October 15, 2009

EMW Helps NC3A Deliver CENTRIXS-ISAF Phase 1

Herndon, Virginia — EMW was awarded a contract for the delivery of the fully redundant network interconnection points between the NATO ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) network and the USFOR-A (United States Forces Afghanistan) mission network, referred to as CENTRIXS-ISAF (Combined ENTerprise Regional Information eXchange System-ISAF). The primary interconnection point is located at Kandahar Airfield and the back-up interconnection point at the ISAF HQ in Kabul.

This unprecedented effort was accomplished in a mere 4 months from authorization to completion, with final delivery on October 13th. With the advent of CENTRIXS-ISAF, electronic communication between NATO and US forces in the Afghan theatre could now take place in a seamless way, as though over a single network domain, transparently to the user. This information sharing—via emails, chats and VoIP telephony—uses advanced technology to provide a robust network satisfying the basic requirements for availability, survivability, and network re-routing following any potential outage.

With CENTRIXS-ISAF, other nations now have a model to emulate to connect their national networks to NATO networks. The completion of Phase 1 and the resultant creation of a shared environment paves the way for a new phase that will focus on the integration of applications and data across the new unified network.

EMW takes pride in our success in serving NATO on many and varied projects over the past several years.

About EMW

EMW, Incorporated, a Northern Virginia USA-based company since 1995, provides excellence in Systems Integration and Technical Services in the fields of Information Technology, Networks and Telecommunications to Government and Commercial organizations worldwide. EMWs’ vision is to deliver value added and technologically advanced offerings fulfilling all of its customers’ needs in the following core competencies: Advanced voice, data, and video convergence solutions; Network security solutions and services; Transmission media design, planning, deployment, and maintenance; Operations and maintenance support services and solutions for WAN/LAN, desktop, file/server environments; Logistics business processes and asset management products and services; Software development and customization services.

EMW, Inc. maintains Prime Contracts with the Government Services Administration (GSA) SB Alliant Contract Number GS-06F-0622Z, GSA Schedule contract number GS-35F-4931H, Navy Seaport-E Contract # N00178-07-D-5045, as well as a NATO Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA), number 9858, encompassing all of its product and service offerings. EMW has offices in Herndon, Virginia, USA; Mechelen, Belgium; Beijing, China; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.emw.com

About NC3A

The NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) is the lead NATO body for the acquisition and development of Consultation, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities in support of NATO missions and operations.

The agency is a customer funded agency and, as a part of the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Organization (NC3O), reports to the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Board (NC3B). The agency comprises around 700 staff, of which around 500 are located in The Hague and 200 in Brussels. In 2008, the procurement of NC3A for NATO amounted to some 300 million Euros.

For additional information, please contact:

Chris Roscart
EMW, Incorporated
13873 Park Center Road
Suite 225
Herndon, VA 20171

croscart@emw.com
Tel: + 703.273.5801