[SatNews] This new contract will find the Company working with BOP in managing resources...

Fleet Management Solutions® (FMS), a provider of advanced telematics systems, has been selected by the U.S. Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to equip its fleet vehicles and other mobile assets, with their Fleet Director Global® Iridium-based vehicle tracking and mobile resource management system. As specified by the BOP, all mobile assets must be monitored and tracked 24/7/365 with no interruptions in two-way communications and/or coverage, have specialized security features ensuring the safety of personnel, and comprehensive data reporting at frequency intervals determined by its operations management. FMS' flagship solution, Fleet Director Global, uses the Iridium satellite network for continuous communications and network services around the clock. The Iridium network is the largest and only fully-meshed, secure satellite constellation in the world, making FMS ideal for meeting the unique and stringent requirements of the BOP.

The BOP consists of 117 institutions, six regional offices, a Central Office (headquarters), two staff training facilities, and 22 community corrections offices dispersed across the continental U.S., operating a range of specialty law enforcement and administrative vehicles. The FMS solution provides continuous location, direction, speed, and mission critical intelligence, including information combined with vehicle data such as engine activity, idle and stop data durations, all to ensure every asset's location and status is monitored and known, on demand, at any time, all of the time, regardless of geography or topography. In addition, two-way text communications via all-satellite in-cab message terminals between drivers and dispatch provide a robust, efficient and easy to use and reliable method for directing resources and responding to situations that may be urgent. Indication of an emergency may be communicated via alerts to any text enabled device via the in-cab "panic button" or message display terminal – a mandatory feature required by the BOP. All panic-button messages use the highly reliable Iridium satellite communication network and are delivered via FMS Fleet Director Global in near real-time. Complete history of data will also be available and readily accessible at a moment's notice.