Fleet Management Solutions, Inc. (FMS), a local mobile asset management and GPS vehicle tracking company, recently completed the integration of the Department of Homeland Security Office of Detention and Removal (DRO) Vehicle Management Information Systems (VMIS) and FlyteComm Frontsight™.

Implementation of the FMS equipment and web services integration with enterprise applications is delivering the operational readiness, mission effectiveness and cost reductions anticipated when the project began one year ago.  

"The data being gathered from FMS for use in VMIS is reducing the overall cost of fleet maintenance and providing fleet efficiencies that enable us to meet federal mandates," said Charles "Chuck" Welke, DRO Fleet Inventory and Communications Unit. 

DRO uses Federal Prison Industries, known as UNICOR, to provide the baseline information into the Vehicle Management Information System (VMIS), which manages all DRO vehicular assets.

DRO promotes public safety and national security by ensuring the departure of all removable aliens from the U.S. through the fair and effective enforcement of the nation's immigration laws. 

The organization has installed the FMS GPS tracking device, which transmits position, direction, speed and other telematic data for user-specified events and reporting in more than half of the 4,600 vehicles within the DRO fleet. Data is sent through the Iridium satellite network to the FMS Fleet Central Web server, permitting dispatch centers to securely login and closely monitor the vehicles' location, movements and status.

"We understand the pressures federal agencies are under to achieve operational readiness and mission effectiveness while reducing costs," said Cliff Henley, CEO of FMS. "With this integration, DRO can combine real-time vehicle location, movement and status information with complementary mission critical asset management and tracking applications to enhance and streamline strategic operations."

Accurate and timely accountability of fleet assets is critical to mission success. With the annual cost of fuel and maintenance for the fleet at more than $20 million, it is an important area of efficiency improvement for DHS.

The integration project now provides FMS Fleet Central data seamlessly to DRO VMIS, which uses the AssetWorks enterprise asset management application to manage the entire population of DRO assets. 

For more information, visit www.fmsgps.com.