Jerry Brito

Public safety communications interoperability

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I have an article in the new issue of Regulation magazine on public safety communications interoperability. Many folks are surprised to find out that police, firefighters, EMS, federal agencies, and the rest can’t communicate seamlessly through their radios. In fact, they have a very difficult time communicating. I look at some of the causes and suggest that one solution could be for first responders to buy their communications solutions on the open market (like they buy guns and cars and everything else) instead of building their own systems. I have a paper on this coming out in a couple of months in the FCLJ. It’s part of a symposium Mercatus is co-sponsoring with GMU’s Tech Center.

Nov 3, 2006 | Comments | Tags: interoperability, regulation