State Interoperability Executive Committee Briefing to the Information Services Board

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State Interoperability Executive Committee
Briefing to the Information Services Board

• January 13, 2005
• Chief Lowell Porter
• Chairman, SIEC

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Agenda

• Seek approval of nominees for the SIEC
• Review of the legislative requirements of the
  SIEC
• Discussion of the High-Level Final Statewide
  Public Safety Communications Interoperability
  Plan
• Goals
• Recommendations
• Seek approval for the Plan submitted to the
  Legislature
• Next steps
• Phase II, Statewide Inventory
• Technical Implementation Plan

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Nominations to the SIEC

• Nominations to the SIEC are subject to the
  approval of the ISB.
• Gummada Murthy, Director of Maintenance and
  Operations Program, Washington State Department
  of Transportation.
• Samuel Pierre, Fire Marshal, Washington State
  Patrol.

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SIEC Requirements

• December 31, 2003 completed an inventory of
  state-operated public safety radio
  systems and sent a report to the Legislature.

• March 31, 2004 completed an Interim Plan
  for state-operated
• public safety radio systems and sent a report to
  the Legislature.

• July 31, 2004 completed (Phase I of) a
  statewide inventory of public safety radio
  communications systems, and sent a report to the
  Legislature.

• December 31, 2004 completed a statewide
  Final Communications
• Plan for all public safety communications
  systems, and sent a
• report to the Legislature.

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High-Level Final Statewide Public Safety
Communications Interoperability Plan

• ISB briefed on plan outline November 10, 2004
• Approved by the SIEC December 13, 2004
• Submitted to the Legislature December 30, 2004
• SIEC Plan mailed to ISB January 2005

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Goals

• Goal 1 Establish statewide interoperability as
  a high priority for all stakeholders, including
  federal, state, local, regional, and tribal
  agencies and entities.
• Goal 2 Maximize the improvements in
  interoperability by institutionalizing
  collaborative approaches across the state based
  upon common priorities and consensus at the
  regional level.
• Goal 3 Create an architectural approach which
  establishes a framework for interfacing between
  disparate systems and promotes migration to new
  technologies.

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Goals (continued)

• Goal 4 Provide for a technology environment
  that allows evolutionary migration of state,
  local, tribal, and regional systems to the level
  of interoperability that is appropriate for their
  mission.
• Goal 5 Optimize the use of all funding sources
  at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels.
• Goal 6 Maximize the use of best current
  practices approaches to improving
  interoperability.
• Goal 7 Create a statewide backbone
  communications capability that will provide
  connectivity for state, local/tribal, and
  regional groups .

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Recommendations (Governance)

• Frequency coordination should be centralized.
• Plan must include voice and data communications.
• Create a statewide outreach program.
• Where they do not currently exist, form Regional
  Interoperability Work Groups.
• Educate key state and local legislative
  policy-makers regarding the need for
  interoperable communications.
• Raise the awareness level in the general public
  for the critical and urgent need for
  interoperability.

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Recommendations (Funding)

• Use the SIEC Advisory Funding Enterprise (SAFE)
  Working Group as the funding advisory resource
  body for state and local government.
• State and federal funding should be tied to the
  use of standards.
• Investigate the use of General Funds for support
  of local systems.
• Investigate the use of vendor-offered
  public/private and leasing opportunities.
• Consider commercializing available antenna space.

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Recommendations (Technology)

• Establish a collaborative approach for planning
  of state agency communications, sharing
  infrastructure where possible.
• Maximize use of mutual-aid channels and
  interconnect devices.
• Provide processes, standards, and shared learning
  for the development of regional technology
  solutions.
• Work with each regional system, incorporating all
  area users and providing a path for each user to
  join into the statewide solution.
• Better utilize current systems for frequency
  sharing, infrastructure, and support personnel.

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Recommendations (Standards)

• Provide a set of living standards that will
  define the minimum entry-points for state, local,
  regional, and tribal systems to begin to
  interoperate with each other.
• New trunked systems or systems requiring advanced
  digital features should be P25.
• New systems or equipment purchases should be
  P25-upgradeable.
• Standalone systems (minimal interoperability
  requirements) can be non-P25 or P25 upgradeable
  until P25 costs drop.
• Same for existing VHF conventional analog
  systems.
• May set interim standard for non-P25 VHF
  narrowbanding if economically required.
• Very small local systems can stay non-P25 or move
  to P-25 upgradeable based on economics.
• Directional approach for all purchases shall be
  towards increasing P25 compatibility.

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Next Steps

• Comprehensive statewide inventory of public
  safety communications assets (Phase II). (Report
  will be approved by the SIEC on February 24,
  2005.)
• Technical Implementation Plan. (Plan will be
  approved by the SIEC June 23, 2005.)
• SIEC attempting to gain 2 FTEs to work on
  statewide frequency coordination.
• SIEC pursuing funding opportunities to create
  radio caches that could be used by local
  government.
• SIEC pursuing funding to establish a statewide On
  Scene Command and Control Radio Network.

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Questions?

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