PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Update
Thu Feb 11 19:29:21 2016 When I wrote my Public Safety Advocate last week documenting the issues with the FirstNet RFP, I did not realize…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Update
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly New Summary
Thu Feb 4 19:37:30 2016 Public Safety Advocate Special FirstNet RFP Update Please Note: As with any of my articles, I approve the forwarding or…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Jan 22 10:03:15 2016 When FirstNet released the final RFP it allowed for questions to be asked until February 12, 2016. This is a…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Jan 15 12:16:49 2016 FirstNet released the final RFP and today, Friday the 15th from 1-3 pm EST, it is providing a kick-off webinar….
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Fri Jan 8 09:52:44 2016 While We Wait for FirstNet A while ago I wrote an article entitled, “While We Wait for FirstNet,” which was…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Wed Dec 10 11:53:49 2015 End of 2015 This is the last Public Safety Advocate for 2015, and as required by the writers’ union, I…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Thu Dec 17, 17:32:35 2015 Some of the State of New Hampshire’s elected officials and their staffs have been conned, hoodwinked, led down Primrose Lane,…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
Dec 11 2015 The most important news of the week is, of course, that on December 9, 2015, the FirstNet Board of Directors approved the…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
For those who do not subscribe to Andy’s Public Safety Advocate Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary, we have decided to include his comments on items…
PSA Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary
For those who do not subscribe to Andy’s Public Safety Advocate Discovery Patterns Weekly News Summary, we have decided to include his comments on items…
The First Responder Network (FirstNet) and Next-Generation Communications for Public Safety: Issues for Congress 2015
Linda K. Moore Specialist in Telecommunications Policy February 27, 2015 Summary Congress included provisions in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of…
FirstNet and the Inspector General’s Report
Let’s hope that what comes out of this is more independence for FirstNet, leaving FirstNet to pick up the pace and get this network in the ground and operational.
IACP Orlando Slides
IACP Orlando
Is Partnering with FirstNet Possible?
As I see it, no meaningful private discussions means no partners. No partners means no more money for the network. No more money for the network means at some point FirstNet will not be able to continue to function, which means Public Safety will have lost the most important opportunity it will ever have to fix its interoperability problems.
FirstNet: Listen to Your Customers!
The majority of the Public Safety community still believes today that this new network is about data and video and not about voice, at least for the foreseeable future.