Purvis Systems Inc., which provides engineering and professional technical services to the public and private sector and has operating divisions in Middletown, announced that it has been awarded two contracts for a total of $35 million to provide the New York Fire Department (FDNY) with a new Emergency Reporting and Voice Alarm System.
The two contracts, according to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, will generate jobs in Rhode Island and also help enhance homeland security and public safety measures in New York City.
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Purvis will replace FDNY’s existing system with a more modern one that will provide updated communications between each borough’s central office and firehouses and will route all alarm box data to the department’s Dispatch Central Offices and Public Safety Answering Centers. The new system will also provide improved testing and monitoring capabilities for the fire department and services that will cover 15,000 call boxes, 321 square miles and eight million people.
As a result of these contracts, Purvis has created 15 additional engineering and technical positions in Middletown and continues to increase staff, the EDC said.
From its years of work with the FDNY and the experiences of Sept. 11, 2001, Purvis created a pilot program in Warwick and East Greenwich that is designed to provide solutions to address communications and data sharing that exists between public safety agencies. A major challenge they all face, nationwide, is the ability to communicate simultaneously at any one time. The Rhode Island pilot program, based on its success, could be marketed and exported to other states.
