XYBERNAUT AWARDED HARDWARE CONTRACT FOR ARMED FORCES WEARABLE/MOBILE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES.Xybernaut Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : XYBR XYBR Xybernaut Corp (stock symbol) ) has announced a contract award of approximately $370,000 in hardware to support the deployment of wearable computing solutions for three branches of the United States Armed Forces Used to denote collectively only the regular components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. See also Armed Forces of the United States. . Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy maintenance teams will utilize the mobile/wearable computing equipment for a variety of technical functions throughout the United States. Xybernaut's Mobile Assistant V (MA V) wearable computers form the foundation of the mobile/wearable platform. Additional components of the solution include Microvision Head Mounted Displays, MicroOptical Head Mounted Displays and advanced camera/optics technologies from Oxford Technology. Xybernaut will provide additional hardware components, as needed, under reseller agreements with these and other leading technology providers. All three of the U.S. armed forces branches acquired the hardware through Xybernaut's listing on World Wide Technology's (WWT WWT Wastewater Treatment WWT What Was That? WWT Warioware Touched (Nintendo DS game) WWT Warioware Twisted! (Game Boy Advance game) WWT What a Waste of Time WWT World's Worst Tourist WWT Wall Wash Test ) GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. Schedule. This order represents the first award to utilize Xybernaut's GSA Schedule procurement instrument. Additional Department of Defense and civilian government organizations are expected to take advantage of the availability of Xybernaut's GSA Schedule throughout the remainder of 2002 and beyond. "Xybernaut continues to develop wearable and mobile solutions for our government customers by bringing together the hardware and software applications to provide a total maintenance solution," stated Edward G. Newman, chairman, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Xybernaut. "Our goal related to this deployment is to provide an integrated solution that will increase the effectiveness and productivity of today's armed forces maintenance personnel. Along with our solution partners, we look forward to working side by side with the men and women of our military during this critical time in our nation's history." |
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