BURLINGAME, Calif., 6 Feb. 2008. AtHoc Inc., maker of network-centric emergency notification systems, was awarded a contract in support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Johnson Space Center.

The contract was awarded to GMRI through the 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, N.M. 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.