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Florida’s efforts to transition its Statewide Law-Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) from legacy EDACS to P25 technology that is augmented by FirstNet broadband service is largely on schedule, with most public-safety users having P25 devices by July, according to an official with contractor L3Harris.

Keith Gaston, the SLERS account manager for L3Harris, said that all of the 11,000 hybrid devices—capable of EDACS and P25 operations on the LMR network, as well as working on the FirstNet public-safety LTE system—for state agencies have been delivered, and more than 4,000 of those have been distributed. Florida’s Department of Management Services (DMS) is charged with distributing all of these LMR-LTE devices to state agencies by the end of June…