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“In Volume
the past,
25 new certification applica-
tions or renewals took well over a year
and often times resulted in customers
being limited in their ability to purchase
the requirement from a wider spectrum
of mass notification vendors.”
The Desktop Alert MNS platform is a ‘system of
systems’ which unifies inter-agency mass notifi-
cation system end-points such as public address
systems, e-mail, digital signage, telephone and
text messaging and more all within one con-
solidated secure Department of Defense (DoD)
web-based emergency operation center (EOC)
interface.
Desktop Alert is also on the DISA Ap-
proved Products List (DISA APL) and the
1st First Mass Notification System To
Complete USAF AFNet Migration.
2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Securi-
ty Awards Program
AST focuses on Homeland Security and
Public Safety Breaking News, the Newest
Initiatives and Hottest Technologies in
July 2018 Edition
Physical & IT Security, essential to meet-
ing today’s growing security challenges.
The 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security
Awards Program, is organized to recognize
the most distinguished vendors of Phys-
ical, IT, Port Security, Law Enforcement,
Border Security, First Responders, (Fire,
EMT, Military, Support Services Vets, SBA,
Medical Tech) as well as the Federal, State,
County and Municipal Government Agen-
cies – to acknowledge their outstanding
efforts to ‘Keep our Nation Secure, One
City at a Time.’
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