DOD Veteran Tapped to Lead FirstNet Authority
The FirstNet Authority announced Friday that Joseph Wassel, a 34-year veteran of DOD, was named executive director. Wassel chaired DOD’s Global Public Safety Communications Working Group “responsible for ensuring that DOD’s more than 150,000 first responders -- including police, fire,…
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and [emergency medical service] personnel -- had access to reliable, next-generation communications, including the FirstNet network,” FirstNet said. Wassel also worked for the Defense Information Systems Agency, as assistant to the secretary of defense for communications and as a deputy chief information officer. He replaces Ed Parkinson, who left the authority last year for a job at vendor RapidSOS (see 2204280049). “Joe has a long history championing first responders and is the right person to lead FirstNet,” said NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson: “His decades of leadership at the Department of Defense, including overseeing DoD's implementation of FirstNet across its 150,000 first responders, make him perfectly suited for the role.”