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State officials tell senators SIREN will move from build to operations with additional staff and ongoing costs
Summary
NDIT briefed the Senate subcommittee on the statewide interoperable radio network (SIREN), describing tower buildouts, a transition to operations in the next biennium, an operational funding tail partly supported by a 50-cent communications fee, and a request for six positions to sustain operations.
State Information Technology officials told the Senate Appropriations Human Resources subcommittee that the statewide interoperable radio network (SIREN) is entering an operational phase that will require new staffing and recurring funding.
"This next biennium is really where we're starting to wrap up that project phase and getting everything operational," Craig Valkley, chief technology officer at NDIT, told the subcommittee. He said several cities (Williston, Minot, Grand Forks and Bismarck) are already live on the system and that tower buildouts are underway across the state.
Officials said the project will expand from roughly 45 towers to about 140 tower sites and from about 4,000…
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