11:09 GMT, November 18, 2009 Bethesda, MD | DRS Defense Solutions, LLC. a wholly-owned subsidiary of DRS Technologies, Inc., announced that its Joint Tele-Medicine Network (JTMN) project team has been recently recognized, receiving first place honors, for outstanding service to American’s Warfighters by the DoD Chief Information Officer/G6.

The JTMN team is responsible for the design and installation of the Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems installed at military hospitals and clinics throughout Southwest Asia. The systems are used to transmit critical medical data from hospitals and clinics to medical experts for the rapid triage and treatment of patients.

This satellite based network gives radiologists time to review x-rays films in advance of patient arrival to higher level medical treatment facilities. With data reaching these facilities in less than 10 minutes, physicians are able to prepare treatment plans for wounded warriors before they arrive.

“We are pleased to have this effort and the people on it recognized,” notes Project Manager Elizabeth Snyder, who is with the company’s Technical Services Tactical Communications and Network Solutions unit. “The real satisfaction comes, though, in knowing that our work is making a difference by saving lives in the field.”

The First Place Team Award was presented October 28, 2009, during the DoD CIO Executive Board Meeting at the Pentagon.

The JTMN team consists of key military and government members from the Office of the Surgeon General, PM Defense Wide Transmission Systems, and DRS Technical Services employees collaborating from Falls Church, VA; Mac Dill Air Force Base, FL; Fort Monmouth, NJ; Germany; Iraq; Kuwait and Afghanistan. The team has been deployed throughout Southwest Asia since 2003.