Project SAFECOM: Key Cross-agency Emergency Communications Effort Requires Stronger Collaboration : Report to Congressional RequestersU.S. United States General Accounting Office, 2004 - 22 pages |
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2002 FEMA appointed ability of Project Accounting Office achieve interoperability achieving communications interoperability AGILE Program Appendix I Comments appointed managing partner Balanced Scorecard collaboration with stakeholders Communications Effort Requires coordinate Cross-Agency Emergency Communications current project team Department of Homeland Department of Justice draft e-government initiative Effort Requires Stronger electronic government Emergency Communications Effort Emergency Management Agency federal agencies Federal Emergency Management federal funding partners federal programs FICC Fiscal year 2003 Force on Interoperability future interoperability GAO report GAO's goals governance structure identified implemented improved interoperability Key Cross-Agency Emergency leadership levels of government limited progress management team National Task Force objective of achieving overall objective performance measures President's Management Agenda program management program officials Project SAFECOM project's stakeholders PSWN public safety agencies public safety communications radio Ranking Minority Member Requires Stronger Collaboration SAFECOM Program Secretary of Homeland specific strategy U.S. Department U.S. General Accounting wireless communications
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Page 1 - The Honorable Christopher Shays Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives Dear Mr.
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Page 1 - Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems (or components) to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged.
Page 1 - IT, particularly Web-based Internet applications, to enhance the access to and delivery of government information and service to citizens, to business partners, to employees, and among agencies at all levels of government.
Page 18 - Directorate that is dedicated to improving public safety response through enhanced interoperable wireless communications. The goal is to enable public safety agencies to talk across disciplines and jurisdictions via radio communications systems, exchanging voice or data with one another on demand and in real time. SAFECOM...
Page 18 - SAFECOM works with existing federal communications initiatives and key public safety stakeholders to address the need to develop better technologies and processes for the cross-jurisdictional and cross-disciplinary coordination of existing systems and future networks. SAFECOM...
Page 2 - Homeland Security: Challenges in Achieving Interoperable Communications for First Responders, GAO-04-231T (Washington, DC: Nov.
Page 4 - Electronic Government Success of the Office of Management and Budget's 25 Initiatives Depends on Effective Management and Oversight GAO03-496T.
Page 19 - First, as over 90 percent of public safety communications infrastructure is owned and operated at the local and State level...