New White Paper: The Power of Automated Messaging for Emergency Notification & Business Continuity

San Francisco, California (PRWEB) November 20, 2014

The leading provider of Emergency & Mass Communication solutions, Regroup, has released an authoritative new white paper: “The Power of Automated Messaging for Emergency Notification & Business Continuity.”

Download Regroup’s paper by visiting: http://bit.ly/1xsOj57

This document is a must read for any organization that has ever experienced:

1. Critical and/or non-critical alerts being delayed, inaccurate or not sent due to human error

2. Severe weather alerts not being delivered fast enough during time-sensitive events such as tornado warnings

3. Loss of business continuity due to personnel not being alerted quickly to issues that caused operational disruptions, such as low inventory levels, IT related issues or power outages

Readers will learn how automated messaging can reduce the margin for human error, increase efficiency levels and productivity during day-to-day operations, and dramatically accelerate delivery of critical and non-critical notifications.

Through use cases, Regroup illustrates how automated messaging will empower organizations to:


Enhance employee safety by accelerating the delivery of emergency notifications and severe weather alerts by leveraging federal alerting technology including IPAWS and NWS/NOAA, resulting in a quicker response time.

Maintain business continuity by enabling appropriate personnel to receive event-triggered alerts like staff schedule changes, low inventory levels, IT security breaches and power outages.

Increase productivity and enhance efficiency levels by automating routine, day-to-day messages, freeing up manpower and reducing the margin for human error.

Easily configure automated messages to be sent to cell phones, landlines, email, desktop alert systems, digital signage, PA systems, outdoor speakers, websites and more.

For a live demo of Regroup’s Emergency & Mass Notification System, sign up here: http://bit.ly/1thO1Zq

About Regroup:

Regroup, the leading Emergency Notification and Mass Communication provider, offers easy one-click messaging to mobile phones (text/voice), landlines, email, social media, websites, and more. Regroup stands apart from other mass messaging systems with its ease of use, seamless integration with social media and client databases, unparalleled reliability and unlimited text/voice/email messaging.

To learn more about how Regroup’s Mass Messaging and Emergency Notification System can streamline your organization’s day-to-day communications, as well as provide rapid communications during a crisis situation, call 917-746-6776 or email inquiries[at]regroup[dot]com.







USNORTHCOM and NORAD Standardize on Desktop Alert IP-Based Mass Notification System, Win Platinum GSN 2014 Homeland Security Award

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) November 21, 2014

Desktop Alert Inc. tThe” less than a minute alert notification platform “used by the US military and numerous healthcare and business organizations worldwide, today announced the USNORTHCOM and NORAD have standardized on the desktop alert notification from the platform and was recently named as recipients 1st Place Platinum Award “nofollow” in the prestigious 2014 GSN Homeland Security Award for implementation of emergency Notable – Federal / state or local on basis of the notification Alert Network Enterprise Desktop Level System.

United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM of) provides command and control over internal defense efforts of the Department of Defense and coordinates defense support of civil authorities. US Northern Command defends the US, the protection of its people, national power, and freedom of action.


Desktop Alert is now the norm in command of the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), a combined organization in the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for North America. Latest desktop alert the Desktop Alert emergency notification capability is now integrated with the emergency conference system for NORAD headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


Never before a military installation was such a powerful solution for warning and immediate and effective communication to headquarters staff, staff and visitors in case of emergency.


The US Northern Command has a double mission:

Conduct operations to deter, prevent and defeat threats and aggression aimed at the United States, its territories and interests in the area of ​​responsibility

As directed by the president or secretary of defense, provide support to civil authorities (typically a federal agency) in the territory defense operations, including consequence management operations.

Desktop Alert can contact thousands of computer users at their office and force them to click to confirm receipt of the message flashed on their screen. These unaudited are then listed on a report and / or sent as a “Target Package” to be automatically integrated contacted by other means such as email, sms, texting, smartphone, and personal safety device.


Desktop Alert Inc. is the official supplier of enterprise reporting system to the army and the National Guard of the air, and the Air Force Academy United States, the US Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, and Fort Rucker in Alabama. Desktop Alert Inc. is the largest provider notification based on IP to the US military worldwide, including Fort Hood in Texas.


“We are very honored to be declared the network filing standard at this crucial ministry of defense organizations. Critical decisions must be taken by the dynamic leaders of today who know best that they have to establish maximum awareness situation immediately during difficult events. The technology is a high priority to save lives, protect property and ensure continuity of operations in extreme circumstances. With a global mission Increasingly, this integration in a timely warning time on the desktop with the Emergency Conference System Network is a significant fortification building, “said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder desktop alert Inc.

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Desktop Alert provides a range of end-point integrations with clients of public address systems (voice Giant), intercom systems, commanders channels, platforms, email, and DSN-based telephony and SMS cloud-based systems, desktop alert popups network alerts National Weather Service postcode based, digital signage, Cable TV, many social media, warning the CAP server, sensors to external systems such as temperature devices and fire alarm systems.

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Headquarters U.S. National Guard Bureau at Arlington Hall Virginia Standardizes on Desktop Alert Notification System

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) November 14, 2014

Desktop Alert Inc., the industry leader in ‘less than one minute’ network-centric mass warning notification systems (MWNS) to military, government, healthcare, higher education and industrial organizations, today announced that Headquarters U.S. National Guard Bureau at Arlington Hall Virginia has standardized on the Desktop Alert Notification System.

The Facility serves the Army Readiness Center and the NGB Headquarter Staff. Recently the National Guard Bureau Joint Staff including both Air National Guard and Army National Guard personnel relocated to Arlington Hall. Personnel are now further protected by the Desktop Alert System’s integration with the Fire Safety and Alarm systems.

Desktop Alert can contact thousands of computer users at their desktop and require them to click to confirm receipt of the message flashed on their screen. Those not verified are then listed on a report and/or sent as an integrated “Target Package” to be automatically contacted by other means such as email, sms, texting, smartphone, and personal safety devices.

National Guard Bureau is a channel of communications between the states and the Departments of the Army and the Air Force. For more than 80 years the National Guard Bureau has experienced many changes and important historical events, most notably four wars, the post-World-War-II reorganization of the National Guard, and the creation of a separate Air Force.

Today, the mission of the National Guard Bureau is to participate with the Army and Air Force staffs in programs pertaining to the National Guard. The NGB is responsible for administering programs for the development and maintenance of Army and Air National Guard units in the 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.

“We have served Arlington Hall since 2009. We are very honored that the National Guard Headquarters has finalized its decision and standardized on our mass notification platform. It is our mission at Desktop Alert to provide our customers with reliable ip-based notification systems capable of getting the message to the right people when seconds count. Our integration with Facility Fire Safety provides today’s military with the ideal notification solution for an increasingly challenging environment. It has been well demonstrated that Desktop Alert can deliver notifications at a higher rate of speed with fewer resources than all other notification capabilities previously used by the Department of Defense” said Howard Ryan, CEO Desktop Alert Inc.

About Desktop Alert Inc. http://www.desktopalert.net

Desktop Alert provides an array of end-point integrations with customers public address systems (Giant Voice), intercom systems, commanders channels, e-mail platforms, DSN-based and cloud-based telephony and sms message systems, network desktop alert popups, national weather service zip code based alerts, digital signage, cable tv, numerous social media systems, CAP server alert, external system sensors such as temperature devices and fire alarm systems.







Former AtHoc Department of Defense Mass Notification Expert Joshua Shipman Appointed to Desktop Alert Inc. Advisory Board

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) November 11, 2014

Today Desktop Alert Inc., the ‘less than one minute alerting platform’ used by the U.S. Military and numerous healthcare and corporate organizations worldwide, announced that the company has appointed Joshua Shipman to the company’s advisory board.

Prior to his employment at AtHoc, Mr. Shipman served in the United States Air Force as a Systems Architect at U.S.NORTHCOM and NORAD Theater Communications Coordination Center (TCCC) , NATO HQ AF SOUTH in Naples Italy, multiple Air Force locations, and subsequently deployed enterprise ip-based mass notification systems at AETC, ACC, AMC, PACAF, Patrick AFB, Eielson, Elmendorf, Joint Base San Antonio as an employee of AtHoc.com. While employed at AtHoc Mr. Shipman oversaw enterprise deployments and ongoing operations for all AtHoc USAF MNS systems. Mr. Shipman also managed MNS deployments at Army Corps of Engineers, TRANSCOM, and numerous other deployments.

“Desktop Alert is pleased with the addition of Mr. Shipman to our advisory board. His wealth of experience and knowledge insures that Desktop Alert will not only remain competitive in the federal sector and beyond but also bolster our companies overall value proposition to all markets,” said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

“I am honored by the appointment to the Desktop Alert advisory board,” said Mr. Shipman.

“After careful evaluation it was clear to me that Desktop Alert brings a simplistic approach to offering a state-of-the-art notification capability at an affordable cost. When notifying users seconds count. What is most critical is reliability, ease of use, and delivery time. In a DoD environment the system must also be able to operate in unique, secure, network environments and not be easily susceptible to failure when changes occur within those environments. Desktop Alert’s solution to Mass Notification encompasses all of these things and more. I am honored to partner with Desktop Alert and look forward to contributing to their continued success in bringing an affordable and reliable notification capability to DoD and beyond,” Shipman added.

“When lives are at stake, second’s count. Desktop Alert is the only known DoD vendor with a 10 second poll rate capability for network alerting beit a on-premise or cloud-based deployment of our notification system. A five year review of our DoD client reports indicate 99% of all network alerts were and continue to be received in less than 60 seconds with a bulk of the alerts being received in under 30 seconds. Latency-based network alerts introduce the risk of failure to all missions. We hang our technological hat on the speed of the alerts delivery, the speed of the alerts receipt and doing so with little to no deprecation of the networks bandwidth,” said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

About Desktop Alert Inc. http://www.desktopalert.net

Desktop Alert provides an array of end-point integration’s with customers public address systems (Giant Voice), intercom systems, commanders channels, e-mail platforms, DSN-based and cloud-based telephony and sms message systems, network desktop alert popups, national weather service zip code based alerts, digital signage, cable tv, numerous social media systems, CAP server alert, external system sensors such as temperature devices and fire alarm systems.







U.S. Army Expands Usage of Desktop Alert Notification System at Task Force Strike! and U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)

Chatham, New Jersey (PRWEB) November 03, 2014

Today Desktop Alert Inc., the ‘less than one minute alerting platform’ used by the U.S. Military and numerous healthcare and corporate organizations worldwide, announced that the U.S. Army has continued to expand usage of the Desktop Alert Mass Notification platform both home and abroad with deployments in Afghanistan as well as at Fort Bragg. The same deployment is now in operation at Northern Command/NORAD Enterprise.

Task Force Strike is a US-led task force in the central and Eastern regions of Afghanistan. Task Force Strike comprises the US 2nd Brigade Combat Team, US 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) (United States), from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Task Force Strike operates under the Combined Joint Task Force 10/RC East. TF Strike is responsible for the train and advise mission for the 201st ANA Corps in the North of Kabul portion of Eastern Afghanistan and serve as Train, advise & Assist Command North East.

The United States Army Special Operations Command (Airborne) (USASOC) is the command charged with overseeing the various special operations forces of the United States Army and is the largest component of the United States Special Operations Command. Its mission is to organize, train, educate, man, equip, fund, administer, mobilize, deploy and sustain Army special operations forces to successfully conduct worldwide special operations.

“Crucial in the selection process was our platforms very unique ability to deliver network alerts in seconds as opposed to minutes with both low bandwidth consumption and a zero need for expansion of hardware and system configurations. Our notification platform runs on the customers’ existing computational infrastructure and never requires an on-site install engineer. These installs were completed over the phone in a few hours start to finish. Lastly, the sustainment costs are historically low when compared to all known and approved DoD MNS alternatives”, said Howard Ryan, Founder and CEO Desktop Alert Inc.

Desktop Alert is an approved U.S. Army Leidos / EM2P Emergency Notification Platform. Desktop Alert has been selected as the primary network alerting platform at:


Northern Command/NORAD Enterprise
National Guard (ARMY and ANG Enterprise)
Fort Hood
Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center
Fort Gordon
Fort Bragg Special Operations Command
TF Strike Afghanistan
MRAP Units Afghanistan
Fort Campbell
Fort Knox
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leonard Wood
GLWACH
Fort Rucker
Fort Polk
The United States Military Academy (USMA)
Keller Hospital at West Point (KOCH)
Notable Mention: All FEMA HQ locations nationwide
And numerous other U.S. Army locations locations

“When lives are at stake, second’s count. Desktop Alert is the only known DoD vendor with a 10 second poll rate capability for network alerting beit a on-premise or cloud-based deployment of our notification system. A five year review of our DoD client reports indicate 99% of all network alerts were and continue to be received in less than 60 seconds with a bulk of the alerts being received in under 30 seconds. Latency-based network alerts introduce the risk of failure to all missions. We hang our technological hat on the speed of the alerts delivery, the speed of the alerts receipt and doing so with little to no deprecation of the networks bandwidth” said Howard Ryan, CEO and Founder Desktop Alert Inc.

About Desktop Alert Inc. http://www.desktopalert.net

Desktop Alert provides an array of end-point integrations with customers public address systems (Giant Voice), intercom systems, commanders channels, e-mail platforms, DSN-based and cloud-based telephony and sms message systems, network desktop alert popups, national weather service zip code based alerts, digital signage, cable tv, numerous social media systems, CAP server alert, external system sensors such as temperature devices and fire alarm systems.







New Instant Notification System App for Bomb Squad Response and Investigation Now Available for Download

Randolph, Vermont (PRWEB) June 04, 2013

The TSWG IED Instant Notification App (INS) is now available free to all United States bomb technicians. The App designed by the Force Protection product group of Applied Research Associates was unveiled during the April gathering of the National Bomb Squad Advisory Board (NBSCAB), as well as to representatives from the ATF, FBI, DHS, DoD, and the Technical Support Working Group (TSWG). The App will also be on display at the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) Training Conference and Expo June 10-14 in Dallas, Texas.

The INS App provides a way for bomb technicians responding to a suspect device or vehicle to share relevant information with fellow bomb squads while en-route or at the incident site. Information can be updated with a few clicks on a smartphone dropdown menu upon resolution of the incident or during ongoing investigations. The launch of this App represents the first time in the history of U.S. bomb disposal that bomb technicians have been able to share threat, incident, and device information instantaneously.

“Enabling consistent communication is a challenge that our bomb squads face daily.” said Dr. Ed Bundy, Program Manager for Improvised Device Defeat at the Technical Support Working Group. “The INS App provides bomb technicians the ability to quickly and efficiently share information while remaining focused on their real mission, which is dealing with the device and returning the scene to normalcy. Rather than having to answer their phone in the middle of an incident to field questions, the App makes their smartphone work for them, pushing out relevant information to those who really need it. The day will soon be over where bomb technicians on the East Coast only find out about an incident on the West Coast days later, and only because it made the nightly news.”

There are currently 467 active bomb squads in the United States. TSWG has licensed the INS App for download by every certified Public Safety Bomb Technician and NBSCAB account user. The App is now available for download on the Google Play store, and will be available for download on the iPhone in June. The App allows users to define in what geographic area they receive alerts, over what period of time, with what other squads they want to collaborate (mutual aid with other agencies), and what additional information (event category, event location, instant messaging notes, etc.) they wish to share. INS supports not only the teams directly involved in a response by providing a consistent electronic record of incidents and events, but also notifies the Bomb Arson Tracking System (BATS) database, making this information more readily available to investigators nationwide.

“As more smartphones make their way into the hands of our first responders, we’re focused on delivering technology that streamlines processes to save time and lives,” said Matthew Fordham, ARA Unmanned Systems and Security Products Group Leader. “Bomb technicians nationwide can now download and use the INS App to improve their fast paced inter-team communication and ongoing bomb squad community sharing of information.”

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ARA Force Protection is the leader in providing fixed, mobile, and aerial perimeter and situational awareness solutions for military, first responder, critical personnel, commercial assets and property. The company serves multiple branches of the U.S. military and coalition forces, first responder police, fire, SWAT and bomb squads as well as security services at a variety of critical infrastructure locations.

Since 1995, ARA Force Protection has delivered leading-edge security and reconnaissance products and services to military and civilian customers worldwide. Their products and systems scale from providing mobile high-value target protection to large scale facility intrusion detection. Many are available through the GSA schedule.

ARA Force Protection products are developed by Applied Research Associates (ARA), headquartered in Albuquerque, NM. Founded in 1979, ARA is an employee-owned scientific research and engineering company dedicated to solving the most critical national security problems.