Interoperability Library

Resource Library

• Governor Kaine Appoints new CIC
• National Interoperability Field Operations Guide (794kb)
• Executive Directive 7- continuing the State Interoperability Executive Committee (135kb)
• Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) White Paper (1,215K)
  
• EF Johnson Company’s Standards Position (54K)
  
• National Capital Region (NCR) Metropolitan Interoperability Radio System (MIRS) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) (101K)
  
• National Capital Region (NCR) Radio Cache Deployment Procedure (59K)
  
• Project 25 Training Guide (482 K)
  
• Public Safety Architecture Framework (PSAF) Vol1 (1,217K)
  
• Public Safety Architecture Framework (PSAF) Vol2 (2,286K)
  
• SAFECOM Grant Guidance FY06 (1,445K)
  
• Statement of Requirements V1 (1,658K)
  
• VA State Interoperability Executive Committee (SIEC) (26K)
  

Outreach and Marketing Information

• Advisory Group One Pager (89K)
• Commonwealth Interoperability Coordinator's Office (CICO) One Pager (89K)
• Initiative Action Teams (IAT's) One Pager (89K)
• Interop One Pager (331K)
• SIEC One Pager (84K)

Reports and Studies / Background

• International Association of Fire Chief's (IFAC's) Top Priority:  A Fire Service Guide to Interoperable Communications
  A guidebook that provides fire and emergency services with a comprehensive understanding of interoperability. Although written from a fire-service perspective, the handbook can be used by fire departments, emergency medical services, law enforcement agencies and emergency managers.
  (1.35 Mb)
  
  
• International Association of Fire Chief's (IFAC's) Radio Communications for the Fire Service
  A comprehensive guide to assist fire and emergency services agencies in the selection and implementation of mission critical radio communications systems.
  (1.2 MB)
  
  
• SAFECOM's Overview of Interoperability Planning Efforts across the States
  (383 K) | (320 K)
  
  
• Virginia Governance of Communications Interoperability
  (357 K) | (278 K)
  
  
• Virginia SIEC: Interoperability Accomplishments (2005)
  (689 K) | (691 K)

Presentations

• Interoperability in Virginia:  An Overview
  (3.55 Mb)   |   (3.44 Mb)
  
• Improving Wireless Communications and Interoperability (a SAFECOM presentation)
  (1.9 Mb)
  
• Virginia Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Conference
  (2.18 Mb- read only)   |   (1.22 Mb)

Articles

• Commonality in the Commonwealth (3.75MB) (Homeland Security Today Magazine)
   
• Virginia Puts Interoperability Together  (MissionCritical article, May 2005)
  
  
• Safecom SCIPs Across States (FCW.com article, January 27, 2005)
  
  
• SAFECOM and Virginia Team Up (33K) ( Va Firefighters magazine article, December 2004)
  
  
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rules on 800 MHz Interference (24K) (FCC news release, July 8, 2004)
  
• Bridging Devices in Disparate Bands (Mobile Radio Technology, May 1, 2004)
  
  
• Responders Can Communicate (from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Tuesday, August 22, 2006)
  
  
• View the Strategic Plan for the 2007 Fiscal Year!
  (13MB)
• Responders Move Towards NIMS Protocols (505K)
• 10-4 on Your 10-20 (284K)
• Did you hear that? (192K)

Newsletters

• Virginia Interoperability newsletter - Spring 2007 (pdf, 1.8 mb)
• Virginia Interoperability newsletter - Winter 2007 (pdf, 3.9 mb)
• Virginia Interoperability newsletter - Spring 2006 (165 k)
• Virginia Interoperability newsletter - Winter 2006 (132 k)

Initiative Action Teams (IAT's) Recommendations

• IAT Recommendations Report 3 (82K)
• IAT Recommendations Report 4 (774K)
• IAT Recommendations Report 5 (64K)
• IAT Recommendations Report 6 (57K)
• IAT Recommendations Report 7 (54K)

Archives

• 2007 Interoperability Communications Conference
• 2006 Interoperability Communications Conference
• 2005 Interoperability Communications Conference
• 2004 Interoperability Communications Conference
• Focus Group Reports
  
  
  
• FY 2008 Strat Plan (3.98MB)
• FY 2007 Strat Plan (6MB)
• FY 2006 Strat Plan (1,755K)
• FY 2005 Strat Plan (971K)

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