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Mobile Tactical Collaboration System™ Integrated with AdvanTraq™ GPS Now Available to BlackBerry Users for Anywhere Anytime Secure Access to Real-Time Situational Awareness
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MTCS running on a phone device had its first public demonstration during CEO Joe Ordia’s address to the Major Cities Chiefs Association’s 2008 Winter Meeting in Vancouver on February 5th. Acting as an incident commander in a fictitious all-hazards scenario, Ordia demonstrated, using mobile computers wirelessly connected via air cards, the collaborative command and control, common operating picture, and real-time situational awareness capabilities of MTCS. As he concluded the demonstration, Ordia pulled a BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition Smartphone from his jacket pocket that was already logged on the MTCS workspace, and passed it to the Chiefs while he continued to update the scenario and displaying these updates on the mobile computers as well as on the Smartphone.
“Supporting the Smartphone platform effectively extends the command & control situational awareness capabilities to the farthest reaches up and down the chain of command, enabling officers, commanders, and chiefs to have access to real-time Command Post information anywhere anytime,” said Joe Ordia, Chairman and CEO, Ordia Solutions. “MTCS has played a force-multiplier role in several high-profile deployments with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and fire/EMS departments. We have received numerous requests from our customers for this platform and we were thrilled with the positive reception from a number of the Major Cities Chiefs and their senior staff.”
First customer shipment of MTCS with BlackBerry support is expected in
March 2008. For more information on Ordia Solutions, please visit
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752-6252.
About Mobile Tactical Collaboration System™ (MTCS) & AdvanTraq™ GPS
Developed using industry standard Web 2.0-based technologies, MTCS is
the flagship product of Ordia Solutions and represents the next
generation of mission-critical, tactically-focused, easy-to-use,
intuitive, and web-based collaborative command and control solutions
for public safety. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, MTCS
enhances public safety officers’ ability to communicate and collaborate
visually and in real-time using tactical graphics, digital maps, and
shared workspaces. It facilitates the rapid sketching and development
of multiple pre-planned scenarios, one or more of which can be executed
based on real-time contingencies and at the discretion of commanders
and other senior leadership. The MTCS platform addresses the "5Cs of
Interoperability" for tactical commanders, operators and other first
responders - communication, collaboration, coordination, command and
control. This level of interoperability is a must for critical
incidents requiring multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary
response, and for the related real-world exercises necessary to sharpen
the tactical proficiencies of commanders and operators. As a
network-based application, MTCS provides access to authorized,
geographically dispersed team members to interact and collaborate in
the same “virtual” command post, using mobile data terminals or ultra
mobile handheld PCs connected via secure wireless broadband, or other
PCs connected to the secure network. Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ is the standard mapping imagery delivered with MTCS and customer-specific imagery can be incorporated.
AdvanTraq™ GPS is a portfolio of advanced tracking solutions for
personnel, vehicle, K9, and cargo that operates as standalone solutions
or integrated with and traceable through a Mobile Tactical
Collaboration System™ workspace. Integrated, AdvanTraq GPS and MTCS
provide tactical commanders and other senior leadership an
unprecedented level of real-time situational awareness of an executing
operation and its operators, significantly increasing operator safety
and accountability. AdvanTraq GPS employs GPS tracking technologies
from GLC Enterprises of Naperville IL. The versatility of the MTCS
platform enables it to be used by law enforcement, Fire/EMS, Search and
Rescue, and EOC personnel in a variety of command and control
scenarios. These include perimeter and border security; port and
coastal security; critical infrastructure protection; dignitary
transport and protection; timely, coordinated, and effective tactical
response to campus security incidents; SWAT operations; major sporting
event security coordination; man-made or environmental disaster
security response; multi-alarm and wildland fire suppression
coordination; real-world preparedness training and exercises;
post-incident analysis; and many other more routine public safety
activities.
About Ordia Solutions
Headquartered in Vienna VA, Ordia Solutions is the leading provider of
mission-critical, tactical, interoperable, collaborative, and mobile
command & control solutions for public safety. Founded in 2005, the
company’s mission is to develop, market, and support next generation
collaborative command and control technologies that enable public
safety leaders, first responders, and tactical operators, to
collaborate on day-to-day activities, to manage security operations at
special events, and to respond to environmental calamities or terrorist
attacks in a more timely, coordinated, safe, and effective manner.
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