Fitch Ratings recently lowered its outlook on Honeywell International Inc. (HON) as it expects the defense contractor’s weak operating performance that began late last year to continue through 2009.

Lower earnings and cash flow have resulted in a leverage which is above normal levels for maintaining an “A" assigned to the company’s long-term default rating, unsecured bank credit and senior unsecured debt program. Fitch has an "F1" rating on Honeywell’s short-term issuer default and commercial papers.

Although the global recession has hurt the company’s short-term outlook and 2009 results, Honeywell plans to continue its investments to ensure growth when the economy rebounds. It intends to reduce debt to help limit the impact of weaker financial results on leverage in 2009. The company continues to target strong financial metrics to improve its financial flexibility and ability to maintain a solid competitive edge.

Honeywell had cash and cash equivalents of

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Suspect Detection Systems Inc. (SDSS.OB) develops various technology solutions for homeland security, military intelligence and law enforcement. The company was created by former Israeli security officials and experts who use their combined knowledge and intelligence of counter-terrorism gained in Israel and other parts of the world to develop security technologies.

One of the company’s first products is COGITO, a fully automated system used to scope out various settings and scenarios to identify malicious activity or intent. This innovative system works on its own, without human control or operation, to conduct interrogations that might otherwise take hundreds of man-hours.

COGITO uses cutting-edge recognition technology, including biometric and documentation verification features, as well as artificial intelligence techniques and algorithms, to weed through suspects to identify terrorists, collaborators, smugglers and criminals. Training for the operation of the system takes only two hours, and the system

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span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-weight: bold;”Authentidate Holding Corp (ncm: ADAT) $0.27/span- Authentidate is attractively positioned to benefit from the expected flood of spending aimed at modernizing healthcare IT. Remote patient monitoring, also known as telehealth, is one area where Authentidate stands to capitalize due to its unique and superior product solution. Patient home monitoring is expected to be a $12 billion industry by 2012. ADAT will earn $120M in revenue if it achieves just 1% penetration. This compares to $6M in revenue Authentidate earned last fiscal year. There are a decent number of patient monitoring devices deployed currently, yet very few have actual “telemedicine” functionality, whereby a patient’s vitals are electronically transmitted to the healthcare provider coupled with any patient instructions subsequently relayed back to the patient. According to an InMedica study, there were less than 1 million telehealth subscribers in 2008, yet that number is expected to climb to over 55 …