SAFECOM 4
SAFECOM 4 : SAFECOM is an umbrella program driven by public safety practitioners for more effective and efficient interoperable wireless communications. SAFECOM was established by the Office of Management & Budget to deal with heavy investments in a largely incompatible communications infrastructure. SAFECOM works with existing federal communications initiatives and key public safety stakeholders to develop better technologies and processes for cross-jurisdictional and cross-disciplinary coordination of existing systems and future networks. Communications interoperability is the ability to talk across disciplines and jurisdictions via radio communications systems, exchanging voice and/or data with one another on demand, in real time, as authorized. The customer base is broad with over 50,000 local and state public safety agencies and over 100 federal agencies engaged in disciplines such as law enforcement, firefighting, public health and disaster recovery. SAFECOM allows these agencies to share experiences, develop common approaches, and identify best practices with the help of experts from public safety and industry to define security guidelines, standards, and procedures. To support interoperability, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reallocated 50 MHz of spectrum in the 4.9 gigahertz (GHz) band for public safety use to support broadband data and video transmissions
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