Interoperability Plans

Interoperability Plans establish the future vision, project plan, and/or implementation plan for the planning or continuation of communications interoperability across multiple disciplines and responders at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels.

4/3/2008
Florida Chapter APCO Statewide Disaster Mutual Aid Plan
This plan provides for the systematic mobilization, organization and operation of communications personnel resources from throughout the state to assist public safety agencies in mitigating the effects of a disaster. It is designed to supplement other statewide disaster plans by providing communications professionals to requesting agencies during a major emergency.
4/3/2008
Georgia's Statewide Interoperable Communications System
August 2007. Through funding made available under the federal Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program (LETPP), Georgia has completed the pilot phase of a multi-phase implementation of the Statewide Interoperable Communications System for law enforcement and other first responders throughout the state. Functional delivery is being provided to local law enforcement agencies and state agencies. Work began in early 2006 and is expected to be completed in 2008.
4/3/2008
Idaho Interoperability Plan
July 2005. Idaho's plan is designed to (a) leverage the state's Microwave System investment, (b) leverage the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security's Master Site investment, (c) utilize all available spectrum, (d) build upon the Regional Network constructed in Bannock and Bingham Counties, (e) incorporate the Ada County/City of Boise 700 MHz network, and (f) include plans currently being developed by a number of Idaho counties.
10/6/2008
Interoperability Montana (IM) Project
This website contains links to various interoperability projects throughout the state, as well as the Interoperability Montana Project Directors page. This information constitutes the framework for Montana's Statewide Interoperability Process, which is working to assess voice communication needs, define an appropriate radio system based on user-defined requirements, national standards and current available technology, and implement the system in a phased approach, sharing basic infrastructure and costs among federal, state, tribal, and local governments.
4/3/2008
Interoperability Plan for the State of Alaska
April 2003. This plan encourages public safety first-responders within Alaska to adopt a common standard trunk radio infrastructure solution. It nonetheless recognizes a need to provide an interface for legacy conventional systems during defined interoperability situations. The plan therefore focuses on accommodation of both standards based and non-standards based radio equipment interoperability and establishing the administration and management of the interoperability spectrum to support the incident command structure. Hence, a radio user operating with a VHF trunking capable radio will be able to operate in both a trunking mode and a conventional mode.
4/3/2008
Kentucky Interoperability Plan
June 2006. Kentucky's plan is the product of a series of regional focus group sessions and a strategic planning session held in late 2005. During these gatherings, Kentucky's public safety practitioners shared experiences and visions for improving public safety communications and interoperability state-wide. The plan relies on a locally driven strategy, in which the knowledge and needs of local responders are drawn on to build the appropriate initiatives for improved emergency response.
4/3/2008
Missouri SIEC Memorandum of Understanding
September 2005. This Memorandum of Understanding must be signed by applicant agencies seeking to operate FCC designated VHF/UHF multi-discipline interoperability channels in accordance with Missouri State Interoperability Executive Committee guidelines. By virtue of signing and submitting this MOU, the applicant affirms its willingness to comply with the proper operation of the interoperability channels.
4/3/2008
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), Report to the President on Emergency Communications and Interoperability
The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee commissioned a two-part effort to (1) urgently identify specific actions to improve emergency communications and interoperability in the short term and (2) identify mid- to long-term policy recommendations and technology solutions to enhance collaboration across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries to help our country better prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies. The Committee recommends a plan to support deployable communications resources that will provide resiliency in the face of major system failures.
4/3/2008
Nevada Radio Communications Interoperability Project (RCIP)
Nevada's plan not only outlines the proposed project but also idenfies the documents used for reference in the generation of this Project Plan and Scope document.
4/3/2008
North Carolina Interoperability Plan
(6 MB file), December 2004. The North Carolina plan is called the Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders (VIPER). The project's goal is to move forward with the construction of a statewide voice radio communications system at an estimated cost of $190 million.
4/3/2008
North Carolina Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders (VIPER)
The VIPER website describes the new system as an expansion of the earlier Motorola radio system owned by the State.
4/3/2008
State of Ohio Interoperable Communications Plan
October 2005. Ohio's plan offers ten recommendations and solutions that are generally technical in nature. The first five recommendations focus on short- to intermediate-term solutions that can make a significant improvement in interoperability relatively quickly and inexpensively.
4/3/2008
Why Can't We Talk - National Task Force on Interoperability
National Task Force on Interoperability, Feb. 2005. Interoperability among the public safety communications systems of different agencies has been an enduring challenge in the industry, one highlighted by recent major disasters. To address this problem, 18 national associations (representing State and local officials and public safety officials) formed a task force. They wrote this guide to provide a basic explanation of the complex obstacles to interoperability among systems and to provide strategies for the planning and funding of systems achieving interoperability.
4/3/2008
Wisconsin Interoperability Plan
The Wisconsin State Interoperability Executive Council developed this state plan, which outlines public safety mutual aid and on-scene tactical radio communications frequencies available in Wisconsin. It encourages all public safety and governmental agencies to implement these frequencies.