Johnson Space Awards Contract for AtHoc Emergency Notification System

AtHoc, a provider of network-centric emergency notification systems, has been awarded a contract in support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Johnson Space Center.

The contract was awarded to GMRI, a PC Mall Gov division, through their NASA SEWP (Solution for Enterprise-wide Procurement) contract, and it includes AtHoc IWSAlerts software licenses for primary and failover systems, as well as telephony communication services.

Once deployed, the AtHoc solution will cover all 13,000 employees at the Johnson Space Center’s two main campuses located in Houston, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico. The primary system will be deployed on-site at the Houston facility, with the duplicate failover system housed at the White Sands Test Facility.

The Johnson Space Center complex in Houston is comprised of more than 100 buildings across 1,620 acres. It is the location of the Mission Control Center, which directs all space shuttle missions and activities aboard the International Space Station.

The Johnson Space Center in Houston is home to NASA’s human spaceflight programs and is responsible for training astronauts from both the US and its international partners. The White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico serves as a backup shuttle landing site and as the coordinating facility for Project Constellation, which will replace the Space Shuttle program after 2010.