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NASA's Johnson Space Center Awards Contract for AtHoc Network-Centric Emergency Notification System
AtHoc IWSAlerts to Help Protect All 13,000 Personnel Across Johnson Space Center Facilities
| Source: AtHoc
BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwire - February 5, 2008) - AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in
network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced the company
was awarded a contract in support of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's (NASA) Johnson Space Center. The contract was awarded to
GMRI, a PC Mall Gov division, through their NASA SEWP (Solution for
Enterprise-wide Procurement) contract, and it includes AtHoc IWSAlerts
software licenses for primary and failover systems, as well as telephony
communication services.
Once deployed, the AtHoc solution will cover all 13,000 employees at the
Johnson Space Center's two main campuses located in Houston, Texas and Las
Cruces, New Mexico. The primary system will be deployed on-site at the
Houston facility, with the duplicate failover system housed at the White
Sands Test Facility.
The Johnson Space Center complex in Houston is comprised of more than 100
buildings across 1,620 acres. It is the location of the Mission Control
Center, which directs all space shuttle missions and activities aboard the
International Space Station.
"We are excited and proud to win the contract award to support the Johnson
Space Center," said Guy Miasnik, president and CEO of AtHoc. "This contract
provides further momentum for AtHoc's expansion of emergency notification
solutions within the federal civilian sector. It also strengthens our
position as the leading provider of net-centric emergency notification
systems for the federal government, with approximately one million
government employees now protected and hundreds of facilities using our
solutions."
The Johnson Space Center in Houston is home to NASA's human spaceflight
programs and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and
its international partners. The White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico
serves as a backup shuttle landing site and as the coordinating facility
for Project Constellation, which will replace the Space Shuttle program
after 2010.
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, 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.
About PC Mall Gov
PC Mall Gov, Inc., headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, is a rapid response
supplier of technology solutions for government and educational
institutions. PC Mall Gov offers 125,000 different products from companies
such as Microsoft, Apple, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. The company makes these
products available to federal agencies, state and local governments and
educational customers on a variety of contracts as well as through open
market and procurement card purchases. PC Mall Gov, Inc. is a wholly owned
subsidiary of PC Mall, Inc. (NASDAQ : MALL ).