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700-MHz Demonstration Network — Participate in the work groups formed for the Public Safety 700-MHz Demonstration Network PSCR is implementing to provide manufacturers a location (view a Google Earth flyover) for early deployment and evaluation of their systems in a multi-vendor environment.

Modified Rhyme Test — A PSCR study to understand how background noise (listen to samples) affects fire fighter LMR (land mobile radio) voice communications.

PSCR is providing public safety video application research samples to the CDVL (Consumer Digital Video Library), which PSCR helped to launch. Margaret H. Pinson leads the PSCR program’s CDVL efforts. See her ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.) SIGMM (Special Interest Group on Multimedia) interview, “An Interview with Video Quality Experts.”

 Highlights

JUN 20-24, 2010 (New Orleans, LA) — PSCR hosted a session in the Interoperable Communications and Information Sharing track at the National UASI Conference. The session provided updates on our latest work in P25 (Project 25) standards/CAP (Compliance Assessment Program), 700-MHz broadband, video quality, and audio quality.

JUN 17, 2010 — The PSCR program's Andrew Thiessen is a panelist in the webinar discussion, “The Future of Interoperability and Project 25.” Presented by Urgent Communications.

Pubnlic Safety communications hearing.
View witness statements and watch the testimony.

MAY 27, 2010 — The PSCR program's Dereck Orr testifies before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.

 

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The PSCR (Public Safety Communications Research) program provides research, development, testing, and evaluation to foster nationwide first-responder communications interoperability. The PSCR program provides insight to wireline and wireless standards committees developing standards for voice, data, image, and video communications.

Housed within the U.S. Department of Commerce Labs in Boulder, Colorado, the PSCR program is a joint effort between:
The PSCR program has earned two Department of Commerce Gold Medal awards for the performance of applied engineering and research to advance public safety communications interoperability. The PSCR program's engineering and research is sponsored by: