by ECC Editor | Mar 25, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Democrats on March 11, 2021, reintroduced a signature infrastructure package, the Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s America Act, or LIFT America Act (H.R. 1848) to modernize U.S. infrastructure, combat climate change, and protect public health and the environment.
The LIFT America Act would invest more than $312 billion in clean energy, energy efficiency, drinking water, broadband and healthcare infrastructure. This Holland & Knight alert provides details on the act’s contents… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Mar 23, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Anita Pitt sits at her desk, where she speaks with a melodious Texas drawl. She doesn’t convey any particular sense of urgency, and yet, over the past 37 years as the 911 program manager for the Brazos Valley Council of Governments, her entire job has been about conveying urgency. She manages the staff and technology in her region as a small but vital part of the network of 6,100 emergency call centers scattered across the United States. These call centers field 200 million calls a year… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 23, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Neil Horden
When we think of public safety communications, we most often think of police, and fire, and the Two-Way radios they use. While much has changed about these systems over the years, the fundamentals of Two-Way Push-to-Talk (PTT) communications on a Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system has been a staple. So much so, that we often define our communications requirements as if PTT over LMR is the only viable solution.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 20, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Firefighters’ RF devices and remote speaker microphones will have to pass unprecedented durability testing and include a data-logging capability—similar to a “black box” on an airplane—to achieve certification under the new standard published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
NFPA is well known for developing fire-safety standards for citizens and firefighters, but the NFPA 1802 standard that was published in January is the organization’s first that addresses the performance of RF devices—typically, two-way radios—and RSMs, according to Don Griffis, one of the L3Harris representatives who served on the technical committee that developed the standard…
by ECC Editor | Mar 19, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
yto Athene was awarded a NETCENTS 2 task order to provide enhanced 911 sustainment services, hardware sustainment and digital logging recorder (DLR) sustainment services at multiple sites for the US Air Force, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs). The contract also includes continuous operations relating to all E911 and associated systems as follows… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 19, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Amid the protests last summer that followed George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, three Boston City Council members proposed an ordinance to divert nonviolent 911 calls away from the Boston Police Department. Those calls—often involving mental-health emergencies, homelessness, substance use, and traffic accidents—would be dispatched to community-safety officials in non-law-enforcement agencies instead…
