By Telecom Lead Team: AtHoc, a provider of network-centric emergency
mass notification systems, announced that the Air Mobility Command (AMC), a
Major Command of the U.S. Air Force headquartered at Scott AFB in Illinois,
will deploy its AtHoc IWSAlerts, an installation warning system.
The deployment will be done at eight AMC bases across the U.S.
through a contract with Reliable Government Solutions.
AtHoc IWSAlerts is an emergency
communications and mass notification system that provides personnel
accountability in a report documenting who was notified and when and if they
acknowledged.
The AtHoc IWSAlerts system is capable of notifying personnel
within minutes of an emergency from a single, centralized, web-based console.
The company said that the deployment will be via a cost-efficient, centralized
architecture, which will assure enterprise-wide consistency and reduce ongoing
sustainment costs.
The company also added that such deployments deliver benefits
like100 percent interoperability connecting all bases, ability to send
command-wide, base-wide or targeted notifications to all devices, Consistent
training and procedures or Concept of Operation (CONOPS) and real-time response
tracking and reporting for personnel accountability.
The installations will align emergency communications and alert
notification procedures across all AMC bases and provide reliable, real-time
notification in a more consistent fashion.
“This new contract represents yet another important
milestone in our long and productive relationship with the Department of
Defense and all branches of the United States military, and we are pleased to
be consistently selected as the market-leading provider of emergency
communications and mass notification systems to the federal government,” said
Mike Clark, air force account relationship manager for AtHoc.
The new contract provides the eight AMC bases a unified platform
for notifying and alerting base personnel across a wide variety of technologies
and end-user devices, including desktop alerts, e-mail, telephony (landline and
mobile) and SMS/text messaging.
Few months back, AtHoc announced a strategic investment in eVigilo, a startup specializing in
national-level citizen mass notification systems using geo-targeted
multi-channel alerting technology.
