City of New Orleans Picks Upp Technology
and IRMS to Streamline Emergency Response
August 19, 2009

Downers Grove, IL – The City of New Orleans Department of Homeland Security and the Fire Department have selected Upp Technology, Inc. to help improve the efficiency of their day-to-day operations. New Orleans chose Upp's irms|EM Emergency Management solution, deployed on the irms|GOKIT for a mobile inventory management system allowing the city to track inventory through the use of bar-coding at their warehouses and storerooms. Furthermore, the same GOKITs can then be redeployed to the field in times of emergency to receive and distribute cots, water, food, and other critical supplies needed in Emergency Response.

A self-contained mobile warehouse, the irms|GOKIT Mobile Logistics Platform supports the activation of distribution and treatment centers in as little as 15 minutes and maintains rigorous control of supplies. It provides complete visibility both upstream -- to command centers -- and downstream -- to field operations, allowing crisis teams to focus on the most important priorities. The system comes with options to record critical medical information such as lot control and patient-level information making it well suited for day-to-day Public Health initiatives, H1N1 responses, as well as natural disasters like hurricanes.

About Upp Technology, Inc.

Headquartered in Downers Grove, Ill., Upp Technology, Inc. is a global provider of IT consulting services, specialized software and innovative technology solutions to Fortune 500 companies, federal, state and local governments and businesses in nearly every major industry. With a dedicated talent pool of 25,000+ IT professionals and a suite of integrated inventory and resource management software products, Upp has been providing real business value to clients for more than 25 years. More at www.upp.com.