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  • Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas Build Network for Oil Spill - June 29, 2010

    June 16, 2010 - Mission Critical magazine online reports, "Less than a month after the Gulf Coast oil spill, the U.S. Coast Guard could access a 700/800 MHz interoperable radio network featuring fingertip roaming throughout the Gulf Coast region.  Building off the Louisiana state radio network, Brant Mitchell, deputy director, Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, reached out to Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas to create an interoperable regional network.  "The really cool thing is now someone in Austin, Texas, can communicate over radio to someone in Pensacola, Florida", Mitchell said.  "We think it's the largest self-sustaining radio network in the country."

    Click here to learn how these states connected.
  • House Panel Includes $50M in Funding for Interoperability Grant Program - June 26, 2010

    Jun 25, 2010 - (Courtesy Paul Kirby, TR Daily) The House Appropriations Committee's homeland security subcommittee late yesterday approved by voice vote a fiscal year 2011 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security that includes $50 million for the Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program (IECGP).
  • ANS Approves Channel Naming Standard - June 23, 2010

    June 17, 2010 - The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) today announced the approval of the American National Standard (ANS) to ensure national consistency of interoperability on related radio channels (APCO/NPSTC ANS 1.104.1-2010: Nomenclature for the Public Safety Interoperability Channels).
  • ANSI Approves Channel Naming Standard - June 20, 2010

    June 17, 2010 - The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) today announced the approval of the American National Standard (ANS) to ensure national consistency of interoperability on related radio channels (APCO/NPSTC ANS 1.104.1-2010: Nomenclature for the Public Safety Interoperability Channels).
Press Releases - 2009
  • NPSTC Opposes Reallocation of Public Safety 700 MHz Broadband Spectrum - October 30, 2009

    Twelve of the 13 public safety associations participating in the September 15, 2009, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) Governing Board meeting opposed a National Emergency Number Association (NENA proposal to reallocate the current Public Safety 700 MHz Broadband spectrum to commercial use and auction that spectrum and the D Block spectrum as well.
  • DHS Provides Details on U.S./Mexican Border Network - September 23, 2009

    September 23, 2009
    by Sandra Wendelken, Editor

    Earlier this month, the U.S. departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and State and the Mexican government announced a new cross-border public-safety communications network. The network provides a formal agreement to enhance an earlier communications strategy between the two countries established in 2007 (see “The Border, La Frontera” in the November/December 2007 issue of MissionCritical Communications).
  • NPSTC Urges P25 CAP to Enforce Conformance Standards in Approved Labs - September 16, 2009

    The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) voted yesterday to call upon the P25 Compliance Assessment Program (CAP) to implement and enforce conformance standards tests as part of the CAP process and to only allow testing in approved labs, following reports that vendors are balking at conformance testing and are suggesting that testing outside of approved labs be allowed as an alternative process.
  • US and Mexico Announce Agreement for Cross Border Public Security Communications Network - September 02, 2009

    WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY — September 2, 2009 — The Departments of Homeland Security and State announced today that senior officials on the United States-Mexico High-Level Consultative Commission on Telecommunications (HLCC) have signed a bilateral telecommunications agreement to support a new cross border communications network for public safety and law enforcement organizations focused on strengthening border security.
  • NPSTC Broadband Task Force Deserves Kudos - August 27, 2009

    [Urgent Communications, Aug 27, 2009, by Donny Jackson] Yesterday, the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council’s broadband task force announced the completion of its final draft of a report designed to outline required — and desired — characteristic to be included in a 700 MHz national broadband network for interoperable public-safety use.
  • Commerce Dept Asks Congress to Extend PSIC Grant Performance by 2 Years - August 04, 2009

    The Commerce Department has sent Congress draft legislation that would give public safety agencies up to 2 more years to complete their Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) Grant Program projects.  Responding to the short timeframes allowed to complete PSIC projects, Commerce General Counsel Cameron Kerry sent draft legislation to the Congressional leadership in late July asking for the PSIC extension from September 2010 to 2012.
  • NPSTC Approves 700 MHz BBTF Final Report - September 15, 2009
  • Attend Broadband Task Force Meeting at APCO - July 31, 2009
  • APCO and NPSTC Seek Comments on Addition to Draft Channel Naming Standard - February 9, 2010
  • NPSTC to Develop 700 MHz Requirements - June 12, 2009
  • Join 700 MHz Broadband Network Requirements Task Force - June 12, 2009
  • NPSTC Celebrates DTV Arrival - June 11, 2009
  • NPSTC Endorses LTE Standard - June 10, 2009
  • Discussion of Requirements for Broadband - June 3, 2009
  • 470-512 MHz Petition for Rulemaking - Request for Comments - May 22, 2009
  • OIC Announces Approval of 8 Labs for P25 CAP - May 6, 2009
  • PSST and Cyren Call End Advisory Relationship - March 6, 2009
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