SAFECOM/NCSWIC Meeting in Norman, OK | National Public Safety Telecommunications Council

On November 3-4, 2015, SAFECOM and the National Council Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC) members convened in Norman, Oklahoma, to collaborate on current and future initiatives affecting public safety emergency communications. Meeting sessions focused on a variety of pressing topics related to emergency communications, including governance for emergency communications, maintaining and upgrading land mobile radio systems, T-Band spectrum, the Communications Unit, grant guidance for emergency communications, and encryption.

DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas addressed SAFECOM and NCSWIC members in a keynote address through video teleconference. The Deputy Secretary expressed his continued commitment to SAFECOM’s and NCSWIC’s missions, highlighting the importance of public safety communications across all levels of government, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and even the public. He also emphasized the importance of coordinated partnerships at the federal, state, local, and territorial levels for achieving sustainable interoperable communications, and conveyed his commitment toward realizing the work SAFECOM members and the Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (SWICs) do in their respective associations and states.