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TEEX: Warren ‘Country’ Weidler notes challenges integrating new technologies, dangers of autocorrect

Warren “Country” Weidler, the search-and-rescue coordinator for Texas Task Force One and part of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), describes the recent cybersecurity-related response exercise conducted at the Winter Institute, where he led the incident-command post. With LMR radio unavailable under the scenario, chat messaging, pictures/video from drones and other communications methods were […]

PSCR: Maxwell Maurice highlights work on deployable broadband platform

Maxwell Maurice, electronics support technician for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),  showcases the rapidly deployable research platform, which is designed to make first responders “completely independent and completely self-contained” in terms of communicating while in areas without normal network connectivity. Maurice spoke with IWCE’s […]

Texas Military Department: Lt. Jared Reinhardt showcases deployable communications capabilities

Lt. Jared Reinhardt of the Texas Military Department provides a tour of the organization’s deployable command vehicles, which support multiband LMR, cellular broadband, satellite backhaul and bridging technologies that are designed to enable interoperability between disparate systems. Reinhardt spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during a field exercise conducted at the RELLIS campus […]

NENA: Brandon Abley outlines volunteer need for NG911 Interoperability Oversight Commission

Brandon Abley, technical issues director for NENA, explains the purpose of the NG911 Interoperability Oversight Commission, an independent body established this week to oversee key security and location roles associated with next-generation 911 (NG911) interoperability, including the PSAP Credentialing Agency (PCA) and the NG911 Forest Guide. Nomination of volunteers willing to serve on the 14-member […]

Texas DPS: Jared VandenHeuvel highlights Winter Institute scenarios, emerging comm tools

Jared VandenHeuvel, program coordinator at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), outlines the emergency scenarios that Winter Institute participants responded to during exercises conducted last week at Texas A&M University and the surrounding area. VandenHeuvel also discusses new communications tools and the need for different skill sets within response units to take advantage of […]

Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover highlights versatility of smart-streetlight solution

Adair Grover, CEO and president of Wi-Fiber, outlines the capabilities of his company’s Intelli-Platform, a smart-streetlight device that supports 30-mile point-to-point links and a variety of broadband communications, as well as housing a host of sensors that can detect gunshots, air quality and temperature. Grover spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the Winter […]
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