Emergency Response Interoperability Center Adds New Members
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2010 – The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau appointed 20 members to its Emergency Response Interoperability Center’s Technical Advisory Committee Monday. The ERIC mission is to establish a technical and operational framework that will ensure nationwide operability and
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2010 – The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau appointed 20 members to its Emergency Response Interoperability Center’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monday.
The ERIC mission is to establish a technical and operational framework that will ensure nationwide operability and interoperability in deployment and operation of the 700 megahertz public safety broadband wireless network.
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Each of the newly appointed members is either a federal official, an elected officer of a state or local government, or a designated employee authorized to act on behalf of that officer.
Committee members include Ahsan Baig, who was supervising engineer at Parsons Brinckerhoff; Stephen Devine, who was interoperability program manager for the Missouri Department of Public Safety; Marlin Mackey, who has been the cabinet secretary of the Department of Information Technology since 2008; and Walt Magnussen, director of telecommunications at Texas A&M University.