(Baltimore, MD) – Governor Martin O’Malley will join Colonel Marcus Brown, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police, Ray Lehr, Director of Maryland’s Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee, Mark Moon, Executive Vice President of Sales and Field Operations for Motorola Solutions, and several other state and local officials to make the ceremonial first call on the Maryland First Responders Interoperable Radio System Team or “Maryland FiRST”, the new statewide 700 MHz radio system.

“Maryland FiRST” will provide interoperable communications to connect Maryland’s first responders on one secure radio system.  The ceremonial first call on the new radio system made by Governor O’Malley will connect to Maryland State Police at the JFK Highway Barrack in Cecil County, Maryland State Police Headquarters in Pikesville, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Kent County Emergency Communications Center on the Eastern Shore of Maryland

WHAT: Governor O’Malley Makes Ceremonial First Call on “Maryland FiRST,” the New 700 MHz Radio System

WHEN: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 Noon

WHERE: World Trade Center (near the 9/11 Memorial)

401 East Pratt Street

Baltimore, MD 21202