Public Safety Advocate
Fri Jun 3 11:46:14 2016 Any and all FirstNet RFP responses were to have been submitted by this past Tuesday. However, there seems to be some confusion over if and…
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PSA Opting Out of FirstNet
Thu May 26 19:47:39 2016 Each state has the right to opt out of the plan FirstNet and the selected partner vendor presents to it. However, it the state does…
Public Safety
Fri May 20 12:47:28 2016 Yes this is still the Public Safety Advocate Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary but last week more than sixty of our subscribers did not receive the…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri May 13 11:59:51 2016 It has been a relatively quiet week in the Public Safety communications space. That is not to say there is not a lot happening around…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri May 6 14:07:29 2016 Unlike CNN, I won’t be posting a clock with a countdown to the day and time responses to the FirstNet partnership RFP are due at…
When All Else Fails…
Looking back at past major incidents and disasters, you will find that Ham radio operators have always been on the scene working to establish communications where needed. During Katrina, Hams spent weeks in the area working side-by-side with first responders. Some even set up a temporary FM broadcast station so authorities could provide updates to citizens.
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly Summary
Fri Apr 22 12:04:54 2016 I read with interest the current version of FirstNet’s Tech Talk: Updated Vehicular Network System Vison which can be found here: https://firstnet.gov/newsroom/blog/tech-talk-updated-vehicular-network-system-vision. It is a…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Apr 15 11:20:16 2016 Each week as I sit down to write this post for the end-of-the-week email blast, I first review the happenings of the week and emails…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Apr 8 10:45:50 2016 From our Friends at NPSTC: A Reminder to Honor those who also serve: “National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW) is April 12-18. Next week NPSTC…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Thu Mar 31 20:07:12 2016 Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk (PTT) over FirstNet After I published last week’s news piece I received some other information, mainly from members of the Public Safety community…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Mar 25 13:11:16 2016 Not being at the IWCE show in Las Vegas this week has been tough for me as I have attended for so many years and…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Mar 18 14:39:03 2016 My favorite convention and conference is IWCE, which will be held next week in Las Vegas. I was supposed to participate on a few panels…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Mar 11 11:57:26 2016 FirstNet’s Pre-Proposal Conference Thursday, March 10, 2106, FirstNet sponsored a Pre-Proposal Conference in Reston, VA to discuss the RFP, clarify some of its points, and…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Thu Mar 3 18:08:31 2016 While FirstNet continues responding to the more than 400 questions and while some vendors continue to plan their response while others send their RFP teams…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Feb 26 13:57:04 2016 Okay, I am confused. FirstNet posted its responses to the first one hundred of the four hundred questions it received between the time the RFP…