CA OES, Interoperability Project

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The Statewide Public Safety Radio
Interoperability Project

California’s residents deserve reliable public safety services. The federal, state, and local agencies providing these services require efficient wireless voice and data communications systems to receive the public’s requests for service, to coordinate the delivery of those services, and to communicate life-safety information among responders. A sufficiently robust and secure public safety radio communications voice and data infrastructure supporting federal, state, and local agency communications is critical to California’s future security, health, welfare and vibrancy. California’s size and diverse geography create unique challenges in designing and providing public safety communications systems to meet the needs of the state’s population in a cost-effective manner.

Today there are regions of significant interoperability within California, but much remains to be done to address both systems modernization and interoperability. The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is working in conjunction with numerous agencies at all levels of government to assure that California keeps moving aggressively toward public safety radio interoperability.

PSRSPC
The Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee (PSRSPC) was established by the Public Safety Communications Act of 2002 [AB 2018 (Nakano); Chapter 1091, Statutes of 2002]. PSRSPC continues an ad hoc effort underway since 1994 to develop and implement an integrated statewide public safety communications system for state agencies that fosters shared use and interoperability with local and federal public safety agencies.

To visit the PSRSPC website go to http://psrspc.oes.ca.gov

CALSIEC
The California Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (CALSIEC) was established in 2003 by OES, in response to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tasking to the states, to manage the federally-designated interoperability spectrum in the new 700 MHz band. OES extended the FCC’s tasking by expanding the CALSIEC charter to include all state and federally-designated interoperability spectrum in California on behalf of all public safety users. CALSIEC is a public safety driven (local, tribal, state, and federal) process, working to establish technical and operational standards by consensus among all public safety users in California.

To visit the CalSIEC website go to CalSIEC Homepage

If you have a question, suggestion, or comment, or are a public safety communications practitioner interested in participating in the process of developing and managing California’s interoperability spectrum, please contact the OES Communications and Technology Development Branch's Interoperability Programs Unit on 916.845.8630, or interop@oes.ca.gov.

Statewide Radio System Assessment Survey
The California Statewide Strategic Planning Committee (CALSIEC) and the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee (PSRSPC) are collaborating on a public safety radio systems assessment in California. The assessment addresses systems at all levels of government and related agencies, and analyzes their interoperability. This information will help the state in designing and implementing a statewide interoperable radio system.

To visit the assessment survey website go to http://survey.oes.ca.gov