ERT Awarded 3-Year Contract to Provide Google's Cloud-based Services for NOAA's Unified Messaging Service
ERT to Transition 25,000 NOAA Users to Google Apps for Government Email and Collaboration Solution
Laurel, MD, June 13, 2011 – Earth Resources Technology, Inc. (ERT) has been awarded an $11.5M, three-year task order under the NOAALink prime contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to migrate NOAA's email and calendaring functions to the Google Apps for Government (GAFG) cloud. In addition to modernizing NOAA's messaging infrastructure, the contract will integrate Google's collaborative tools and facilitate synchronization with mobile devices to support NOAA personnel, contractors and associates located coast to coast, on the oceans and in the air. As the largest federal agency to adopt cloud technology to date, this award demonstrates NOAA's commitment to cloud-based solutions and supports the Obama administration's direction to pursue a "Cloud First" approach.
ERT, in partnership with Google, Unisys and Tempus Nova, will migrate NOAA's 25,000 users from their current messaging systems to Google's cloud-based messaging and collaboration service by the end of the year. ERT will also provide mobile messaging services for NOAA's 3,500 BlackBerry and smart phone users. NOAA will benefit from a single, enterprise-wide service for email, calendaring, contacts, built-in voice and video chat, real-time document collaboration, and collaboration site creation. ERT's objective is to enable NOAA's highly distributed workforce to access email, documents and data from anywhere, on any internet-connected device, allowing NOAA staff to share information and ideas more easily, with greater efficiency and with significant savings over traditional server solutions.
"We have a terrific team and are looking forward to partnering with NOAA to provide leading edge technologies that will enhance teamwork and significantly improve agency-wide communication and collaboration," said Dr. Jingli Yang, ERT's Chief Executive Officer. "These new services and capabilities will enable NOAA employees to work more efficiently and productively, helping them meet their core mission of understanding and predicting the Earth's environment."
About ERT
Earth Resources Technology, Inc. (ERT) is a woman-owned company of over 450 employees working in project and corporate offices located throughout the United States. ERT headquarters is located at 6100 Frost Place, Suite A, Laurel, MD 20707. Founded in 1993, ERT provides information technology, project management, scientific analysis, environmental, and engineering services to NOAA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, and various other government and commercial organizations. ERT’s core competencies in the area of information technology include: hardware, software and web architectures, design, and development; network, system, and database management and administration; data archive management; data acquisition systems design and implementation; IT security design and administration; network engineering; and help desk and end user services. For more information about ERT, please visit http://www.ertcorp.com/.
