What is SAFECOM doing to address interoperability in the short-term?
In the last year, SAFECOM has: • Created the Federal Interagency Coordination Council (FICC) to coordinate funding, technical assistance, standards development, and regulations affecting communications and interoperability across the federal government; • Published a Statement of Requirements which, for the first time, defines what it will take to achieve full interoperability and provides industry requirements against which to map their product capabilities; • Issued a request for proposals for the development of a national interoperability baseline; • Initiated an effort to accelerate the development of critical standards for interoperability; • Created a Grant Guidance document that has been used by FEMA, COPS, and ODP state block grant program to promote interoperability improvement efforts. • Established a task force with the Federal Communications Commission to consider spectrum and regulatory issues that can strengthen emergency response interoperability; • Created a model metho
