The fact that Desktop Alert has been procured for usage in Contingency Operating Base Speicher Iraq, to bolster force protection has been announced by the leader in network-centric emergency notification systems being purchased by the U.S. Army today, Desktop Alert, Inc.

Formerly FOB Speicher (Al Sahra Airfield under Saddam Hussein), COB Speicher is a US Army Contingency Operating Base, was previously a Forward Operating Base but reassigned as a COB because of its size. Installations are located near Tikrit in northern Iraq. The base is the location of the headquarters of the Multi-National Division, North, (MND-N). It is named after a U.S. Navy pilot who has been Missing In Action in Iraq since 1991 when his F/A-18 Hornet was shot down by an Iraqi Airforce MiG-25 Foxbat, named Scott Speicher.

Enabled in part by information technology, into a competitive warfighting advantage through the robust networking of well informed geographically dispersed forces, now commonly called network-centric operations (NCO), Network-centric warfare (NCW), translates into an information advantage. A robustly networked force improves information sharing with desktop alert technology. The quality of information and shared situational awareness is enhanced by that information sharing. Collaboration and self-synchronization is enabled by the shared situational awareness, and sustainability and speed of command and these benefits in turn, dramatically increase mission effectiveness.

Desktop Alert is multi-media enabled mass notification platform used to deliver rich media such as live surveillance video, copy, music, images, interactive Flash files and other applications to desktops and other devices such as cell phones, telephones, e-mail and mobile devices. Message windows display images and links, text, play videos and even audio files.