September 23, 2016–The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) Radio Programming Compatibility Requirements (PCR) Working Group is working to automate the Programming and Management (PAM) tool, now in its third version. NPSTC released the PAM tool, a spreadsheet designed to import and export Project 25 (P25) programming data, in 2014. The PCR Working Group is hoping to automate the process of populating numerous vendors’ data across the nomenclature translating spreadsheet.
Read more here: NPSTC Works to Automate PAM P25 Radio Programming Tool