PUBLIC SAFETY LAND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS PARTICIPATION IN A PANEL DISCUSSION

Notice Date

May 8, 2001

Contracting Office

U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, ERF -- Bldg. #27958A, Quantico, VA 22135

ZIP Code

22135

Description

The Public Safety Wireless Network (PSWN) Program will sponsor its 13th regional symposium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 19-21, 2001. (See www.pswn.gov or call 1-800-565-PSWN for additional information on the symposium.) POC Derek M. Siegle, Program Manager, PSWN Program, Department of Justice; Julio R. Murphy, Program Manager, PSWN Program, Department of the Treasury. This symposium, like earlier ones, is intended to stimulate networking and firsthand information exchanges about developing interoperable public safety land mobile radio communications systems. Past symposiums have attracted local, state, and federal public safety officials who share information about systems planning, site acquisition, funding, spectrum, and other relevant information. The symposium will include a panel discussion consisting of LMR communications systems equipment manufacturers. This activity will be a moderated panel discussion with participation by interested companies that manufacture radio communications equipment that supports public safety users. The session is planned for June 21, 2001 from 1:30-2:40 p.m. The panel moderator will be a member of the public safety community. The moderator will stimulate discussion among the panel participants through questions including, but not limited to, vendor products, status of research and development activities, specific efforts toward achieving interoperability, and issues/questions concerning published standards. Symposium attendees will be encouraged to participate by asking relevant questions. A limited number of spaces are available for vendor participation. Vendors will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, while ensuring that all interests are addressed. The PSWN Program believes that manufacturers of land mobile radio equipment typically used by public safety entities will find this panel discussion applicable to their respective businesses. The participating vendors will not be allowed to provide presentations, individual briefings, or marketing presentations, and sales rhetoric will be discouraged. Information exchange and dialogue will take place only in the form of responses to questions posed by the moderator, symposium attendees or other panelists to vendor panelists, who will each be allowed to respond in kind. Vendor marketing materials such as banners, brochures, slick sheets, actual equipment, etc., will not be allowed in the room where the symposium is taking place or in the general vicinity of the room (e.g., registration area). The PSWN Program will not provide transportation, per diem, or other resources or support for vendors participating in the panel discussion. Only one representative from each participating vendor will be allowed to sit on the panel. Equipment manufacturers desiring to send a representative to participate in the panel discussion should make their request via e-mail (preferred), by fax, or in writing to: Mrs. Carole Kirsch, Engineering Research Facility, Building 27958A, Quantico, Virginia 22135, (E-mail cakirsch@earthlink.net, Phone: 703-279-2006, Fax: 703-279-2032). Requests must specify company and participant by name, and provide the following point-of-contact information: business mailing address, phone, fax, and email. Requests should be received no later than May 184, 2001. Participation in the panel will be confirmed by May 25, 2001.

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010510/SPMSC010.HTM (W-128 SN50L4V0)