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Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Standardizes on AtHoc IWSAlerts Across Entire Command
AtHoc Awarded Contract Through BAE Systems to Provide Centralized Emergency Notification System to 10,000 Personnel, With Future Deployments Reaching All BUMED Personnel
| Source: AtHoc
BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwire - June 23, 2008) - AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in
network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced the Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) has selected AtHoc IWSAlerts™ to
meet the emergency notification needs of the entire command. AtHoc
IWSAlerts will be the command's standard for emergency notification,
supporting all personnel. The AtHoc emergency notification system will be
deployed in phases, and the first contract to begin the roll out was
awarded to BAE Systems, covering deployments at Navy Medical Center, San
Diego, Ca. and Navy Medical Center, Portsmouth, Va.
BUMED provides high quality healthcare services to 700,000 active duty Navy
and Marine Corps members and to 2.6 million retired and family members. The
first two deployments will reach 10,000 BUMED personnel, keeping them
informed of emergency situations that impact safety and facility security.
BUMED is taking a command-wide approach to emergency alerting and
management. It will use a centralized AtHoc IWSAlerts installation to
support all of BUMED. Once the system is fully deployed, individual BUMED
installations will be able to alert personnel about installation-specific
emergencies, and in addition, command headquarters will be able to alert
all installations simultaneously when an emergency impacts the entire
command.
BUMED will be able to alert personnel via computers, mobile devices and
telephones, all from a single, Web-based console. Emergency operators can
log into the password-protected site, select a preconfigured emergency
scenario, tailor it or create a scenario from scratch, then send out a
consistent alert through all alerting channels. Alerts can reach all
personnel through redundant channels within minutes. The system also
provides a feedback mechanism, allowing the command to track alert
acknowledgements and responses from recipients.
AtHoc IWSAlerts supports military-grade security requirements. It has
received certification for the Defense Information Technology Security
Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP) and it can be integrated
with Common Access Cards (CAC). It also dramatically improves the process
of keeping alerting contact lists updated by integrating directly with
Active Directory and other user repositories to ensure contact information
is kept current.
Once the first installation of AtHoc IWSAlerts is complete, the command
will be able to easily expand the system to other hospitals and branches.
According to Andy Anderson, AtHoc's vice president of defense sector
operations, "By implementing a command-wide alerting standard and deploying
it centrally, BUMED will realize major benefits. It will be significantly
faster to deploy the system across the command, it will be much easier to
manage a single system versus multiple independent systems, and they can
deploy standard security protocols. In addition, emergency operators can
share best practices from one installation to the next."
The BUMED contract represents continued expansion in two key markets for
AtHoc: the U.S. Navy and military healthcare. AtHoc IWSAlerts is already
being deployed across four of the Navy's regional operations centers, which
will ultimately result in four hundred thousand Navy users having access to
the system. In military healthcare, AtHoc provides emergency alerting for
organizations such as Wilford Hall Medical Center, the Air Force's largest
medical facility.
AtHoc IWSAlerts is certified to work on the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet
(NMCI).
About AtHoc
AtHoc is a recognized leader in providing enterprise-class, network-centric
emergency notification systems to military, government and commercial
organizations for physical security, force protection and personnel
accountability. Millions of end users worldwide, in organizations such as
the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Hawaii State Civil Defense, U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office, Boeing, PricewaterhouseCoopers and eBay rely
on AtHoc's unified management systems for their emergency alerting and
critical communication needs. AtHoc has partnered with market leaders
including Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, Cisco, Siemens, Avaya, Unisys and
others to bring these notification solutions to the public and commercial
markets.
For more information on AtHoc, please visit http://www.athoc.com.