CINCINNATI, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) received an order for 210 T700 engines to power the 96 Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopters for the Polish Armed Forces.

“This T700 engine is the engine of choice for medium-sized helicopters with its exceptional performance, reliability, and durability,” said Amy Gowder, President and CEO of Defense & Systems at GE Aerospace. “This order strengthens our relationship with Poland and expands the Polish Armed Forces’ GE Aerospace-powered fleet, which includes F404-powered FA-50 fighter jets, T700-powered Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawks, and CT7-powered Leonardo AW149 and AW101 helicopters.”

The engine order follows a cooperative agreement signed in August 2024 between GE Aerospace and the Polish Ministry of National Defense. Under that agreement, Military Aviation Works in Deblin (Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze NR 1 S.A. or WZL-1) will provide licensed MRO support for the T700 engines on the Apache as well as the Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk, and CT7 engines on Leonardo AW149 and AW101 helicopters that are in the Polish Armed Forces aircraft fleet. Military University of Technology in Warsaw (Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna or WAT) will manage training, including T700/CT7 engine training, for Polish technicians, military personnel, and WZL-1 employees who will support the helicopter fleet as well as preparing future engineering staff for the Polish Armed Forces.

The cooperative agreement between GE Aerospace, WZL-1, and WAT will sustain high-value jobs in Poland and provide new areas of engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) technology, training, and technical assistance for the defense industrial base, enabling Polish industry to support the Polish Armed Forces in sustainment of the Apache fleet. With these partnerships, the Polish Ministry of National Defense will have a full engine depot and engine training capabilities in country. These capabilities will ensure that the Polish Ministry of National Defense has supply security for all platforms powered by the T700/CT7 engine line. The agreement also paves the way for future partnerships in Poland on GE Aerospace’s combat engines like the F110, F414, and F404.

The T700/CT7 family of turboshaft and turboprop engines powers 15 types of military and civilian helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft with more than 130 customers in more than 50 countries. More than 25,000 T700/CT7 engines have been delivered and accumulated more than 130 million total flight hours. The T700/CT7 design has proven itself in the harshest environments, logging millions of flight hours in hot-harsh combat zones like Iraq and Afghanistan. In Europe, more than 1,300 T700/CT7 engines have been delivered or are on order for 20 European military and para-military customers.

The engines will be built and delivered under a contract with the U.S. Army through the U.S. government’s Foreign Military Sales process. In June 2024, the U.S. Army awarded GE Aerospace an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the continued production of up to 950 T700 engines in support of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and other government agency program requirements through 2029.

About GE Aerospace
GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) is a global aerospace propulsion, services, and systems leader with an installed base of approximately 44,000 commercial and 26,000 military aircraft engines. With a global team of 52,000 employees building on more than a century of innovation and learning, GE Aerospace is committed to inventing the future of flight, lifting people up, and bringing them home safely. Learn more about how GE Aerospace and its partners are defining flight for today, tomorrow and the future at www.geaerospace.com. 

GE Aerospace’s presence in Poland spans over 30 years with more than 2,000 high-skilled employees based at six facilities who are developing the next-generation aerospace technologies for defense and commercial customers. With a total of $700M in country investment since 1992 and an annual $50M investment solely into R&D projects, GE Aerospace is proud to remain Poland’s long-term strategic partner. For more information, visit us at www.GEAerospace.com

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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Could this be the year your fitness goals finally stick?

Speediance, the emerging leader in smart fitness, is bringing groundbreaking technology to CES 2025, promising to revolutionize the way we approach health and wellness. At the heart of its showcase are two flagship innovations: the Gym Monster 2, an all-in-one home gym that adapts to every workout need, and the VeloNix Stationary Bike, a spin-bike-meets-bike-trainer that redefines cardio training with electric motor precision. Both are designed to make world-class training accessible anytime, anywhere, with AI-powered personalization and a focus on safety and user experience. These products are part of Speediance’s vision to make home fitness accessible to everyone, enabling people to train like professionals from the comfort of their own space. But Speediance’s ambition goes far beyond fitness equipment. With an eye on 2025, the company is poised to expand its product landscape into a fully integrated ecosystem that merges AI coaching, health monitoring, and lifestyle support. The aim is to create a seamless closed cycle for users: Monitoring – Analyzation – Suggestion – Action – Monitoring. By incorporating AI with multimodal input, Speediance plans to deliver highly personalized fitness journeys, while the system records every action, tracks progress, and fine-tunes workouts based on real-time data. “Everyone believes AI will define the future, but the real question is: where can AI make the most impact?” says Liu Tao, CEO of Speediance. “We believe fitness is a perfect application. With large language models (LLM) continuously analyzing user data and our digital system recording every movement, we’re creating a comprehensive ecosystem that not only tracks progress but evolves with the user. This is the next step in revolutionizing the health and wellness industry.” Speediance’s vision doesn’t just stop at physical fitness. The company is looking to use AI to provide holistic lifestyle support, helping users achieve their best in both physical and mental well-being. By seamlessly integrating health monitoring and coaching, Speediance aims to be more than just a fitness tool—it will become a partner in users’ overall wellness journeys. Catch Speediance at CES 2025 and discover how technology can turn resolutions into results. This isn’t just fitness—it’s a revolution in health and lifestyle.

Exhibition dates: January 7th – January 10th, Booth Number: Halls D #55532 at The Venetian Expo, 201 Sands Ave, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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–   Moviynt, Augmex and Mentra will be providing hands-on demonstrations of their smart glasses applications

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of smart glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, is pleased to announce that the Company and several of its partners will demonstrate a powerful and diverse set of smart glasses applications running on Vuzix smart glasses at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show being held in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7-10.

Demonstrations at the Vuzix booth will include the following:

Warehouse & Logistics: Vuzix wholly owned subsidiary Moviynt will be showing its Mobilium platform running on Vuzix M400 smart glasses. Mobilium bridges the gap between mobile devices and ERP systems, including SAP, and provides a studio to empower the rapid development of new workflows for warehouse and logistics operations, which eliminate inefficiencies and capture data from business processes at all levels of the organization.Remote support: Vuzix partner Augmex, a one-stop-shop solutions provider for increasing productivity with smart glasses, will be showing its AUGASSIST remote support solution running on Vuzix M400 smart glasses. AUGASSIST, equipped with advanced features such as live annotations, artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) overlays, not only minimizes downtime by enabling companies to provide immediate troubleshooting and guidance, but also significantly reduces the travel costs associated with sending engineers on-site.Conversational AI & Assisted Learning: Vuzix partner Mentra, composed of a team of human computer interface experts from MIT, will be featuring its Mentra Merge conversational AI app and Mentra Link real time language learning app on Vuzix Z100 smart glasses. Mentra Merge is the superintelligent agent that improvers users’ problem solving, creativity, and conversations using proactive AI. Mentra Link gives users live language acquisition input, overlaid on their vision, during second language conversations, as well as translations, captions, and insights available at a glance.

“Vuzix’ family of smart glasses are the ideal platform to run advanced applications that will improve people’s productivity, safety, and general quality of life,” said Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix. “We look forward to working with our valued software partners to continue expanding the industry-leading solutions available for enterprise users and consumers alike in 2025 and beyond.”

About Vuzix Corporation

Vuzix is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of AI driven Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the enterprise, medical, defense and consumer markets. The Company’s products include head-mounted smart personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and augmented reality, as well OEM waveguide optical components and display engines. Vuzix holds more than 425 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the fields of optics, head-mounted displays, and the augmented reality wearables field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2024 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in: Rochester, NY; and Kyoto and Okayama, Japan.  For more information, visit the Vuzix website, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer

Certain statements contained in this news release are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward looking statements contained in this release relate to Vuzix Smart Glasses, our business relationships and future opportunities with Augmex and Mentra, their software and their customers, and among other things the Company’s leadership in the Smart Glasses and AR display industry. They are generally identified by words such as “believes,” “may,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “should” and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company’s beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company’s actual results could differ materially due to risk factors and other items described in more detail in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Annual Reports and MD&A filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.

Vuzix Media and Investor Relations Contact:

Ed McGregor, Director of Investor Relations,
Vuzix Corporation
ed_mcgregor@vuzix.com  
Tel: (585) 359-5985

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