Global Relief Technologies Wins Business Excellence in Technology Award

Business Wire, Nov 13, 2007

GRT's Rapid Data Management Solution Also a Finalist for High Tech Council Award

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Michael Gray, Chief Executive Officer of Global Relief Technologies (GRT), a data collection and management firm based in Portsmouth, was presented with the 2007 Business Excellence in Technology award by the New Hampshire Business Review. Additionally, GRT has been named one of five finalists for the New Hampshire High Technology Council's 2007 Product of the Year award.

The Business Excellence in Technology award recognizes Gray's development of GRT's groundbreaking Rapid Data Management System (RDMS)([R]), an end-to-end data communications system that allows field personnel in disconnected environments to communicate in real-time with decision makers. The Oct. 11 award announcement recalled how GRT CEO Michael Gray conceived the idea for his company while working as a refugee coordinator for the State Department.

"Michael Gray stood surrounded by 30,000 refugees in the Balkans during the regional conflicts of the 1990s as a coordination officer for the US State Department," the award announcement read. "And all he had to manage the immense need for resources was a pencil and a pad of paper. He knew there just had to be a better way. And, like so many entrepreneurs, he built that better way."

RDMS is also the basis for GRT's qualification as a finalist for the High Technology Council's Product of the Year. Finalist presentations are scheduled to be held today (Nov. 13) in Manchester, N.H.

RDMS enables field users - such as disaster relief workers, emergency first responders and military personnel - operating in environments with little or no communications capability to collect and transmit critical information over secure satellite or cellular connections to a web-based virtual network operations center (VNOC). On the VNOC, the field information is instantly aggregated and analyzed and can be viewed remotely by incident commanders or other authorized decision-makers, based anywhere in the world.

RDMS's mission-specific capabilities allow field users to input precisely the data they need based on their own operating requirements, and then presents that data in a format that can be configured to meet decision-makers' specific needs.

GRT's RDMS technology has been used by relief workers following Hurricane Katrina; by the Center for Strategic and International Studies to assess progress of the reconstruction of Afghanistan; and the US Pacific Command to track medical conditions, including potential incidences of Avian flu, in Southeast Asia.

ABOUT GLOBAL RELIEF TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Dedicated to saving lives and alleviating human suffering, Global Relief Technologies LLC is integrating new technologies to speed disaster relief around the globe. Utilizing the company's cutting-edge Rapid Data Management System (RDMS)([R]), emergency and relief workers are now able to quickly collect and transmit detailed information in real time from the field to GRT's Virtual Network Operations Center. The data is then instantly analyzed and made available to decision makers anywhere in the world. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Global Relief Technologies supports civilian and military organizations, including the American Red Cross, Raytheon, the Center for Strategic and Intelligence Studies, and the US Pacific Command. Further information about GRT is available at www.globalrelieftech.com