PAR Government Supports Colorado Emergency Management Exercise
May 18 2016 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
PAR Government Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR), announced they will be
supporting the upcoming Full Scale Boulder Wildland Urban Interface
Exercise, May 20-21 in Boulder, CO. Firefighters will use PAR
Government technologies during this exercise to improve the safety,
efficiency and effectiveness of operations while responding to a
large scale incident that involves multiple government
agencies.
PAR Government will provide geospatial situational awareness and
advanced collaboration tools that offer incident managers real-time
access to personnel locations, fire geography and movement, weather
changes and other critical information. Such advancements in
situational awareness are envisioned to increase safety of
operations during rapidly evolving situations that have previously
resulted in fatalities.
Wildland Firefighters will connect mobile devices to PAR
Government’s mobile adhoc network (MANET). They will use mobile
apps to improve field communications through text messaging, map
annotations, and geospatially referenced field reports, while
receiving graphical representations of weather warnings and alerts
over maps and imagery.
Employing these tools, Firefighters will collect field data and
submit it to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in
near real-time. NCAR will use this data to enhance their fire
behavior predictive analysis model and deliver hourly analysis back
to the deployed firefighters field projecting how the fire will
propagate in the coming hours. Combined with other real-time
information, such as infrared imagery, incident managers can make
better informed adjustments to their operational strategy for
attacking the fire.
“Our technology is addressing gaps in radio communications and
situational awareness, which are critical to firefighter safety,”
commented Matt Cicchinelli, President of PAR Government. “We are
now able to display and communicate the precise positioning of the
crews, plot the fire’s location and movement, and update evolving
escape routes, all while remaining abreast of changes in the
weather. These are game-changing capabilities with the real
potential to save lives.”
ABOUT PAR GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS CORPORATION
PAR Government, headquartered in Rome, New York, provides
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance solutions to US
Department of Defense, US Government agencies, and private
industry. During 40 years of service, PAR Government has earned the
reputation for developing high quality products ranging from
theoretical and experimental studies to operational capability. For
more information, visit www.pargovernment.com.
ABOUT PAR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
PAR Technology Corporation's stock is traded on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol PAR. PAR’s Government Business
segment provides solutions and products for the geospatial
intelligence community and highly-specialized technical services to
the Department of Defense and various federal agencies. PAR’s
Hospitality Business segment is a leading provider of restaurant
and retail technology. Visit www.partech.com for more information
or connect with PAR on Facebook at www.facebook.com/parpointofsale
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