The fiscal-year 2011 budget must include $1.5 million for the...
The fiscal-year 2011 budget must include $1.5 million for the FCC’s Emergency Response Interoperability Center (ERIC), FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told appropriators in an Oct. 15 letter released last week. He was responding to questions submitted by the House Appropriations…
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Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government after its June 9 hearing. “ERIC has been staffed with existing resources, and current staffing levels will not provide sufficient resources for ERIC to fully perform its important role after this fiscal year,” Genachowski said. The current commission budget doesn’t account for travel expenses required for ERIC to work with public safety, equipment vendors and federal partners, he said. Genachowski defended the FCC budget request’s call for 75 additional staffers (CD Aug 8 p6), also in the response. They are needed to implement the National Broadband Plan, increase the agency’s “openness and transparency” and strengthen the agency’s role on cybersecurity, he said. They would include engineers, attorneys, economists, statisticians, business and market analysts, and data analysts and architects, he said. None of the commission’s current workforce of 1,830 can be retasked, Genachowski said.