Subject: [NEXTEL-1] DHS to start wireless pilot projects

From: Marcelrf <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:53:04 -0500

02/20/04

DHS to start wireless pilot projects

By Gail Repsher Emery
Staff Writer

The Department of Homeland Security will call for
industry to propose innovative wireless interoperability
solutions through a broad agency announcement to be
issued at the end of March, said Rick Murphy,
program manager for Project Safecom.

"We want to get the latest technology and innovative
ideas to do several demonstration projects for wireless
communications across all levels of government,"
Murphy said.

Murphy said several pilot projects proposed in response
to the BAA would be selected for funding, likely by the
end of 2004. He said the proposals must each detail a
specific public safety organization that would participate
in the pilot.

The department has found that one-third of local public
safety agencies, such as police and fire departments,
cannot talk with each other over wireless communications
devices such as radios in the field, Murphy said.

Project Safecom, one of 25 cross-agency e-government
initiatives, seeks to develop more effective, interoperable
wireless communications so that local, state, federal and
tribal public safety agencies can all communicate.

Murphy said he was not sure how much funding would
be available for the pilot projects.

He spoke to telecommunications contractors and federal
telecommunications buyers Feb. 19 at the Federal Networks
2004 conference in Vienna, Va.

 http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/22843-1.html

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