A Virginia delegation will visit Israel the week of May 8 to present a special Seminar that will explain the role that accurate market intelligence has in securing government and state contracts.   Brian Flood, an expert in identifying actionable market intelligence that leads to revenue growth, is flying in from the Washington DC/Virginia area to deliver the seminar.
 
Brian is a Vice President of Market Intelligence Services at Fedsources.   What is meant by “actionable market intelligence” and how does it differ from the huge amount of resources publicly available over the internet? Brian confidently explained that “We provide information that often seems like light years before it appears on public sites… if it appears at all.   Timing of the information is critical if you are to use it to succeed in the $100 billion federal civilian and defense IT market.”
 
Hatice Murphy from Fairfax County Economic Development Authority and Ralph Robbins, the Executive Director of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, will travel to Israel for the Seminar.  Following morning seminar, Mr. Flood and the Virginia delegation will hold one-on-one consultation sessions with Israeli companies. 
 
The program is being organized in Israel by the Israel Export Export Institute.  For more information and to reserve a space, click here.

(Wytheville, VA,) – Acrylife and a team of professors and students at Virginia Tech developed a new vent technology for membrane roofing systems. The system is designed to allow light, transportable structures to withstand hurricane force winds similar to those of Katrina..  The structures are made from a membrane produced by an Israeli company, Haogenplast. 
 
Ongoing discussions with Haogenplast were facilitated through the VITAL (Virginia Israel Tech Alliance) Program, which was developed jointly by Joe Meredith, PhD, President of the Corporate Research Center at Virginia Tech and Ralph Robbins of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board.
 
The new vent design takes advantage of fluid mechanics and aerodynamic principals to eliminate the uplift pressures that develop on membrane roofs during high wind conditions.

AMTI is specially suited for Israeli high tech companies that need to move from prototype to lower volume production needed for initial market penetration in the US.   The company can also facilitate market entry through their connections with companies like Sony Eriksson, Infineon, Integrian, and Force to name a few.  They offer a unique service that prices production for smaller market entry volume and for larger volume which they can produce in the Far East through their “partners”, thus preventing disasters that plague many young companies that lack Far East experience. 

Arlington, Va. --Good Harbor Partners, an entity founded last August by former White House Security Advisor Richard Clarkewith dual headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and Boston, said on Monday that it has raised $58.3 million in an initial public offering (IPO), and plans to use the proceeds to acquire a security technology company. Specifically, Good Harbor said that it is searching for a company from the U.S., Europe, Israel or Asia in the fields of access control, asset tracking, cyber security, detector technologies or intelligent video surveillance. "The structure of the acquisition corporation as a financing vehicle gives the company the flexibility to target companies in a range of $43 million to $160 million in enterprise value," said Ralph Sheridan, the CEO of Good Harbor.