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BlackBerry today announced that the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms Office (Sergeant at Arms) has awarded a multi-million dollar order for the BlackBerry AtHoc crisis communications software to power the Sergeant at Arms’ Joint Emergency Mass Notification Systems (JEMNS) over five years.

BlackBerry today announced that the U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms Office (Sergeant at Arms) has awarded a multi-million dollar order for the BlackBerry AtHoc crisis communications software to power the Sergeant at Arms Joint Emergency Mass Notification Systems (JEMNS) over five years.

Its critical for the nations political epicenter to be prepared with a unified communications system to swiftly and securely communicate in the event of an emergency, says John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry. "As the leading provider of crisis communication software to the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, AtHoc has demonstrated the ability to enable highly secure information-exchange for the worlds most demanding organizations. The U.S. Senate is joining more than three million US federal government personnel today in using BlackBerrys AtHoc software for their crisis communications capability."

The announcement today, marks the second large engagement between BlackBerrys AtHoc and Leidos, which also partnered to provide the US Army their global mass notification under the Emergency Management Modernization Program.

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