2014 Digital Yearbook of Homeland Security Awards
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GSN <strong>2014</strong> <strong>Digital</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Homeland</strong> <strong>Security</strong> <strong>Awards</strong> Recipients<br />
Vendors <strong>of</strong> Physical <strong>Security</strong> Products and Solutions<br />
Desktop Alert –<br />
<strong>2014</strong> Winner<br />
<strong>Awards</strong> Category:<br />
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Best Interoperable First Responder Communications<br />
Name <strong>of</strong> Nominated Product, Service,<br />
or Program:<br />
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Desktop Alert Inter-agency Mass Notification Platform<br />
Reason this entry deserves to win:<br />
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Desktop Alert provides early warning mass notification<br />
alerts to over 1 million federal, military and civilian hardware and burdensome configuration logistics. For<br />
personnel daily with ‘less than one minute alerting’ as the first time in the existence <strong>of</strong> Northern Command /<br />
certified by our customer base. After an extensive worldwide<br />
vetting <strong>of</strong> vendors, the world’s most crucial peace network alerting to protect over 25,000 personnel.<br />
NORAD, the entire command is now retro fitted with<br />
keeping organization NATO selected Desktop Alert! Buttressed<br />
by this selection is that <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Peace alert all 25,000 personnel in ‘less than one minute’.<br />
The system selected enables emergency operators to<br />
2012 selection <strong>of</strong> Desktop Alert. http://www.virtual-strat-<br />
The system is also integrated with the National Weather<br />
egy.com/2012/04/17/united-states-institute-peace-selects-<br />
desktop-alert-mass-notification-system#axzz3IbIAv3c4 severe weather event, all targeted personnel are alerted<br />
Service using the Common Alerting Protocol. During a<br />
Desktop Alert was chosen over all vendors in this GSN automatically without operator assistance in less than<br />
competition for the coveted mass notification requirements<br />
by NATO HQ in Brussels Belgium. Key in our on-premise phone system. With a single mouse click, in<br />
one minute. The system also integrates with the base<br />
selection by NATO was the platforms ability to operate seconds personnel are reached by e-mail alerts, desktop<br />
popups, text messages, phone calls and mobile<br />
on the customer’s existing computational infrastructure<br />
thus saving several hundred thousand dollars in both apps. The implementation has augmented emergency<br />
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