Research In Motion announced that the BlackBerry platform has now received Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) approval for operation on all wireless network standards supported by BlackBerry(x) including Mobitex, DataTAC, GSM/GPRS, Nextel and CDMA 1X. RIM’s cryptographic firmware embedded in the Java-based series of BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds has been awarded the FIPS 140-2 security validation by the U.S. Government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). FIPS validation is an important and often mandatory purchasing criteria for many government organizations.