This column provides a comprehensive look at the makeup and reviews the successes of the Department of Homeland Security SAFECOM Program. The SAFECOM Program was established in 2001 as a Presidential ...

Cpl. Albert Gaston, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense specialist with the CBRN response element (CRE), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, relays a report while inspecting a ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in partnership with SAFECOM and the National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC), has released the Emergency ...

Funding for Safecom has been slow to arrive. According to the GAO report, the Homeland Security Department received only $17 million of the $34.9 million in fiscal 2003 funding allocated to Safecom by ...

	The Homeland Security Department released the request for information for Project Safecom, the initiative to connect wireless first-responder systems across federal, state and local agencies.

Over the last several months, I have received numerous questions about interoperable communication solutions and grant funding. Vendors and emergency service agencies alike have asked this question.

Federal officials unveiled a model plan yesterday that state officials can use to build grass-roots statewide interoperable communication networks. Officials for the Homeland Security Department's ...

The Homeland Security Department's Safecom program management office plans to release a broad agency announcement soliciting technical interoperability solutions from companies by the end of this ...