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State Interoperability Executive Council outlines SCIP priorities, NG911 progress and FirstNet adoption
Summary
State Interoperability Executive Council chair Tony DeBoehn and the statewide interoperability coordinator updated the legislature on Oregon’s Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan, Next Generation 911 deployment, grant priorities and FirstNet rollout, and described a statutory proposal to formalize current program arrangements.
Commissioner Tony DeBoehn, chair of the State Interoperability Executive Council, and William Chapman, Oregon’s statewide interoperability coordinator (SWIC), told the Joint Committee on Information Management and Technology on March 28 that Oregon is continuing work to make emergency communications “seamless, interoperable and resilient.”
Chapman said the state’s SCIP (Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan) contains seven strategic goals and more than 80 tactical objectives that guide priorities for technology, governance, training and grant investments. He told the committee Oregon uses the SCIP to vet federal grant proposals and to provide statewide grant guidance and investment priorities for emergency communications projects.
The committee heard updates on Next Generation 911. Chapman said the Federal Communications Commission recently finalized rules that define NG911 and ESInet systems and described Oregon objectives to deploy a next‑generation ready ESInet to primary 9‑1‑1 centers and state command…
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