Cayuga County Chamber appoints new board of directors

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Saab Sensis president Viggiano to retire in early March, Kaminski named successor

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DeWITT — Marc Viggiano, president of Saab Sensis, today announced his retirement from the company, effective March 7. Upon Viggiano’s retirement, Ken Kaminski will assume the role of president at Saab Sensis, the firm said in a news release. Kaminski currently serves as general manager of Saab Sensis air-traffic management and previously held numerous management

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DeWITT — Marc Viggiano, president of Saab Sensis, today announced his retirement from the company, effective March 7.

Upon Viggiano’s retirement, Ken Kaminski will assume the role of president at Saab Sensis, the firm said in a news release.

Kaminski currently serves as general manager of Saab Sensis air-traffic management and previously held numerous management roles within the company.

Viggiano will continue to serve Saab Sensis in an air-traffic management advisory capacity, the company said.

Viggiano joined Sensis Corp. in 1986, shortly after its inception.

In the years that followed, he served in multiple roles and was “instrumental” in the growth of Sensis into a “trusted” contractor for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Defense, and various international aviation and defense customers, Saab Sensis said.

Upon Saab AB’s acquisition of Sensis in August, 2011, the company named Viggiano president of Saab Sensis. In addition, the firm in June 2012 named Viggiano vice president of product area traffic management in the Saab Security & Defense Solutions business area.

Headquartered in DeWitt, Saab Sensis is a wholly owned subsidiary of Saab AB, a Swedish defense and security company.

“Marc has made a significant, lasting impact on the global aviation industry and the U.S. defense industry. He was instrumental in leading the development and deployment of many products which have significantly improved the safety of daily air travel. All of us at Saab look forward to building on the good work he has done,” Gunilla Fransson, senior vice president, Saab Security & Defense Solutions, said in the news release.

Saab Sensis provides the global aviation markets with advanced sensor technologies, next-generation radars, automation, and modeling and simulation products, the company says.

Layoffs

Saab Sensis recently announced plans to lay off 30 full-time employees at its U.S. operations in DeWitt and Campbell, Calif.

The affected workers are part of the firm’s air-traffic operations, the company said in a statement it emailed to CNYBJ.com.

The layoffs are the result of a “challenging business environment in both domestic and international markets,” Viggiano said in the Jan. 29 statement.

“Taking these difficult actions now will enable the company to remain competitive in the market in the long term and to continue to provide the solutions and affordability our customers expect,” Viggiano added.

Saab Sensis employed 428 people in Central New York, as of December, according to CNYBJ Research.

Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com

NYPA launches energy-efficiency collaborative

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The New York Power Authority (NYPA) on Thursday announced the formation of the energy-efficiency innovation collaborative (EE-INC), which seeks to improve energy efficiency in New York state buildings and spur economic growth in emerging technologies. EE-INC is a public-private partnership of energy industry leaders that NYPA is spearheading. The EE-INC is also announcing a request

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EE-INC is a public-private partnership of energy industry leaders that NYPA is spearheading.

The EE-INC is also announcing a request for information (RFI), through which it is seeking commercial, but not yet widely deployed, energy-efficiency technologies that it can consider for use in projects targeting the state’s public buildings, NYPA said.

The EE-INC includes NYPA, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and Empire State Development, which is New York’s primary economic-development agency.

Other members of the collaborative include the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE); the Ashburn, Va.–based Institute for Building Technology and Safety, and the Palo Alto, Calif.–based Electric Power Research Institute.

The SyracuseCoE team includes Syracuse University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Taitem Engineering of Ithaca, and CDH Energy Corp. of Cazenovia, NYPA said.

Additional partners include CenterState CEO, MEG Control Products of DeRuyter, CHC Construction of DeWitt, Binghamton University, and Stony Brook University, the Power Authority said.

The goal is to generate growth in the “most promising energy-saving innovations,” with a focus on those that match the energy needs of public buildings, Gil Quiniones, president and CEO of NYPA, said in the news release.

“Encouraging highly promising and expanding energy-efficiency companies will also offer increased economic-development benefits for New York state. In short, it means jobs,” Quiniones said.

NYPA has plans to finance more than $800 million in energy-efficiency projects over the next several years in support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Build Smart NY initiative.

The initiative’s goal is to improve the energy efficiency of state-government facilities by 20 percent by 2020, NYPA said.

The Power Authority aims to incorporate energy-saving technologies into the projects that it is undertaking at schools, colleges and universities, offices, health-care facilities, and other public buildings throughout the state.

The RFI process is currently open-ended, NYPA said, but it will have periodic cut-off dates to allow for review of the submitted information.

The first cut-off is scheduled for March 25, the Power Authority added.

Contact Reinhardt at ereinhardt@cnybj.com

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