Statewide Radio Network Board

The Statewide Radio Network Board is chartered to establish standards for statewide radio and network system operations. This board will work closely with all departments and agencies to identify radio and network requirements for the statewide system to ensure that agency program requirements are met to the maximum extent possible.

The Statewide Radio and Network System Reserve Fund, has been established as an internal service fund in the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Information Technology, for the purposes of managing the fund and acquiring, expanding, upgrading and replacing a statewide radio and network system for use by state agencies. The office shall charge a fee to agencies using the statewide radio and network system in accordance with an established rate structure. Revenues derived from operations must be used to pay the costs of the lease-purchase to acquire a system, expand, upgrade and replace the system, and to manage the fund.

The Enterprise Radio Services office has been working with a core team of professionals from Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Conservation, Public Safety, Maine Department of Transportation, Marine Patrol, Judicial, Corrections and the Maine Emergency Management Agency, to consolidate the radio communication systems statewide.