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CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — aPriori, the leading provider of automated product cost management (PCM) software and service solutions for global manufacturers, today announced the newest release of the company’s flagship product, aPriori Professional 2018 R1.

This new release concentrates on helping manufacturers combat some of the most critical challenges they are facing in their businesses today, including:

• Aerospace manufacturers are struggling with how to accommodate fixed price contracts and maintain profitability in an environment where new materials and manufacturing processes are being introduced continuously.
• Automotive manufacturers are struggling with major platform redesigns that are required to meet the demand for new electrified and autonomous vehicles.
• Industrial Machinery manufacturers are faced with new competition from more nimble start-up competitors in low cost countries that continue to put pressure on bringing new innovations to market faster.
• Electronic High Tech product manufacturers are facing extreme challenges to bring innovative products to market faster requiring near perfect collaboration with their Contract Manufacturing partners who face their own challenges generating accurate quotes for new product designs in a timely manner.

Highlights of aPriori Professional 2018 R1

With aPriori 2018 R1, the company continues its commitment to helping customers overcome these challenges using time-proven product cost management business strategies and the world’s most advanced PCM technology platform.  The primary highlights of this

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A hearing on aviation safety on Tuesday was dominated by concerns over the possibility of the proliferation of unmanned aircraft systems and the threat those drones pose to commercial and other manned aircraft.

“We agree, something needs to be done to regulate them,” Ali Bahrami, associate administrator for aviation safety at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), told members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee during the hearing on the State of Aviation Safety. “We need to work with you.”

The FAA executive was responding to comments from Rep. Pete DeFazio, R-Ore., who insisted that Congress “rather stupidly rejected” the regulation of the rapidly growing number of recreational drones after a massive lobbying effort by the industry.

“It’s not a question of if, but when,” Matthew Hampton, assistant Inspector General for Aviation Audits at the Department of Transportation, said of the eventuality of a recreational drone crashing into a commercial airliner.

Several lawmakers recounted last September’s collision of a small recreational drone with an Army helicopter near Staten Island, N.Y., which damaged the helicopter’s main rotor blade, window frame and transmission deck. The collision did not cause any major injuries.

The FAA’s Bahrami said the agency is working on proposed drone regulations but it is unclear what authority the FAA’s regulations will have over noncommercial drones because of last year’s ruling by a U.S. appeals court in Washington striking down the FAA’s rule that required recreational drone owners to register their craft. The court ruled that a law passed by Congress in 2012

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The next time your dad tells you to stop lying around the house all summer and go out and make some money, tell him you’re training to win a million bucks. That’s pretty much what happened in the season finale of The Amazing Race on Wednesday night. Cody and Jessica, having spent the past season of Big Brother taking naps and snickering at everyone around them, proved themselves lively competitors in the 30th running of the “race around the world” and won the million-dollar first-place prize.

To accomplish this, the duo defeated the two other finalist teams, Yale graduates Henry and Evan and X-Games champs Kristi and Jen. For anyone who watched Cody and Jess’s time in the Big Brother house, their Amazing Race performance was startling. In BB, the duo was an isolationist pair, cutting themselves off from the rest of the household with surly sullenness — their go-to facial expressions were dead stares. On TAR, they came alive. Jess was affably chatty and frequently quite amusing in her analysis of the show’s challenges and other contestants. Cody dropped his tough-guy deadpan much of the time, extolled his love for Jess to the cameras, and powered his way through many of the most difficult “roadblocks.” It’s hard to make the case that they did not deserve to win.

Nevertheless, there was a lot of grousing on Twitter that Cody cyborg-ed his way through numerous physical

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