Total Fire Group, a supplier of firefighter and EMS personal protective equipment, is extending pay differential and benefits for its employees on active military duty. The company will make up the difference between employees' regular pay and their military pay, and maintain all company-paid benefits for up to two years. This same pay differential will be extended to employees who have been on active duty at any time in the last three years…. RAE Systems assisted the anti-terrorism mission of German homeland security agencies by providing wireless and portable hazard detection systems solutions for the 2006 FIFA Football World Cup Germany Grand Opening Ceremony and Munich games…. Spartan Chassis Inc. will break ground this month on a new $14.5 million, 102,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Charlotte, Mich. The new plant will help Spartan meet increasing demand for fire truck chassis and fuel its entry into future specialty product segments, while also freeing up capacity for growth in its recreational vehicle and military chassis businesses…. Intergraph Corp. has entered into a global partnership agreement with Deccan International, a provider of decision support tools. The agreement enables Intergraph to enhance its incident response and planning solutions with analytical performance management tools from Deccan, including CAD Analyst and ADAM. On the tactical side, the integration of LiveMUM capability provides emergency response decision-makers with real-time information on resource allocation across their jurisdiction…. American Messaging, formerly Ameritech Mobile Services Inc., has completed its acquisition of the paging operations of Verizon Wireless, becoming the second-largest paging company in the United States with more than 1.5 million customers.