United States Army Garrison At Heidelberg Germany Chooses Desktop Alert For Base Wide Mass Notification

CHATHAM, NJ -- October 17th, 2007 -- Desktop Alert, Inc. (http://www.desktopalert.net) today announced the company has been selected by The United States Army Garrison in Heidelberg Germany as the base mass notification platform of choice.

U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern is the Army’s installation support organization in Kaiserslautern, Germany; a city hosting the largest presence of American armed forces outside of the United States. The area includes Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, 21st Theater Support Command, Ramstein Air Force Base and is also home to the headquarters for the Defense Commissary Agency Europe. The community also has the only joint German American Community office in Germany staffed by representatives from the Army, Air Force, and City of Kaiserslautern. ( source: http://www.kaiserslautern.army.mil/sites/local/ )

Desktop Alert provides U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern state-of-the-art network-centric emergency notification system to provide base-wide emergency notification using the base’s existing Internet Protocol (IP) network. The procurement and deployment followed a successful presentation of Desktop Alerts' notification offerings across Europe to high profile U.S. Military installations.

The alerts appear as pre-defined or on-the-fly pop-up windows which force immediate attention to workstation receiving the message with instructions for the action(s) to be taken. A video, audio, image and or  textual alert automatically sound/appear over the computer’s monitor and speakers. Alerts are received base-wide within an average of one minute after the alert is sent.

U.S. Army Garrison's emergency alert system operates via Desktop Alerts Web-based administrative interface. Using this web-based console, administrators OR moderators may publish alerts from any computer connected to the base’s network.

"The selection by The United States Army Garrison at Heidelberg is our company's latest sale to the U.S. Army following our prestigious selection by The United States Military Academy at West Point.  Above and beyond desktop alerting, Desktop Alert provides Department of Defense facilities with advanced critical features such as surveillance videos, training videos, XMPP instant messaging, live video conferencing and more to any workstation with a single mouse click.  It is these additional feature capabilities that both provide the garrison with the industry's most advanced state-of-the-art alerting platform as well as distance Desktop Alert from all other providers of like systems.", said Howard Ryan, president and CEO of Desktop Alert Inc.

About Desktop Alert, Inc.

CONTACT:
Howard Ryan
Desktop Alert
346 Main Street
Chatham, NJ 07928
FAX. 866-689-9838
PHONE. : 866-689-9838
Website:  http://www.desktopalert.net/