First Responder Interoperability By 2023?

2. May 2008 by Dan Verton.

Homeland Security Television’s new program, Ghosts In The Machine: The Challenge of Achieving Interoperability For Disaster Response, reveals the troubling reality of our nation’s ability to communicate during a disaster. More than 6 years after 9/11, the nation can only point to “marginal improvements” in emergency communications interoperability. And according to the Association of Public Safety Communications Offcials, a nationwide interoperable wireless voice capability for first responders is still 15 years away.

That means interoperable emergency communications — which the 9/11 Commission said was one of the most important requirements for homeland security in the post-9/11 world — might be a reality more than two decades after 9/11.

Here’s a direct link to the video:

Ghosts In The Machine: The Challenge of Achieving Interoperability For Disaster Response

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