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Early Builders Advisory Council Member Jurisdiction Overviews November 2012

Early Builders at a Glance

Adams County-Denver Airport State of Arizona BayRICS City of Boston City of Charlotte City of Chesapeake District of Columbia State of Iowa State of Hawai’i LA-RICS State of Mississippi State of New Jersey State of New Mexico City of New York City State of New York State of Oregon City of Pembroke Pines City of San Antonio City of Seattle State of Texas FoxComm - Wisconsin Counties

Jurisdictional Diversity (8) States (5) Regional Entities (7) Cities

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County

Adams County Communication Center

Governance: ADCOM911 has met repeatedly with North Central Region members (Denver metro agencies) to solicit feedback on an effective model. Both ADCOM911 and the North Central Region members have recently completed the development of by-laws, policies and procedures for an LTE mobile data public safety network. ADCOM911 is also a member of the North Central Region.

Project Description: This 700Mhz LTE Public Safety project will provide secure, reliable wireless broadband service to all public safety agencies operating within the Adams County Communication Center and Denver International Airport service areas. Additionally, the project will interconnect multiple Public Safety Answering Points in the greater Denver area along with local school districts and multiple local governments.

(ADCOM 911) Contact: Bill Malone [email protected]

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Funding: Effort primarily funded through BTOP Grant Award, with matching funds provided by local agencies.

Status: All LTE equipment has been paid for, received and is ready for deployment. Pending STA application approval for an 18 site county-wide system, we will begin deployment within the next two months. We should have the system functioning in a test state by late Q4 2012, and ready for user interaction and testing by mid Q1 2013. Users should be able to use the system in production mode by late Q2 2013. Both testing and end user deployment will be completed using 10x10 spectrum.

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State of Arizona

Governance: Public Safety Interoperable Communications Office (PSIC) managed by the SWIC, Lisa Dee Meyerson, in conjunction with Public Safety Communications Advisory Commission (PSCC), made up of 15 governor-appointed members reflecting multi-disciplinary public safety and service agencies/organizations.

Project Description: Goals: Build a pervasive, robust and reliable LTE wireless public safety network which covers the vast majority of Arizona’s population, critical infrastructure and border regions while providing valuable communications and applications services for public safety and government agencies throughout Arizona with access to the National Public Safety Broadband Network. Solution: While performing our education and outreach for Public Safety, we’ll be leveraging the existing efforts in Education, Health and Governmental which also require backhaul and presenting a holistic approach. As a state, we are planning on a statewide conduit network based on public/private partnerships for fiber build out which FirstNet could also partner with.

Public Safety Interoperable Communications Office

Contact: Michael Britt, PhD Public Safety Interoperable Communications Office (PSIC) [email protected]

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ARIZONA

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State of Arizona, cont’d Public Safety Interoperable Communications Office

Funding: Leveraging funding through Digital Arizona Outreach, Race to the Top, SLIGP and DHS PSIC funds

Key Stakeholders: Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) Office, Public Safety Communications Advisory Commission (PSCC), Arizona Department of Homeland Security (AZDOHS), Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS)

Status: Moving forward with SLIG-P grant planning and integration with Education, Health, Governmental and Digital Arizona initiatives.

Accomplishments, Lessons Learned: 1. Defining the fiber network and routes by road segment 2. Identifying anchor agencies and regional/local governance along each road segment 3. Planning and preparing the outreach/education plan

BayRICS San Francisco Bay Area Regional Interoperable Communications

System Authority

Contact: Barry Fraser BayRICS Authority [email protected]

Project Description: BayWEB is a 4G LTE wireless broadband network that will allow public safety officials throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to communicate seamlessly during a disaster and for day-to-day operations. BayWEB will enable mobile and portable transmission of digital files, photos and video, as well as mobile “apps” designed specifically for public safety use. The project is a public private partnership with Motorola Solutions Inc., who will build, own, operate and maintain the network. BayRICS and Motorola have completed many of the most time-consuming and complex project milestones, including the successful negotiation of 12 site use agreements for 128 Radio Access Network (RAN) sites and a regional Build, Own, Operate and Maintain (BOOM) agreement with Motorola. In addition, the project team has completed a detailed network and backhaul design, most site structural analysis, antenna mapping and environmental assessments. Zoning approvals, where necessary, are currently in process for all sites.

Funding: $50.6 million BTOP federal stimulus grant. The grant was awarded to Motorola, which will contribute an additional 20% in matching funds. BayRICS members contribute RAN sites and fiber backhaul.

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Governance: BayRICS is a 13-member Joint Powers Authority (JPA), representing the San Francisco Bay Area. BayRICS is responsible for governance, funding and administration of BayWEB and other regional public safety communications projects. BayRICS was established in August 2011, following prior unsuccessful attempts to launch the project without a regional governance structure. BayRICS represents a key lesson learned for the project and now serves as a model for inter-governmental oversight of public safety communications.

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City of Boston

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Contact: Donald Denning Public Safety CIO Department of Innovation and Technology [email protected]

Project Description: Deploy 700MHz wireless LTE broadband network within the boundaries of the City of Boston. The City is still in the exploration phase because of reallocation of funding and personnel resources to support public safety narrowbanding. The City continues to plan for system deployment by conducting site assessments, site improvements backhaul improvements based upon preliminary site selections done during the BTOP grant application.

Funding: FY11 and 12 allocations re-prioritized to FCC narrowbanding mandate. No FY13 Allocation do to the passage of H.R. 3630.

City

Key Stakeholders: Department of Innovation and Technology, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety, Boston Police, Boston EMS, Boston Fire, Boston EMS, Boston Transportation Department.

Status: Working with partners at Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive office of Public Safety and Security to facilitate a knowledge transfer of work to date

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CITY

Project Description: Goals: Build a wireless countywide broadband communications network based on LTE technology to provide communications services for public safety and government agencies throughout Mecklenburg County and to provide a regional hub for the National Public Safety Broadband Network. Solution: Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) provides LTE Core services via a Hosted model where LTE Core, signaling backhaul, and device management are Cloud Core Services. Charlotte owns (ALU built) LTE Service & Packet (S&P) Gateway, microwave backhaul and eNodeB RAN. Deployment on 39 existing commercial and City owned tower sites during 2013. Core S&P Gateway network elements are at Charlotte datacenter. From the gateway, control traffic is passed through ALU hosted backhaul to its Core & NOC (Hosted Service). JUN 2015 Projections: 43 eNB Sites; 4,000 subscribers.

City of Charlotte, NC

Governance: [Primary] RCC - Radio Communications Council – Representatives from Mecklenburg Co. and seven neighboring municipalities Program Executive Steering Committee - City Director of Shared Services, City CIO, CFD Deputy Fire Chief, CMPD, Deputy Police Chief, County CIO

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Contact: Charles K. Robinson City of Charlotte [email protected]

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Funding: Original Federal Funding with Local and Other Match: $21.1M

Key Stakeholders: Radio Communications Council (RCC), Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Dept (CMPD), Charlotte Fire Department (CFD)

Status: BTOP project funding suspended by NTIA. Interoperability Showing approved by FCC July 31. System Solution Detailed Design complete and physical deployment initiated; all tower sites secured; S&P Gateway and EPC Core operational; 8 eNodeB and associated backhaul infrastructure warehoused.

Vendors: LTE Infrastructure: Alcatel-Lucent LTE Devices : Cassidian, CalAmp, Harris and Motorola Other: RCC Consulting, Crown-Castle, TechUSA, Lukas, Nace, Gutierrez & Sachs

Equipment Acquired: [N] eNodeBs, Microwave Backhaul, S/P Gateway, Networking Equipment; Cloud Core Services (see illustration at right)

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Technical Accomplishments, Lessons Learned 1. “Hosted Split Core” Solution is a viable model for advancing the

deployment of the National Public Safety Network. 2. Infrastructure and deployment costs are not the significant

differentiators between “magic quadrant” vendors.

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City of Chesapeake, VA

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CITY

Project Description: Deployment of Public Safety Broadband Network services to emergency response and disaster recovery agencies to initiate Next Generation communications in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Funding: $2.5M

Key Stakeholders: Chesapeake Fire Department / Emergency Management, Chesapeake Department of Information Technology, Chesapeake Police Department, Chesapeake Sheriff’s Office, and disaster recovery agencies supporting the City.

Status: Timeline has terminated with expiration of PSST lease for LTE operations in the 700 MHz Public Safety Broadband spectrum.

Contact: Bernie Reaser, City of Chesapeake Department of Information Technology [email protected]

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District

Project Description: The District of Columbia has in the past deployed and operated 700 MHz public safety wireless broadband networks (WARN & RWBN). The 12 site networks provided city wide outdoor coverage to multiple agencies over OFDM technology (WARN) or CDMA (RWBN) using a FCC temporary experimental license. Those sites can be reused for a LTE network deployment providing similar services. However, the District of Columbia did not obtain BTOP funding for a LTE deployment. The District is also leading the efforts for a regional approach to the deployment and operation of the mid-Atlantic portion of the nationwide public safety broadband network. A regional LTE network within the FEMA III region. Governance: • Within the District of Columbia: the Office of Unified Communications, the Metropolitan Police

Department, The Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Department of Corrections, Department of Health, Department of Public Works, Department of Transportation, and Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.

• Within the region: The District of Columbia, the State of Delaware, the State of Maryland, the State of Pennsylvania, the State of Virginia and the State of West Virginia participate in a regional planning project under the FEMA II Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)

Contact: Teddy Kavaleri Government of the District of Columbia [email protected]


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State of Hawai‘i State

Contact: Todd M. Crosby, State of Hawai’i Office of Information Management & Technology [email protected]

Project Description: Consultant services to analyze and advise the counties and the State on a planning strategy to develop a comprehensive communication program that includes standardized plans and programs for connectivity, coverage, operability, and interoperability of an LTE network for Public Safety. Governance: The State Radio Program has recently been placed under the State CIO in the Office of Information Management and Technology. The Hawai‘i Wireless Interoperability Network (HWIN) Executive Council is the main executive governance body for the State. The State Adjutant General/Director of Civil Defense and the State Chief Information Officer serve as the Council Co-Chairs. Members represent State, county, and federal interests in the systems. Status: The State and the US Department of Agriculture recently completed a demonstration network pilot in the Hilo area on the island of Hawai‘i. The pilot included RANs, an LTE core, and connectivity to government networks. Testing and evaluation was done covering application development and optimization techniques, data loading and transport, live motion video, virtual private networks, firewalls and coverage strategies.

HAWAII

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Current Projects: 1) Deep technical analysis on sustaining critical broadband; part of Hawai’i’s Broadband Initiative, 2) Evaluation of inter-island fiber landings, identify upgrade needs and strategies, and a 3) Detailed Mobile Broadband planning assessment, including PS LTE, focusing on coverage, rural vs urban and FirstNet consultation.

State of Iowa

Project Description: The ISICSB was granted a waiver by the FCC to build-out a statewide system, along with twenty (20) other recipients in May, 2010. We applied for BTOP Grant funds as the needed catalyst to begin building a public safety broadband network, but were unsuccessful in securing that grant. We continued to actively plan and address issues related to the design and implementation of a nationwide build-out with the PSST, FCC, PSCR, and NTIA. Key Stakeholders: Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System Board and Iowa’s public safety community

Status: For the past 2+ years, we have continued to actively plan and address issues related to a nationwide build-out with the PSST, FCC, PSCR, and NTIA. As part of this active engagement, We hosted an LTE demonstration project in August, 2012, and are working to host another one in February-March, 2013.

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Contact: Jim Bogner Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System Board State of Iowa [email protected]

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LA-RICS Los Angeles Regional

Interoperable Communications System

Contact: Pat Mallon LA-RICS [email protected]

Project Description: The greater Los Angeles region is one of the largest urban areas in the nation, with 88 municipalities and more than 10 million residents living within 4,084 square miles. The LTE broadband mobile data system would provide users field access to high-speed wireless data throughout the Los Angeles region. The system would be designed to provide coverage throughout Los Angeles County, capacity for at least 34,000 first responders, and minimum uplink speeds of 256 kilobits per second (“kbps”) and downlink speeds of 768 kbps. To meet these requirements, it is estimated that the system would require approximately 255 new and existing transmitter/receiver sites distributed throughout the County and be networked via new and existing high-capacity microwave data links and fiber-optic networks.

Funding: BTOP Grant: $154.6 M

Status: BTOP project funding partially suspended by NTIA. Working on new LTE RFP to address changes from HR3630.

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Governance: The City of Los Angeles and the County, along with other municipalities and public sector entities located within the County, entered into a Joint Powers Agreement in 2009 to create the Authority. The purpose of the Authority is to construct, own, operate and maintain a regional, interoperable, public safety communication system. A seventeen member Board of Directors, comprised of first responder stakeholders from throughout the greater Los Angeles region, governs the Authority.

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Contacts: Vicki B. Helfrich Mississippi Wireless Communication Commission SWIC, Major Projects [email protected]

State

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Project Description1: The State of Mississippi, prior to the BTOP suspension, performed a great deal of planning work and deployment which has spurred interest from surrounding states in partnering with Mississippi and using the MSWIN LTE core. Mississippi believes the LTE existing core can be integrated into both FirstNet’s network and governance structure seamlessly while maintaining FirstNet governance or interoperability.

Status: Mississippi has installed the MSWIN LTE core at the State Data Center. All LTE equipment has been received by the State. ENodeB equipment for the 135 MSWIN tower sites has been delivered to the sites. LTE antenna arrays have been installed on 69 MSWIN tower sites. The deployment of the State’s LTE Network has been halted by NTIA through the partial suspension on May 11, 2012. Due to the suspension, LTE equipment is dormant at leased and State owned tower sites, occupying precious tower space that could otherwise be used for Public Safety.

Vendors: Motorola Solutions Inc., Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson

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MISSISSIPPI

Governance: The MWCC is an existing governmental body representing the stakeholders of public safety and is overseeing the nearly complete build-out of the Mississippi Wireless Information Network (MSWIN). The members of the MWCC represent the broad interests of the state and local public safety community. The Statewide Interoperability Coordinator (SWIC) is also located at the MWCC.

State of Mississippi - MSWIN ok!

Contact: Kenneth Boley [email protected]

Project Description: New Jersey’s $50 million BTOP project was initially defined as LTE deployment in seven-county UASI in northern part of State; NTIA partial suspension led to re-scoping proposal submitted to NTIA. Proposed re-scoping would change project to a preparatory, statewide project. It would identify and assess government-owned (state and local) sites statewide, create a statewide coverage design, and improve the sites implicated in the design so that they are ready to receive LTE equipment during roll-out of the nationwide network. Proposed re-scoped project therefore would not create a network; it would improve sites, towers, backhaul at implicated sites for a future network. State wishes to pursue partnership with FirstNet, including possibly different project direction. Funding: $50M BTOP Project: $40M Federal, $10M State.

State


Governance: Statewide Public Safety Communications Commission created by statute in 2011 is New Jersey’s public safety broadband governance body. Statute also created an advisory council for the commission; all member affiliations for commission and advisory council are specified in the law. First meeting of the commission was Oct. 5, 2012, advisory council has met multiple times already. Commission has adopted its charter, advisory council charter is in draft form, awaiting approval at next meeting.

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State of New Jersey

NEW JERSEY

Contact: Jacque Miller [email protected] or Laura Phillips [email protected]

Project Description: The State of New Mexico (SoNM) is the fifth largest state in the United States with diverse geographical terrain and vast rural areas as challenges to operable, interoperable and broadband access. The purpose of this project is to complete the upgrade of the State’s digital microwave system and deploy a pilot Long Term Evolution (LTE)/public safety locations in the Middle Rio Grande Corridor. The scope includes: • Upgrading of the Statewide microwave infrastructure from analog to digital. This network, SIRCITS, will support 155Mb

throughput capacity to support wireless broadband and state/public safety land mobile radio with 109 towers covering 121, 356 square miles of rugged terrain.

• The project involves the upgrading or replacement of shelters, generators, towers, antenna systems, radios and routers that will provide a robust backhaul for land mobile radio and broadband.

• A 700MHz public safety broadband pilot in the Middle Rio Grande Corridor .

Funding: Federal - $38,699,997, State Cash - $5,399,999, State In-kind - $11,600,004

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State of New Mexico-SIRCITS

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Governance: State of New Mexico/Dept. of Information Technology currently has legislative authority to provide enterprise Broadband and Radios Services. Working with technical assistance from OEC and other strategic partners, we will enhance standing governing bodies to include governance of a shared statewide networks, applications and operations (2013) including partnership/deployment of FirstNET throughout New Mexico.

State of New York Contact: Robert Barbato, SWIC New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services [email protected]

Governance: The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services is dedicated to the protection of New Yorkers, their property and the State’s economic well-being from acts of terrorism and natural and manmade emergencies or disasters. Within this Division, the Office of Interoperable and Emergency Communications is the principle state agency for all interoperable and emergency communications issues. New York State currently has two active interoperable communications boards/working groups. The State Interoperable and Emergency Communication Board (SIEC Board) and the Communications and Interoperability Working Group (CIWG). The SIEC Board, a formal board created in State legislation, provides governance and recommendations for land mobile radio and 911 standards. The Board consists of a mix of 25 appointed and ex-officio members from across the State who meet at least four times per year. The Board is chaired by the Statewide Interoperability Coordinator (SWIC).

Status: No project at this time, although we plan to be fully engaged in the FirstNet process.

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State of Oregon

Contact: Steve Noel, ODOT SWIC, Major Projects [email protected]

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Project Description: Our efforts, to date have been limited to an RFP and selecting demonstration projects in Portland, Salem and Eugene with three different vendors. Each of these demonstration efforts were to be self funded by the vendors and were scheduled for the summer of 2012. With the passage of the new federal legislation this past spring, our state direction has been changing to meet changes in federal direction. Two of the vendors have dropped out of our limited project and the remaining one has been changed and been limited in scope.

Key Stakeholders: City of Portland, State of Oregon, and Washington County

Status: Broadband demonstration scheduled for November/December of 2012 use of broadband gateway device “Be On.”

Vendor: Harris Corporation

Initial deployment planned for Communication Region shown in purple.

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City of Pembroke Pines Contact: Tony Soviero [email protected]

City


Project Description: The City of Pembroke Pines is approximately 35 sq. mi. and will require between 3-4 eNodeBs for a City-wide Network..

Governance: At present, the City of Pembroke Pines is the sole Waiver Recipient in the State of Florida. Ongoing efforts are being made to include surrounding communities to create a more regional and operationally sustainable project.

Status: Pending

Funding: Municipal self-funded

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City of San Antonio

Project Description: As an original Waiver Recipient, and one the earliest applicants for a Waiver, the City of San Antonio, and project partners, pursued deployment of a PS LTE system. The LTE system was envisioned to provide advanced data operations for public safety and public service users across an area that encompasses 95% of the population of Bexar and Comal Counties. San Antonio and its partners have a strong track record of successfully deploying highly reliable private and commercial wireless networks that provide interoperability and advanced data services. The preliminary plan was to deploy an end-to-end IP-based LTE network with a distributed architecture to achieve the scalability necessary to support thousands of public safety and service users over a large regional geography.

Key Stakeholders: City of San Antonio, San Antonio Urban Security Initiative (SAUASI), Bexar and Comal Counties, and region-wide public safety and public service organizations.


Contact: Bart Mulcahy City of San Antonio Infrastructure Information Technology Services Dept. [email protected]

Status: Project is currently on hold.

Funding: The City, along with the project partners, dedicated significant resources to design and planning for BTOP I and BTOP II grant applications.

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Contact: Mark Schmidt City of Seattle [email protected]

Project Description: The City of Seattle proposed for BTOP funding a $24 million LTE wireless data network to cover the 100 square mile geography of the City. The radio access network would include 38 sites, including existing land mobile radio sites, fire stations, public housing buildings, and other sites. The network would also use the City’s existing 500+ miles of fiber for backhaul. The project was not funded with BTOP and is not proceeding. The City of Seattle also issued an RFI in December, 2011 seeking innovative methods for potentially building an LTE data network using private-public partnerships. This RFI was developed with the support of Aneesh Chopra, who was then Chief Technology Officer of the United States. The City received 21 responses to that RFI. Following passage of the Spectrum Act, in February, 2012, it was apparent the City would soon lose its access to 700 MHz spectrum, so no further action was taken on these responses. Nevertheless the responses may describe some alternative financing and partnership methods useful in FirstNet’s planning and design for the nationwide network.

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Governance: The City of Seattle governs wireless projects through the Department of Information Technology (DoIT), Erin Devoto, Acting Chief Technology Officer. DoIT offers public safety voice networking services to other departments of City government and to nearby agencies. The City of Seattle is an active participant in a Regional Executive Policy Committee (REPC) composed of elected and senior officials from the three-county Seattle Urban Area (UASI), each of whom is responsible for public safety wireless networks. The REPC is actively working to formalize an agreement between counties to: • Jointly develop and improve emergency communications according to the regional principles they establish. • Adopt a regional strategic technology plan for public safety communications investments in technology that

provides a regional roadmap toward a single unified public safety communications platform. • Provide policy leadership for the region on public safety communications to ensure effective, inclusive, and fair

regional public safety communications policies. • Propose mechanisms for funding public safety communications investments in the region. • Adopt standards for the region for public safety technology platforms, interoperability among systems, and

operations and maintenance.

City of Seattle

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Project Description: The State of Texas PS LTE program has recently completed detailed program planning to support preparations for NTIA SLIG-P Grant. Focus areas include FirstNet consultation preparation, FCC coordination, outreach and education, governance implementation and rural coverage solutions. The State of Texas envisions a strong state-level coordination, enabling efficient integration into the FirstNet Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network

Status: On August 31, 2012, the State of Texas on behalf of Harris County ITC received authorization to operate PS LTE for (14) eNodeB sites in the Houston area.

Contact: Todd M. Early Texas Department of Public Safety [email protected]


HARRIS COUNTY PS LTE Coverage provided by 14 site deployment

Governance: The State of Texas has established a governance frameworks which utilizes and expands existing TxICC, an existing statewide interoperability organization. The plan was recognized as a Best Practices by DHS-OEC.

State

FoxComm - Wisconsin Counties Outagamie, Winnebago & Calumet

Contact: Tony Lodel FoxComm Wisconsin Counties [email protected]

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Project Description: The system would provide 95% outdoor coverage of the three-county area of 1,400 square miles and initially be utilized to support current data applications (AVL, CAD, text messaging, etc.) and expanded to include streaming video, digital imaging, telemetry/remote diagnostics, etc.

Key Stakeholders: Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago Counties located in Northeastern Wisconsin. Twenty-five law enforcement, 57 fire, 29 EMS districts, and three 9-1-1 communication centers within the three-county area.

Status: No funding was provided to Wisconsin Counties via the BTOP and as a result, the project is currently not advancing.

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Governance: Governance for the Wisconsin Counties’ broadband project is provided by FoxComm, a public safety communications consortium of the three Counties. FoxComm is governed by a nine member Fiscal Advisory Board consisting of the Sheriff, MIS director, and a county board supervisor from each County.


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