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Maine State
Communications Network
Outreach Session Presentation
March 2012
Wayne Gallant
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SOM OIT & MSCommNet Project Office
Wayne Gallant, Craig Hitchings, Stanley Fage
State Radio Operations
John Covert, Supervisor
Maine State Police
LTC Bessette
MEMA
Bruce Fitzgerald
Harris RF Communications
Ken Steere
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– Co-locaters
• Vern Ouellette
Aroostook County
EMA Director
(Cyr Mountain)
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– Co-locaters
• Renee Wellman
Hancock County
RCC/9-1-1
Communications
Director
(Cadillac Mountain)
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– Co-locaters
• Tim Hardy, Franklin County EMA Director
(Mt. Blue)
new MSCommNet tower at Coggan’s Hill
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• MSCommNet - Objectives
– Reliable voice communications (push-to-talk, 1 to many)
– Replace and consolidate outdated (30+ year) infrastructure
– Geographical coverage
– Increased capacity
– Interoperability
– Regulatory compliance
• FCC VHF narrowbanding mandate: January 1, 2013
• MSCommNet - Priorities
– Maximize State resources
– Reduce development and operating costs
– Long term technical scalability
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Adjacent Modernization Projects
MSCommNet
BIDP
County
Co-Locaters
DHS CBP
TACCOM
New Hampshire Public Safety
USCG Rescue 21
MSCommNet Project Office Manager
Office of Information Technology (OIT)
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MSCommNet Project Status
Land Acquisition & Site Civil Construction
Land Acquisition
Site Civil Construction
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50%
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50% 25
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• IA•
A & Mountaintop policy
• Public hearings
• Unique construction
• Photos
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Mt. Blue
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MSCommNet Project Schedule
Contract Signed
System Design
Demonstration & Simulation
Site Civil Construction
Subscriber equipment installation and deployment
Cutover to narrowband => then to full MSCommNet
Warranty
source: Maine Office of Information Technology, March 2012
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Ken Steere
Project Manager
FREQUENCY
STATUS
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302 Frequencies Required: 99 approved & 200+ at the FCC for review
• FCC Industrial / Business Frequencies
– AAR Waiver being reviewed by Commission
– Public Notice / Public Comment Period completed
• National Telecommunications & Information Administration
(NTIA)
– Department of the Interior MOU executed
– 86 frequencies at NTIA review
• DOI returned with 27 recommendations/balance in process
• Congressional Delegation Coordination
– Coordinated letter to FCC from both Maine Senators in process
• FCC Narrow banding Waiver Deadline Extension Request
– Submitted to FCC on 22-Dec 2011
– Anticipated approval in the Spring 2012
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Bruce Fitzgerald
MEMA Director (Acting)
Border Interoperability
Demonstration Project
• Three year grant period (FY2011 – 2014)
• $3,963,000 from DHS Office of Emergency Communications (OEC)
• Partners: Washington, Aroostook, Somerset, Franklin, Oxford Counties;
Passamaquoddy Tribal Nation; State of Maine agencies; US Customs &
Border Protection; Quebec and New Brunswick agencies
• GOAL: Near continuous coverage along the entire border, to include remote areas
• Aligns with Maine’s SCIP strategic initiatives and goals
• Coordination with neighbor states and country
• Partnership with Canada to help streamline the Line A approval
process
• Radio infrastructure build out
• Communications planning activities
• Cross-border training and exercise
Border Interoperability
Demonstration Project
Challenges Addressed:
• 611 miles of Maine – Canada border
• Daily interoperability with Canadian
mutual aid partners
• Numerous coverage “dead spots” in
extremely rural, rugged terrain
• FCC Narrowband mandate
Proposed Solutions for BIDP:
• New and updated towers, repeaters
• Cross-border radio caches
• SOPs for interoperability during mutual aid
• Training and exercise on SOPs
• US – Canada Interoperability Channel (USCIC)
Border Interoperability
Demonstration Project
FCC Narrowband Mandate
Readiness Activities
• Purchase of Kenwood, Motorola and ICOM
portable, mobile, and base station radios
• Technical assistance for NB frequency re- licensing issues (through County EMAs and SWIC)
• Planning grants to County EMAs for NB
coordination
• “Narrowband Primer” document
• Narrowband: Are You Ready? awareness dvd
and resource materials
• Quarterly SCIP newsletter
FCC Narrowband Mandate
Readiness Activities
Radio Purchasing Strategy:
• Standards based inventory evaluations at PD/FD/EMS/EMA agencies to determine minimum replacement needs for non-NB capable radios
• Utilizing remaining FY2007 PSIC Grant funds
• Remaining PSIC funds may be used to purchase additional radios for municipal public works and school departments
• Remaining PSIC funds may be used to address new coverage gaps as agencies transition to NB frequencies
FCC Narrowband Mandate
Readiness Activities
Stan Fage
MSCommNet Radio Project Office
Office of Information Technology
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MSCommNet Rollout
• Two Phases
– | 2012: | User Equipment Legacy System |
– | 2013: | MSCommNet Cutover |
• Other Considerations
– FCC Narrowband Mandate
• State Legacy System (Repeaters, User Equipment)
• CONOPS
• Legacy User Equipment Redistribution
– Construction Completion
– Acceptance Testing (Site, System, Coverage)
– RegionNet & MSP Zone Dispatch Broadcast
– Frequency plan completion
Action
Jan Feb Mar
Oct Nov Dec
ment Order
Manufacture & Deliver
Installation MSP Zon
Houlton
2013 Schedule 2014
Action Jan Feb Mar IApr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Acceptance Testing
Site
System
Coverage
MSCommNet Cutover
by MSP Zone Houlton Orono Augusta Gray
Legacy Decommissioning
LTC Ray Bessette
Maine State Police
RegionNet Interoperability Layer
with Municipal, County, Tribal, State & Federal agencies
• 2-way interoperability (MSCommNet repeater at 40 sites)
• MSP Zone Dispatch Broadcast Service on selected RegionNet repeaters
• Protocols required for incident management
• Expanded geographical coverage
• currently 9 MSP repeater sites
• will have 17 MSCommNet repeater sites
Ken Steere
Project Manager
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P5400 Portable VHF
32
Unity® XG-100P Portable
Full-Spectrum Multiband
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bile VHF
C3 Maestro™ Dispatch Console
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