"Interoperability"
Initial Testing for Wisconsin County’s New Land Mobile Radio System Completed Ahead of Schedule
April 19, 2012Raytheon Company has completed ahead of schedule an important milestone in building Rock County, Wisconsin’s first interoperable communications system.
Read full articleDSS Completes Recording Interoperability Tests in Motorola Lab
April 19, 2012DSS Corporation (www.dispatchimprovement.com) successfully completed recording interoperability tests with Motorola’s Project 25 conformant Astro 25 radio system at the company’s Schaumburg, IL testing laboratories, utilizing the radio system’s MCC 7500 interface.
Read full articleTechnical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability Workshop
April 17, 2012April 23, 2012 / 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT / Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St, SW, Washington, D.C.,…
Read full articleFCC Seeks Nominations by March 7 for Membership on Technical Advisory Board for 1st Responder Interoperability
March 1, 2012By this Public Notice, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks nominations for membership on the Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability (Interoperability Board).
Read full articlePolice Radio Upgrades Coming
February 28, 2012TOM MOOR, South Bend Tribune (Indiana) SOUTH BEND – When dozens of police and fire departments converged on the World…
Read full articleAtlantic City Casinos Give Police Access to Surveillance Systems; Will Share Video, Voice, Text Via Internet
October 6, 2011ATLANTIC CITY — Police will soon have access to the casinos’ surveillance systems to help them fight crime in the Tourism District. By early next spring, all gaming halls will be part of Mutualink, a radio and wireless interoperability system that will allow law enforcement access to the closed-circuit televisions in each casino as well as hospitals and other public institutions. State officials said access to the cameras will help emergency responders in the event of a terrorist attack or other public safety event.
Read full articleA Decade After 9/11, Bay Area Emergency Responders Still Not on Same Radio Frequency
September 7, 2011Among 9/11’s most heartbreaking revelations was that the New York City police, firefighters and medical personnel who rushed into the burning Twin Towers couldn’t talk to each other by radio, leading to mass confusion and scores of unnecessary deaths. Yet a decade later, the nine-county Bay Area remains far from that goal.
Read full article9/11, 10 Years Later
September 6, 2011The 9/11 attacks fundamentally changed the way emergency services personnel think about and respond to acts of terrorism. Today, although Osama bin Laden is dead, terrorism remains a threat to the U.S. and the possibility of another event like 9/11 cannot be discounted. For those in public safety, this means rethinking the “normal” way of doing business and learning from the lessons of the past.
Read full articleRockefeller Pushes for Better First Responder Communication
September 1, 2011National emergencies require increased federal efforts to secure communications, especially among first responders facing problems ranging from hurricanes and earthquakes to terror attacks, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said.
Read full articleEFJohnson Awarded Order from Wise County for $1.5 Million Radio System
September 1, 2011IRVING, Texas – August 29, 2011 – EF Johnson Technologies, Inc., one of the nation’s leading developers and manufacturers of…
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