GRT Recognized for Innovation
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., May 18, 2007—For the second consecutive year, Global Relief Technologies, Inc. (GRT) has placed as a finalist for the New England Innovation Awards, sponsored by the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE). As one of 16 finalists out of more than 170 companies evaluated for the prestigious award, GRT has been recognized as one of the most innovative small businesses in the region.
The SBANE announcement comes on the heels of GRT’s nomination for the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) Region 1 Subcontractor of the Year Award, as well as its receipt this week of an Administrator’s Award for Excellence from the SBA. According to the SBA, GRT’s nomination establishes it as “one of the top small business subcontractors in the New England.”
“We are proud to receive recognition from SBANE and the US Small Business Administration for the work that GRT is doing in bringing cutting-edge data collection, analysis and management technology to first responders and field users engaged in disaster relief, humanitarian assistance and health monitoring,” said Michael Gray, GRT’s founder and chief executive officer.
“GRT’s proprietary system of data collection and management allows the situation at a disaster site to be assessed by decision-makers accurately and in real time. Decisions by headquarters to deploy life-saving resources to a stricken area can be made quickly and intelligently,” Gray said.
“A key benefit of the GRT system is its simplicity. Perhaps the most innovative aspect of GRT technology is that it is extremely simple to use in the field under any type of circumstances and in any part of the world.”
ABOUT GLOBAL RELIEF TECHNOLOGIES, Inc.
Global Relief Technologies, based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, provides a proprietary data collection and management service to help organizations involved in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance, homeland security and health monitoring. The GRT solution allows users located anywhere in the world to collect mission-critical field data on easy-to-use handheld devices and to seamlessly transmit that data on a secure basis to a virtual network operation center (VNOC). Through the VNOC, data is instantaneously aggregated and analyzed and made available on a real-time basis to decision-makers back at the contracting organization’s headquarters. Further information about GRT is available at www.globalrelieftech.com.
