GTSI Spearheads Physical Security Alliance
15 March, 2004
category: Biometrics, Corporate
Alliance Partners to Display Select Mission Critical Technologies at FOSE
CHANTILLY, Va., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – GTSI (R) Corp. (Nasdaq: GTSI) announced that it has brought together more than 15 partners to form the Physical Security Alliance (PSA). The mission of this Alliance is to assist in developing an open, standard, secure, reliable, and trusted physical security protection system solution for customers of the Alliance.
“We view physical security protection as an essential element of the larger concept of Homeland Security Protection,” said Arpad Toth, GTSI’s senior technologist and PSA founder. “We are acutely aware that viable solutions for protecting our nation can only be developed and implemented through full collaboration between the private and public sectors. To that end, we have brought together more than 15 of our valued partners to concentrate on the task.”
Mr. Toth explained that GTSI is in a unique position to offer private sector assistance because of its partnerships with leaders of the physical security industry who offer products, services and complex integrated system solutions in the areas of force protection, homeland security protection, physical security protection, automated video surveillance, computer vision, physical and logical access control, identity management, biometrics, smart card, smart door, cyber security and weapons of mass destruction detection.
Through the Alliance, GTSI will function as a “one-stop-shop” providing: system consulting and advisory services; products, solutions, and managed services that offer the best industry-leading physical security and force protection; GTSI-branded PSP multi-vendor solutions; and system integration.
Dendy Young Chairman and CEO of GTSI said, “Over the past year, GTSI has brought its partners together to create branded solutions in areas including VoIP and broadband data communications worldwide, and storage. GTSI-branded solutions, such as the GTSI Agility(TM) mobile office have been used in Iraq, Afghanistan and on ships at sea. I am pleased that we are continuing this tradition, by now introducing GTSI SentriX(TM) that will be the trademark for all GTSI branded physical security protection products, systems, and services.”
“Our goal is to work closely with the best participants of the physical security industry and together serve our federal, state and local government customers. We want to be among the pioneers and leaders that help address the long term security protection mission of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense,” concluded Mr. Toth.
There are alliance members who serve as the property and site planners, physical architectural solution designers and implementers, and end-to-end physical security protection system providers. They are: DMJM Technology, ISR Solutions, Lenel Systems International and Equis Corporation. DMJM Technology is a leading architectural firm offering security planning consulting, security systems design, architects, engineers and construction services for high security building and physical facility construction. ISR Solutions is an electronic security systems integrator. Lenel System International, Inc. is a global leader in the development and delivery of scalable, integrated systems for the security market. The specialty of Equis is to evaluate real estate in 28 states, the D.C. region, and international markets suitable for high-security government and enterprises.
Additionally, there are Alliance members who provide a complete set of advanced security protection technology, products and services. Together, they form a critical “tool box” complementing the physical structural design and system architecture planning including automated video surveillance solutions, identity management system, biometric solution, data storage, communication capabilities, detection of weapons of mass destruction and much more. These partners include: BNX, Cisco, Defense Group Inc., Digital Persona, Griffid, Intel, NetBotz, ObjectVideo, Panasonic, Seneca, StorageTek, Trident Tek; and videoNEXT.
“DMJM Technology is proud to be a part of the Physical Security Alliance. As a provider of security solutions for over 50 years we have seen the evolution of systems from proprietary stand-alone configurations to TCP/IP based open architectures. This alliance is pushing the solutions envelope to the next level in response to sophisticated customer demands for fully integrated flexible systems that help them manage not only their threat information but also their response. It’s a privilege for us to be a part of the next wave,” said Bill Sewell, Sr. Vice President and General Manager of DMJM Technology.
“ISR Solutions is excited to be part of the Alliance. With more than 30 years of experience, we bring the Alliance a solid background in protecting our customers’ assets through best-of-class, state-of-the-art, electronic physical security protection technology. We look forward to combining our skills with the talents of other Alliance members to produce positive results for our customers,” said Joe Costa, President and CEO, ISR Solutions, Inc.
“The Physical Security Alliance provides our customers in the government market with additional avenues through which to purchase and deploy Lenel’s Total Security Knowledge Management Solution(TM),” said Elena Prokupets, President and CEO of Lenel Systems International. “GTSI is a proven aggregator of solutions for the Government sector, and Lenel is pleased to form the state-of-the-art technology foundation of this alliance with them.”
Various partners of the PSA will exhibit and demonstrate select key technologies in GTSI’s booth (#2803) from March 23-25 at FOSE, the nation’s largest technology trade show for government professionals. FOSE will be held at the Washington Convention Center.
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About GTSI Corp.
GTSI Corp. is an information technology (IT) solutions leader, focusing exclusively on Federal, State, and Local government customers worldwide. For two decades, GTSI has served those customers by teaming with global IT leaders like Panasonic, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems.
Offering a broad range of products and services, an extensive contract portfolio, and ISO 9001:2000 standards for quality management, GTSI uses its unique Technology Teams to deliver “best of breed” solutions that help government customers do their job more effectively. GTSI is headquartered in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C. Further information about the Company is available at GTSI.com/About.
