The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is once again seeking nominations and expressions of interest for membership on the Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program Advisory Panel (P25 CAP AP).  DHS is providing the public with additional time to submit nominations because it wants to ensure that it has a broad and qualified pool of candidates to select from for the benefit of the program and its stakeholders.  DHS previously made this request through the Federal Register (Docket No. DHS-2015-0041).  DHS understands that the previous notice may have provided insufficient time for some to obtain the necessary components for a qualifying nomination package.  The activities of the P25 CAP AP are expected to commence in fall 2015.

P25 is a standard which enables interoperability among digital two-way land mobile radio communications products created by and for public safety professionals.  P25 CAP is a formal, independent process, created by DHS and operated in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), for ensuring that communications equipment that is declared by the supplier to be P25 compliant, in fact, is tested against the standards with publicly published results.  The P25 CAP AP would provide a resource by which DHS could gain insight into the collective interest of organizations that procure P25-compliant equipment and a resource in DHS's continuing to establish the policies of the P25 CAP along with assisting the DHS Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC) in the administration of the Program.

OIC Notice