BullEx Digital Safety, a Troy-based client of our member incubator the Watervliet Innovation Center, recently announced delivery of a 30-foot, four-compartment, live-fire training simulator to the U.S. Coast Guard training center in Cape May, N.J. The WIC provides a platform of shared and customized servcies to companies in the homeland security, national security, and defense-technology markets.

Strategic Response Initiatives, LLC, a tenant/client of our member Watervliet Innovation Center, has announced a deal under which it will be the only authorized U.S. distributor of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and fire protective suits manufactured by Paul Boyé Technologies, a 500-employee firm based in Les Vernet, France. SRI was founded in 2004. WIC, a program of the Center for Economic Growth and based at the Watervliet Arsenal Business & Technology Partnership campus, specializes in incubating companies with business in the homeland security/national defense sector.

Page 44, a tenant of the our supporting member Syracuse Technology Garden, announced it has signed a deal to develop new video games for Disney Interactive Studios based on the globally successful "High School Musical Franchise." The games for Wii,™ Xbox 360,® and PlayStation®2 are being created by Chris Klamm, Page 44's Syracuse studio director, in conjunction with other Page 44 studios in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.

The Tech Garden also announced a new tenant: SentryLight, developer of a fully concealed emergency lighting system. Invented by a firefighter, the SentryLight system is hidden inside the wall until the event of an AC power failure and is UL approved for installation at any height. Chief Marketing Officer Adam Lilien and Director of Operations Yong Zhang will be working out of the Tech Garden to develop other life-safety products.

At least six tenants or non-resident affiliates of three BIA/NYS member incubators or research parks were among 35 small businesses pre-selected to present to Lockheed Martin at a day-long Small Business and University Innovation Technology Day showcase sponsored by NYSTAR and Syracuse University's CASE Center (parent of a member incubator program). For a complete description of the event, click on the first link, to Lockheed Martin's press release.

According to a cross-check run by NYSTAR against our incubator-tenant database, the presenting firms included three served by our member the Watervliet Innovation Center (Applied Nanoworks, Assured Information Security, InterScience, and XOS), one served by the SUNY Downstate Advanced Biotechnology Incubator (Phoebus Optoelectronics), and one tenant at NYSERDA's Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (ecoPower).

Edmund Egan and Bruce Holm — both faculty members at SUNY's University at Buffalo and both closely associated with the anchor tenant of our supporting member UB Technology Incubator — were honored with the university's first annual Faculty Entrepreneur Award.

Dr. Egan is the president and CEO of ONY, Inc., and Dr. Holm (who is the executive director of the UB NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences) is the co-inventor of the underlying technology, a lung surfactant to prevent respiratory distress in premature babies.

Based on research by UB, University of Rochester, and University of Western Ontario, ONY was founded in 1985 and received FDA approval in 1999. Since then the surfactant has been administered to more than 250,000 premature babies. ONY is the largest and anchor tenant of the UB Technology Incubator. Congratulations to Drs. Egan and Holm!