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QinetiQ North America and Numerex Win Contract Award from FEMA for Asset Tracking Services
Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX), a leading single source provider of secure machine-to-machine (M2M) products and services, today announced that it is part of the QinetiQ North America team that has been awarded a multi-year contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for full program management of Asset Tracking Services facilitating in-transit visibility within FEMA's Total Asset Visibility (TAV) Program.
The managed services will include provisioning of all asset tracking devices and supplemental equipment, providing GPS messaging services to locate tagged-assets or shipments, ensuring secure data sharing of data-feeds and messaging, delivering technical support for on-going operations and maintenance including continued integration with the Department of Homeland Security DHS\FEMA technical architecture, maintaining detailed account balances, and surge capabilities for disaster operations.
"We appreciate the opportunity to demonstrate the high-quality of our team's work. QinetiQ North America and Numerex have complementary experience and technical background, which bodes well for the success of our undertaking. We are very pleased to have been selected to support FEMA's TAV program, and are looking forward to Numerex's contribution," said Jim Graves, Senior Vice President of the Homeland Security Business Unit at QinetiQ North America.
"We are honored to have been chosen for this challenging and critical program. This award expands our collaboration with FEMA and underscores the quality and reliability of the tracking devices and services Numerex has been providing to this government agency for the last few years. It validates the strategic choices we have made in the areas of satellite technologies as well as information security, which is an important dimension of DHS programs," commented Stratton Nicolaides, Chairman and CEO of Numerex.
In addition to Numerex and QinetiQ North America, the team includes prominent companies in supply chain and logistics management, homeland security, and emergency management.
About QinetiQ North America
QinetiQ North America delivers world-class technology and responsive solutions to government agencies and commercial customers for many of their most urgent and complex challenges. QinetiQ North America is an independent, innovative technology provider that earns over a billion dollars in revenue operating with small company speed and agility while leveraging significant global resources. More than 6,400 QinetiQ North America engineers, scientists and other professionals have the mission knowledge and proven, reliable performance to meet the rapidly changing demands of national defense, homeland security and information assurance customers. QinetiQ North America is part of QinetiQ Group PLC, one of the world's leading defense and security technology companies. For more information, please visit www.QinetiQ-NA.com.
About Numerex
Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) is the single source machine-to-machine (M2M) product and service provider to some of the world's largest organizations delivering the foundational components of device, network, and application, used by its customers in the development of their M2M solutions. Customers typically subscribe to Numerex network and application services that are delivered through its hosted platforms. The Company's offerings and expertise enable its customers to efficiently build reliable and secure solutions that are used to monitor and manage assets remotely whenever and wherever needed, while simplifying and speeding up development and deployment. Numerex DNA(TM) offerings include hardware Devices, Network services, and software Applications that are delivered through its Numerex FAST(TM) (Foundation Application Software Technology) platform. Numerex is the first M2M service provider in North America to carry the ISO 27001 information security certification. "Machines Trust Us(TM)" represents the Company's focus on M2M data security, service reliability, and round-the-clock support of its customers' M2M solutions. For additional information, please visit www.numerex.com.
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