Alexandria, VA. - The United States Navy has officially designated the Previstar Continual Preparedness System (CPS) as the Navy Emergency Management Incident Management System (Navy EM-IMS). Previstar's CPS is being deployed to the Navy's 6 Continental United States (CONUS) Regional Operation Centers (ROCs), including 103 CONUS installations as well as the Commander's Washington DC-based Headquarters Installation Support Center (ISC).

The system's robust suite of capabilities will be used by Navy Emergency Management personnel for all phases of an All Hazards approach to emergency management including Preparedness, Response and Recovery. Naval Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs) Emergency Managers and watch standers will utilize the CPS as the daily use tool for all facets of incident management and incident support activities, both emergent and non-emergent. By utilizing Previstar CPS, the Navy will be compliant with the tenets of the National Incident Management System - Incident Command System (NIMS-ICS), as defined by the National Response Framework (NRF).

Previstar CPS enables the Navy EM-IMS to be the primary collaboration tool for resource management, multiple agency response coordination and situational awareness via interactive, intelligent maps, user definable forms and status boards. This enhanced situational awareness will promote efficiency and effectiveness when seconds count most.

Previstar's Common Alerting Protocol, (CAP) compliance supports the Navy's objective to develop and maintain EOC's with the ability to better collaborate with non-DoD response partners at the local, state, other service and Federal Agency levels. The 2009 CONUS deployment will prepare the NAVY for an ongoing global implementation into 2010.

About Previstar Previstar provides a suite of web-based, software products - primarily to the emergency preparedness and response communities, the armed services, and homeland security industry - for managing the incident lifecycle including planning for, responding to, and recovering from all hazards incidents and events.

Organizations have used Previstar's products to develop exercise and emergency plans, prepare for bioterrorism attacks, recover from hurricanes, and enhance nursing home preparedness. Web-based and easy-to-use, these integrated products enhance unified planning, situational awareness, strategic decision support, and tactical execution for users located horizontally and vertically across organizational boundaries.

Previstar's technology originated from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratories and offers the industry's only product, CEMPlanner, which facilitates the planning process and generates standards based plans.

The company is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia and conducts research and development activities at its facility in Knoxville, Tennessee.

For more information, contact: Joe Gordon, AVP Marketing Phone: 813-244-7774 Email: joe.gordon@previstar.com Website at www.previstar.com