Daily Business Report: Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Northrop Grumman begins full-rate production
of Link-16 for the Marine Corps
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $65 million contract by the U.S. Navy to execute the full rate production of Link-16 for the U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft, which will involve the integration of data link hardware across the fleet.
Link-16 is a secure data link that allows H-1 crews to share data and communications with other aircraft and users on military networks. This capability is a critical mission enabler as the Department of Defense moves to Joint All-Domain Command and Control.
Northrop Grumman’s mission systems solution for the H-1 fleet is trusted and combat-proven, with more than 450,000 total flight hours. The innovative processes, capabilities and open architecture developed for the H-1 fleet are directly applicable to other platforms and could be utilized in future aircraft development programs such as NAVAIR Vertical Take Off and Landing Family of Systems (VTOL FoS), MUX, and others.
TOP PHOTO: Link-16 will give the AH-1Z and UH-1Y the ability to share data and communications securely with other aircraft and users of military networks.
Titan, Malick and Thornburg companies
break ground on six-story North Park project
Titan Development, Malick Infill Development and Thornburg Real Estate Ventures have formed a joint venture and broken ground on a 53,805-square-foot multifamily project in North Park. The six-story, 94‐unit esidential community will be located at the southwest corner of El Cajon Boulevard and Oregon Street, at 4250 Oregon St.
The project is funded in part by Titan Development Real Estate Fund II, which closed in February 2020, as well as Thornburg Real Estate Ventures, a real estate group and wholly-owned subsidiary of Thornburg Investment Management. Titan’s Fund II targets investments in multifamily and industrial projects.
“North Park is where I live and work,” said Andrew Malick, founder and principal of Malick Infill Development. “I am proud to be developing another project in my neighborhood and can’t wait to open the doors and meet my new neighbors.”
Social Media Marketing World conference
opens at the San Diego Convention Center
Thousands of social marketers from around the world will attend Social Media Marketing Word, the world’s largest conference dedicated to social media marketing. The conference opened Monday at the San Diego Convention Center and extends through Wednesday.
The conference, hosted by Social Media Examiner, will once again welcome leading industry experts, top-tier solutions and tech vendors, and professional small business marketers hungry to learn for three days of career-changing content, one-on-one networking, and a little fun in the California sun.
Attendees will learn how to take their marketing and careers to the next level by harnessing the power of organic social, paid campaigns, content marketing, and social strategy to build a social presence to rival even the biggest brands in their niche.
After a day of hands-on workshops, the opening ceremony kicks off on Tuesday morning, at 8 a.m. with the event’s founder, Michael Stelzner,revealing the hottest trends in social media and how they will affect marketing, now and in the future.
Home sales edged up in February,
and prices continue to rise
Sales of previously owned homes improved somewhat in February from a particularly slow January, according to housing statistics compiled through the San Diego Multiple Listing Service by the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors.
Single-family (detached) home sales rose more than 3 percent last month, while attached properties (condominiums and townhomes) experienced a healthy 10-and-a-half percent increase in sales in February. Sales were down, however, compared to the same month last year: Detached home sales were 11 percent lower, and attached home sales were down more than 14 percent.
The median price of resale homes were up again, not surprisingly. Single-family home prices surpassed the $900,000 mark for the first time, an increase of almost 4 percent month-over-month. The closing price of condos and townhomes was up nearly 6 percent, landing at $625,000. Overall, home prices are up about 18 percent from a year ago. In February, homes were closing escrow in an average of three weeks.
Scripps Research develops smartphone app
to calculate genetic risk for heart attack
A Scripps Research team developed a smartphone app that can calculate users’ genetic risk for coronary artery disease (CAD)—and found that users at high risk sought out appropriate medication after using the app.
In the study, which appears in npg Digital Medicine, the researchers detailed how their app
called MyGeneRank inputs participating individuals’ genetic information from the 23andMe genetic testing company and outputs a CAD risk score based on the DNA data. Of the 721 participants who provided complete information, those with high-risk scores were much more likely to start using statins or other cholesterol-lowering therapies, compared to those with low-risk scores.
“We saw about twice the rate of statin initiation in the high genetic risk group vs the low genetic risk group, which indicates that strategies like this could make a big contribution to public health—heart disease being the largest cause of death globally,” says study senior author Ali Torkamani, professor and director of Genomics and Genome Informatics at the Scripps Research Translational Institute.
Jamul Casino promotes James Donovan to executive chef
James Donovan has been promoted to executive chef at Jamul Casino.
A native of San Diego, Donovan graduated from El Cajon Valley High School in 1993. His career began just three years later in 1996 as a line cook at Viejas Casino & Resort.
Energized by the casino kitchen environment, he spent his career working his way up the casino culinary ladder. Upon assuming leadership roles, he discovered a passion for relationship-building, and opening and assisting in designing new restaurants.
Donovan was recruited to join Jamul Casino in 2016 as a sous chef.
He is a top manager for Jamul Casino’s Food & Beverage team of 200 members, overseeing the 85 crew members in the back of the house. Helping to ensure Jamul Casino is a preferred employer, he is also focused on providing fresh, healthy, and very popular cuisine served in the employee dining room.
Omar Salah, joins Comerica Inc. as
director of small business banking
Omar Salah, a 20-year banking industry veteran, has joined Comerica Inc. to fill the newly-created director of small business banking position, which was established to bolster Comerica’s services for small business.
He will be based in San Diego.
Last year, Comerica announced a commitment of $5 billion over the course of three years to support small business lending.
Salah is active in the Southern California community where he serves on the board of Junior Achievement of San Diego County and volunteers with the San Diego Arab Film Festival committee.
He holds a master’s degree from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine and a bachelor’s degree from California State University San Marcos.
Carissa Rollins joins Illumina Inc.
as chief information officer
Carissa Rollins, a veteran of 30 years in the areas of business technology transformation and digital and consumerization strategiy, has joined Illumina Inc. as chief information officer.
Rollins will report to Chief Executive Officer Francis deSouza.
Most recently, Rollins was the chief information officer at UnitedHealthcare.
She was responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and technology investments supporting the commercial, Medicare and retirement, and government programs technology business portfolios.
Before UnitedHealthcare, Rollins held executive and senior leadership positions at Gander Mountain, Kohl’s Corporation, Manpower Global, and Miller-Coors.
Rollins has served on the oard of Didrectors for the YWCA, Minneapolis, and is currently the board chair.
She also serves on the Grand Canyon Conservancy board and the T-Mobile advisory board. Rollins holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems and an MBA from Marquette University.
Palomar Health awarded on Newsweek’s
list of World’s Best Hospitals
Palomar Health has been awarded on Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Hospitals 2022. Palomar Health has been included in this esteemed list of World’s Best Hospitals for the past three years in 2020, 2021 and now in 2022.
As the largest public healthcare district in California with an 800 square-mile service area, Palomar Health is anchored by two state-of-the-art medical center campuses offering medical services in virtually all fields of medicine; including primary care, cardiovascular care, emergency services, trauma, cancer, orthopedics, women’s health, behavioral health, rehabilitation, pediatrics, neonatal intensive care as well as robotic and bariatric surgery.
“The only way you can make the list of World’s Best Hospitals is to have the world’s best doctors backed by the world’s best nurses, technicians and support staff,” says Palomar Health President and CEO Diane Hansen.
Melax Tech receives NIH award to construct
AI-assisted application using COVID-19 data sets
Melax Tech, along with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, announces the securing of a Phase I contract focused on the development and enhancement of innovative user-focused informatic tools for use in basic and clinical research on infectious, immune and allergic diseases.
The Phase 1 contract, valued at $300,000, has been awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a COVID-19 Dataset Knowledge Graph to facilitate integrated analysis of heterogeneous COVID-19 data sets. The work is being done in partnership with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where researchers contribute experience gained in developing Knowledge Graphs by participating in the NSF Open Knowledge Network initiative, as well as other COVID-19 related projects.
Despite existing efforts making COVID-19 data sets available for research uses, the volume and the heterogeneity of COVID-19 data make it difficult for researchers to find, understand and reuse relevant data sets for their research purposes.
BSI Consulting Receives 2021
EBJ Business Achievement Award
Environmental Business Journal, a business research publication, has honored BSI Consulting with a Business Achievement Award for Technology Merit: Emergency Preparedness App in 2021. This award was made possible with the support of ReadyKey, a division of Guidebook.
BSI Consulting was recognized for developing an EHS Preparedness Mobile App with a global food and beverage organization seeking to access emergency action plans, responders, their roles and contact information – as well as a seamless method of keeping this information up to date.
In the absence of market-ready solutions, BSI Consulting worked with the client’s EHS, IT, and Enterprise Architecture teams to integrate critical design elements, as well as a third-party developer to design a solution.
New technology enables unprecedented
glimpse inside single brain cells
Salk Institute researchers have developed a new genomic technology to simultaneously analyze the DNA, RNA and chromatin—a combination of DNA and protein—from a single cell. The method, which took five years to develop, is an important step forward for large collaborations where multiple teams are working simultaneously to classify thousands of new cell types. The new technology, published in Cell Genomics on March 9, 2022, will help streamline analyses.
“This multimodal platform is going to be useful by providing a comprehensive database that can be used by the groups trying to integrate their single-modality data,” says Joseph Ecker,
director of the Genomic Analysis Laboratory, the Salk International Council Chair in Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. “This new information can also inform and guide future cell-type classification.”
Qualcomm and ESL Gaming join forces
to revolutionize mobile esports
ESL Gaming is joining forces with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. to revolutionize the trajectory of mobile esports, bringing the excitement of competition to players’ pockets around the globe. The multi-year agreement highlights the joint vision and commitment to provide accessible and high quality mobile esports experiences for both new and veteran competitors.
The Snapdragon Pro Series will be a comprehensive global mobile esports ecosystem, with tournaments in North America, Europe, the Middle-East, China, North Africa and Asia-Pacific. Snapdragon Pro Series will launch a premier global, multi-genre mobile esports competition, culminating in an epic live Masters final event.
