Public safety communications will get a hearing Feb. 8 by the Sen...
Public safety communications will get a hearing Feb. 8 by the Senate Commerce Committee, the committee said Fri. On Wed., Chmn. Inouye (D-Hawaii) introduced a bill (S-385) to improve emergency communications, co-sponsored by Sens. Kerry (D-Mass.), Smith (R-Ore.) and…
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Snowe (R-Me.). The bill gives guidance to NTIA for spending $1 billion in interoperability funds allocated in the 2005 budget. House Commerce Committee Chmn. Dingell (D-Mich.) has an interoperability measure (HR- 338) to set up a grant program to improve local, state and national emergency communications. The bill would dovetail with the Dept. of Homeland Security’s work on a national emergency communications plan, baseline interoperability assessment and a report on progress achieved in developing voluntary consensus-based communications standards.