Public Safety Imperatives for All-IP Networks
Federal Communications Commission
Thursday, April 17, 2014 9 am - 5:45 pm
Friday, April 18, 2014
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The workshop will bring together representatives from public safety agencies and organizations, service providers, technology vendors, and other stakeholders to explore the impact of the technology transition on key public safety, emergency response, and national security functions. The workshop will seek to identify the conditions, rebuttable presumptions, and relevant factors that are needed to ensure that core public safety values are supported in the transition to an all IP-based infrastructure.
The workshop will be comprised of four sessions that will focus on current public safety, emergency response and national security dependencies on
legacy switched telecommunications infrastructure and challenges in four categories: (1) day-today public safety operations in an all-IP world; (2) disaster preparation and responses in an all-IP world; (3) additional risk factors from cyber exploits on commercial, public and government networks; and (4) the impact of technology transitions on national security and federal government systems. Participants will share their real world expertise and contribute their individual views and analysis as to how an all-IP-based infrastructure can support a range of public safety mission requirements. Participants will also discuss the public safety criteria that should be applied to the technology transitions.
AGENDA
Day 1: Thursday, April 17, 2014 – Commission Meeting Room (TW-C305)
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
David G. Simpson, Rear Admiral (Ret.) USN, Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), FCC
9:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Overview of FCC Technology Transition Order
Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technology Officer, FCC
9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session 1: Incident Response During and After the Technology Transition
This session will discuss communications requirements for public safety incident response in an all-IP-based infrastructure. Session participants will address incident scenarios that involve multiple 911 communications, dispatch and mutual aid, coordination of multifunctional and multi-jurisdictional response, and issuance of public alerts and warnings.
Moderator:
David Furth, Deputy Chief, PSHSB, FCC
Session Participants:
- Robert Bunge, National Weather Service
- John Chiaramonte, Mission Critical Partners
- Michael Ernst, AT&T Mobility Services LLC
- Bill Ferretti, Montgomery County, MD
- Trey Forgety, National Emergency Number Association (NENA)
- Terry Hall, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International
- Brian Josef, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA)
- Jason Lagria, Asian Americans Advancing Justice
- Timothy Lorello, TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS)
- Richard Muscat, Bexar Metro 911 Network District (Austin, TX)
- Richard Ray, City of Los Angeles, Department on Disability, Disability Access and Services
- John Snapp, Intrado, Inc.
- Thomas Sorley, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC)
- Dorothy Spears-Dean, Virginia Information Technologies Agency and National Association of State 911 Administrators (NASNA)
- Petr Valkoun, Commnet Wireless
- Wade Witmer, Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Session 2: Disaster Preparedness and Response During and After the Technology Transition
This session will examine the challenges that disasters and emergencies bring to an all-IP-based infrastructure and to the operational procedures for each stakeholder. Session participants will discuss IP-based capabilities that can assist with disaster response and life-saving activities, as well as how the transition to IP infrastructure affects restoration of communications services.
Moderator:
Eric Panketh, Chief, Operations and Emergency Management Division, PSHSB, FCC
Session Participants:
- Tony Bardo, Hughes Network Systems
- Kevin Breault, Bandwidth.com
- Kenneth C. Budka, Alcatel-Lucent
- Michael Ernst, AT&T Mobility Services LLC
- Trey Forgety, National Emergency Number Association (NENA)
- Ronald Hewitt, Office of Emergency Communications, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Steven Johnson, Johnson Telecom, LLC
- Brian Josef, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA)
- Brent Lee, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International
- Barry Luke, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC)
- Joel Margolis, Subsentio
- Rosa Mendoza, Hispanic Technology and Telecommunications Partnership
- Richard Ray, City of Los Angeles, Department on Disability, Disability Access and Services
- Dorothy Spears-Dean, Virginia Information Technologies Agency and
- National Association of State 911 Administrators (NASNA)
- Kelly Williams, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
- Jeff Wittek, Cassidian
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Session 3: Cyber Risks to Commercial, Public and Governmental Networks During and After the Transition
This session will examine the challenges that cyber exploits pose for public safety communications and operations. Session participants will be presented with various scenarios positing different types of cyber exploits that could disrupt emergency communications and operations in an all-IP environment.
Moderator:
Jeffery Goldthorp, Associate Chief, PSHSB, FCC
Session Participants:
- Mark Adams, Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Jefferson England, Silver Star Communications
- Patrick Flynn, McAfee, Inc.
- Trey Forgety, National Emergency Number Association (NENA)
- Mike Gordon, Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Robert Mayer, USTelecom
- Phil Roberts, The Internet Society
- Brian Rosen, Neustar, Inc.
- Richard Shockey, SIP Forum
- John Wright, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International
5:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Concluding Remarks
Day 2: Friday, April 18, 2014 [FEDERAL INTERAGENCY PARTICIPANTS ONLY]
Session 4: Technology Transition and National Security/Federal Government Systems
This session will discuss the impact of the transition on Federal programs and systems, including readiness, reliability, and remediation. Due to the sensitivity of the matter under discussion, this session will be limited to invited federal interagency participants and closed to the public. However, a public synopsis of the session will be made available after the event.