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KNOXVILLE, TN (MARKET WIRE) Aqua-Chem, Inc., a leading supplier of water purification systems to the offshore oil and gas, pharmaceutical, beverage and military markets, today announced it has acquired the product lines and certain other assets of Matrix Utilities, Inc., a leader in reverse osmosis desalination systems for marine and land-based applications. Altus Capital Partners, Aqua-Chem's largest investor, advised on the transaction. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

BALTIMORE, MD (MARKET WIRE) View systems, Inc. (OTCBB: VSYM), a leading homeland defense solutions provider, announced today that the ViewScan Concealed Weapons Detection Portal System was selected for use as part of the security screening measures during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. ViewScans were placed at the VIP entrance to the Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium. This unit placement was facilitated by View's dealer representative in China, Shanghai Zhongbao Security Business Consulting Co., Ltd.

ANN ARBOR, MI (MARKET WIRE) Arotech Corporation (NASDAQ: ARTX), a provider of quality defense and security products for the military, law enforcement and security markets, announced today that its battery and power systems division has received $2.0 million in new primary and rechargeable battery orders from an unnamed Asian military for various portable military applications.

WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) SDR FORUM, BOOTH #36 -- LynuxWorks(TM), Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that ITT, a diversified high-technology engineering and manufacturing company, has selected LynuxWorks' LynxOS(R)-SE 5.0 real time operating system (RTOS) for the company's next-generation secure communications products.

CHANTILLY, VA (MARKET WIRE) AMERICAN systems, a government and commercial IT solutions provider and one of the top 100 employee-owned companies in the U.S., today announced the promotion of Ali Kalwar to vice president and director of the company's Custom Creative Solutions (CCS) directorate. In this new role, Kalwar will provide expert oversight to the directorate's projects aimed at delivering software, hardware, training, electronic classroom, systems integration and courseware development solutions tailored to the needs of public and private sector customers.

Boeing and the Machinists union have agreed on a proposed contract that could end the seven-week-old strike, but the terms won't be disclosed until Tuesday.

ENGLEWOOD, CO (MARKET WIRE) TeleTech Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest and most geographically diverse global providers of business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, today announced details relating to the release of its third quarter 2008 financial results and related conference call and webcast.

LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) announced today that it is establishing a world-class aerospace centre at Montreal-Mirabel International Airport for the final assembly and test of the new generation PW800 family of engines. P&WC is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company.

In fulfillment of the initial phase of the contract with Canada's Air Transat, VEM Maintenance & Engineering delivered the first of four A310s on 20 October 2008, which are in line for C-checks at VEM's facilities in Rio de Janeiro this year. The services for the second airplane began on 1 October, and those for the third also began on 20 October. VEM delivered the first aircraft (C-GTSX) in 25 days. The work went on without interruption during that time and the team, which was devoted exclusively to this project, worked in three shifts, including weekends. The heavy maintenance service...