Wednesday, April 6th, the Public Safety Internet of Things Working Group welcomes NPSTC member Bill Schrier for a presentation entitled "Seattle: Smart City, Smart Public Safety".  Bill is an active member with a long history in public safety communications and FirstNet.  Narendra Mangra from IEEE will also be presenting Part 1 of a two part presentation, "Smart Cities and the Public Safety Ecosystem", covering a wide range of topics including McX, PS ecosystem, architecture and enablers, networks and devices, interoperability and smart cities as well as some ongoing IEEE activities that include transdisciplinary approaches to roadmaps, smart cities, telehealth, and PSTI.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022
12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  869-9040#
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Dean Skidmore, Chair

Thursday, April 7th, the NPSTC NASEMSO EMS Working Group is pleased to announce that Barry Luke will be joining us for a special presentation "EMS Communications: Past, Present, and Future".  Barry has an extensive history in EMS and Public Safety Communications, as well as being the former Deputy Executive Director of NPSTC.

Thursday, April 7, 2022
1:00 p.m to 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  446 1830
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Paul Patrick, Chair
Charlie Fair, Vice Chair

NPSTC is continuing its role as trusted advisor to the public safety community and is announcing the re-activation of the NPSTC task group for Assessing Future Spectrum and Technology (AFST).  The AFST group will assess how the "digital transformation" will affect spectrum needs, technology, operations, and interoperability for public safety communications.

The Assessment of Future Spectrum, Technology, Operations/Interoperability and Public Safety Digital Transformation (AFST) 2022-2032 project will forecast changes over the next 10 years.  The previous NPSTC AFST task group published the "Public Safety Assessment 2012-2022, Technology, Operations & Spectrum Roadmap" final report on June 5, 2012.  The prior version can be found at https://npstc.org/npstcReports.jsp under Spectrum and is the starting point for the 2032 publication.  NPSTC is considering adding a fourth area for public safety communications as part of an IoT-enabled smart city.

To join in this effort, please send an email to the parent group at AFST2032+subscribe@groups.io and any or all of the sub-committees depending upon your specific interests.  Each group will send you a confirmation email.  You must reply to that email to complete the process.

Spectrum – AFSTSpectrumCommittee@groups.io
Technology – AFSTTechnologyCommittee@groups.io
Digital Transformation – AFSTDigitalTransformation@groups.io
Operations – AFSTOperationsCommittee@groups.io

The AFST steering committee met last week to discuss a work plan for the 2032 report.  Respectful of our members time and needful of a wide range of input, the committee chairs have agreed to add the AFST committee work to the already established NPSTC committee meeting dates/times to save participants a separate meeting when possible.  The AFST committee meetings will begin as soon as the NPSTC meetings have concluded.  The AFST Digital Transformation Committee meetings will be held following the NPSTC PSIoT Working Group's monthly meeting.  For those of you who are not already engaged in our committee work, the meeting schedule for each group is included below.

Interoperability Committee/AFST Operations Committee
4th Tuesday of the month
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern Time Zone
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Conference ID:  446-1830#
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John Lenihan, Chair

Spectrum Management Committee/AFST Spectrum Committee
2nd Friday of the month
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  446-1830#
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Don Root, Chair

Technology Committee/AFST Technology Committee
3rd Wednesday of the month
2:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
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Conference ID:  446-1830#
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Karen White, Chair

Public Safety Internet of Things Working Group/AFST Digital Transformation Committee
First Wednesday of the month
12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  869-9040#
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Dean Skidmore, Chair

There are so many changes happening in public safety communications.  We expect this will be a lengthy process (12-18 months) with a lot of input from the community, industry, government, academia and other interested parties.  As with all of the work in NPSTC, this effort is open to anyone who is willing to contribute and participate in the conference calls as this work is developed.  NPSTC is a transparent organization that welcomes everyone to the table.

If you have any questions about this project, please contact Marilyn Ward at (803) 960-4339 or email support@npstc.org.

Please join us for any of the upcoming April meetings.  The screen share link for all NPSTC meetings is:  https://Join.Me/NPSTCsupport1.

LMR to LTE Integration Working Group
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
12:00 Noon – 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  869-9040#

Spectrum Committee – NEW DATE
Friday, April 15, 2022
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  446-1830#

Technology and Broadband Committee
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  446-1830#

Cybersecurity Working Group
Thursday, April 21, 2022
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  869-9040#

Interoperability Committee
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  446-1830#

Broadband Emerging Technologies Working Group
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone
Conference Line:  510-227-1018
Conference ID:  869-9040#