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Newpoint Technologies Supports Arrowhead Win
DSTS-G, the Largest Small Business Procurement in DOD History, Awarded to Arrowhead Space & Telecommunications
Award-Winning CompassT Product Is Foundation for DISA Contract
SALEM, NH - March 26, 2001 - Newpoint Technologies, a leading provider of network management solutions and developer of the innovative and award-winning Newpoint CompassT software package, announced that it has been selected by Arrowhead Space & Telecommunications to support the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) with its communications systems.
Arrowhead is one of three firms selected for the Defense Satellite Transmission Services - Global (DSTS-G) contract, valued at $2.1 billion dollars over a 10-year period. Newpoint will assist Arrowhead in providing fixed and global satellite services for all government agencies (air, sea and land) that need satellite bandwidth and related satellite-based hardware, services and applications. Engineering support, licensing and host nation approval, along with other ancillary services, are covered under this contract. These capabilities will enable the Department of Defense (DOD) to meet the government's commercial communications needs on a global basis.
"We are proud to have Newpoint's award-winning Compass and Mercury products at the heart of the network management systems that Arrowhead is supplying to the government," said Paul Houle, president and CEO of Newpoint. "Determining factors for Arrowhead selecting Newpoint were our products' scalability into very large applications, real-time performance and intelligent remote site management, among others."
Compass is a highly flexible software package with a real data-accessing speed advantage. The Compass real-time data server, with its special indexing algorithm, can support data updates (even within very large systems) in milliseconds.
Mercury provides management of unmanned remote sites with capabilities that include real-time performance, Web-browser interface, local logic, replication and dial-back connection on loss of a satellite link.
About Newpoint Technologies
Headquartered in Salem, NH, Newpoint Technologies is a leader in satellite
and network management systems for control of data, Internet, broadcast,
telecom and hybrid networks. Newpoint Compass is the foundation of Newpoint's
suite of products. Other Newpoint products include the recently introduced
Newpoint Pathfinder, which provides centralized audio-video router management
in broadcast facilities; Newpoint Eclipse, which provides automated carrier
line-up of satellite traffic; and Newpoint Mercury, a remote site manager
for satellite and network management systems applications.