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The Department of Homeland Security is running a number of initiatives aimed at making it easier for emergency workers to communicate with one another, many of which involve developing better, more universal radios and equipment. But its Science and Technology Directorate announced last week that it is almost ready to release data from a pilot program that approaches the problem in a different way: getting the radio on one side of a police officer’s belt to communicate with the cell phone on the other side. The Radio Over Wireless Broadband, or ROW-B, project is partly a recognition that the hodgepodge of communications systems used by safety officers all over the country — including older, analog Land-Mobile Radios, push-to-talk cell phones, smart phones, and more sophisticated multiband radios — isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
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