to quantum-resistant cryptography while maintaining crypto-agile governance.

This system allows organizations to move seamlessly from understanding where cryptography exists to replacing vulnerable implementations with validated quantum-resistant cryptography without stitching together multiple vendors or disconnected tools. Unlike traditional scanning tools that provide only isolated snapshots, SafeLogic CPM continuously discovers cryptography across the software lifecycle. The solution combines multiple discovery methods including CI/CD pipeline scanning, host-based analysis, network TLS discovery, and runtime telemetry to build a single correlated inventory of cryptographic assets.

Evgeny Gervis, CEO of SafeLogic, said: “The biggest obstacle to post-quantum migration is understanding where cryptography exists, determining what actually matters, and remediating it without disrupting operations. Paralysis by analysis that often comes from wading through noisy data from traditional cryptographic discovery tools is no longer an option.  The time to prioritize, remediate and govern cryptographic use is here and that is exactly what SafeLogic CPM does.”

Key capabilities of SafeLogic Cryptographic Posture Management include:

Continuous cryptographic discovery across application source code, cryptographic libraries, operating systems, certificates, TLS communications, and runtime execution. Layered agent and agentless sensors that provide comprehensive visibility throughout development, deployment, and production environments.A continuously updated, correlated cryptographic inventory exported as a standards-based CycloneDX CBOM for compliance and audit readiness.Business-aware prioritization that combines technical findings with operational context to identify the highest-risk assets first.Integrated remediation, enabling organizations to replace vulnerable cryptography with SafeLogic’s validated quantum-resistant implementations without disrupting existing software delivery processes.Policy-based governance that enables organizations to define approved cryptographic standards, continuously enforce compliance, and identify policy violations across the enterprise.Modular and flexible deployment that integrates with existing telemetry sources, discovery tools and reporting dashboards, enabling organizations to adopt their needed SafeLogic CPM capabilities while preserving their existing security investments.

SafeLogic’s more than fifteen years of leadership in developing, certifying, and delivering strong FIPS 140 validated cryptographic software across enterprise, cloud, mobile, embedded, IOT, to mainframe environments.  The company has also taken a leadership role with PQC standardization and adoption, with deep involvement in shaping government policy, including leading NIST NCCOE’s Cryptographic Visibility and Risk Based Management workstream.  This combination of deep cryptographic expertise and PQC leadership uniquely position SafeLogic to deliver a comprehensive approach to cryptographic posture management.

As organizations prepare for evolving requirements including NIST’s post-quantum standards, NSA’s CNSA 2.0 guidance, and increasing regulatory expectations worldwide, SafeLogic CPM provides a unified platform for continuous cryptographic discovery, risk-based prioritization and remediation enabling organizations to confidently manage their transition to quantum-resistant cryptography from assessment through deployment, while also uncovering and addressing existing cryptographic technical debt and enabling ongoing crypto-agile management of cryptography going forward.

SafeLogic Cryptographic Posture Management is available immediately. For more details, visit our blog.

About SafeLogic

Founded in 2012, SafeLogic’s validated, holistic, and interoperable cryptographic software products enable enduring privacy and trust in the ever-changing digital world. Trusted by many top firms, SafeLogic expedites and streamlines the adoption of FIPS 140-validated classical and post-quantum cryptography while enabling strong entropy, crypto-agility, and cryptographic posture management.

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SpeedBuilder Systems Launches FormMaker 2.0 to Accelerate Insurance Document Automation

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COLUMBIA, S.C., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SpeedBuilder Systems, Inc. (“SBS”), an award-winning provider of SaaS solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry, today announced the release of FormMaker 2.0, the latest version of its insurance document automation solution. Fully integrated with Microsoft Word and the BindExpress Suite, FormMaker enables insurers to create, edit, and maintain policy forms without relying on software developers or IT resources.

Maintaining insurance forms is one of the most complex and costly aspects of policy administration due to frequent product updates, evolving regulations, and state-specific filing requirements. FormMaker 2.0 streamlines the process by giving business users direct control over document creation and maintenance.

“Form and document management remains one of the biggest operational challenges for insurers,” said Rod Giess, president and founder of SpeedBuilder Systems. “FormMaker 2.0 gives carriers greater control over their documents, reduces dependence on IT, and helps them respond more quickly to regulatory and product changes.”

FormMaker 2.0 features a redesigned interface with enhanced editing and formatting tools, improved search and navigation, configurable keyboard shortcuts, better image handling, and flexible PDF generation. These enhancements enable users to produce sophisticated, data-driven insurance documents more efficiently and accurately.

“Technology should make insurers more agile, not more dependent on technical resources,” Giess added. “FormMaker 2.0 reflects our commitment to delivering practical solutions that improve operational efficiency while giving insurers greater flexibility and control.”

By allowing business analysts to manage forms within the familiar Microsoft Word environment, FormMaker 2.0 reduces implementation costs, accelerates document updates, and frees IT teams to focus on higher-value strategic initiatives.

About SpeedBuilder Systems

SpeedBuilder Systems, Inc. (www.speedbuildersystems.com) offers large enterprise-class solutions for small to medium-sized P&C insurance carriers and MGAs. The BindExpress Suite® is an integrated set of components including policy administration, rating, automated underwriting, agent and consumer portals, product configuration, billing, claims, automated workflow,  and document generation.  Its AlwaysCurrent Architecture™ enables customers to tailor the system to their unique requirements while adopting future product enhancements – without costly retrofitting of customized code.

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New Unlock Survey: Homeowner Parents Face a Dual Caregiving Crisis

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41% are supporting both their children and their parents at the same time – and most aren’t clear how the home equity they’ve built could help.

TEMPE, Ariz., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A new national survey* commissioned by Unlock, a leading provider of home equity agreements (HEAs), reveals that homeowners who are also parents are navigating a financial squeeze that goes well beyond the typical cost-of-living pressures. Caring simultaneously for children and aging parents – a dynamic coining the term “sandwich generation” – is forcing homeowners to make trade-offs with real, long-lasting consequences.

The squeeze is coming from both directions
The dual caregiving burden is hitting hard in both directions: a staggering 41% of homeowner parents are also financially supporting their own parents in some way, with roughly 4 in 10 saying summer childcare costs (42%) and school-year childcare (41%) are adding a significant financial burden. More than half (56%) say caregiving costs are affecting their long-term financial plans.

“Behind every statistic about the sandwich generation is a real person making painful tradeoffs,” said Michael Micheletti, chief communications and marketing officer at Unlock. “A parent who didn’t see a doctor this year. A family living with a leak they can’t afford to fix. A couple quietly closing the door on having another child. These aren’t data points; they’re what it looks like when financial pressures reshape people’s lives.

Today’s expenses, tomorrow’s trade-offs
More than seven in ten (71%) homeowner parents say today’s expenses are preventing them from building future wealth. That financial pressure is shaping major life decisions:

66% would send their children to a better school if they could afford it;66% believe paying for college will reduce their retirement savings;47% are delaying home repairs or improvements;43% have decided not to expand their families even though they’d like to.

Among homeowners without a mortgage, 30% still strongly agree that today’s expenses are holding them back from building wealth. That’s nearly as many as the 36% who still carry one, signaling that the culprit isn’t a monthly mortgage payment; it’s everything else.

The equity is there. So is the opportunity to explore it.
Yet American homeowners collectively hold nearly $35 trillion in home equity, averaging $274,000 for a typical U.S. homeowner – and many homeowner parents don’t realize they may be able to access it.

“There’s a significant gap between what homeowners have built and what they believe is available to them,” continued Micheletti. “Forty percent of the people we surveyed don’t know how much equity they have, and 39% don’t think they’d qualify for any option to tap into it. That’s worth talking about, regardless of what they ultimately decide to do with it.”

*METHODOLODY: Unlock commissioned Atomik Research to conduct an online survey of 1,500 homeowner parents of children throughout the United States from May 28 to June 1, 2026. The margin of error is ±2.5 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. Atomik Research, part of 4mediagroup, is a creative market research agency.

Home equity agreements are offered by Unlock Home Equity Solutions Inc. (NMLS# 2657081) in certain states: www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. Visit Unlock.com/licenses for more information.

About Unlock
Founded in 2020, Unlock Technologies is a Tempe, Arizona-based financial technology company providing products and services that help consumers solve financial challenges and improve their financial health. The company’s flagship product is its home equity agreement, a financing option for homeowners who want to access the equity they have built, without adding monthly payments or having to refinance or sell their home.  

Media contact: Allison Ferré, Communications and Public Relations Director, allison.ferre@unlock.com

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