The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program partially suspended seven public safety...
The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program partially suspended seven public safety grants, and plans to ask the Office of Management and Budget for an extension for the project deadlines, the NTIA said Friday. NTIA sent letters to the grantees Friday notifying…
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them of the suspension. A February law to establish a nationwide public safety broadband network based on a single nationwide architecture “dramatically changes the assumptions on which we awarded the public safety grants in 2010,” reads one of the letters (http://xrl.us/bm69nj). NTIA will reassess how to proceed with the projects, it said. The agency said it wants to keep the grant money in the communities that received the grants, to be used for facilities and equipment that will be incorporated into the first responder network authority single nationwide public safety network. The suspended grants were for the Adams County (Colo.) Communications Center; the City of Charlotte, N.C.; the Executive Office of the State of Mississippi; the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System Authority; Motorola Solutions in Illinois; the New Jersey Department of Treasury and the New Mexico Department of Information Technology.