With a 140% communications interoperability proposed budget increase, Louisiana is spearheading the implementation of sweeping interoperability communications reforms forecasted to spread across the U.S. From this new budget of $34 million, 61% will be spent on connectivity in north Louisiana, 11% on portable radios for local and state responders, 25% on system maintenance and the rest for new interoperability staff positions. The tragic consequences of Hurricane Katrina made all too evident the drastic need for communications interoperability reform.
Louisiana, the most battered from Katrina is now one of the first to take the problem head on and spend the necessary funding. Some states are way ahead of Louisiana; some are still waiting for the realization of the need to perculate down the corridors of their state house; but the trend is clear: by the middle of the next decade, the United States will by and large have a greatly improved communications interoperability network, actually capable of delivering in time of need.
The report "U.S. & EU HLS Communications Interoperability Markets & Technology Forecast - 2008-2012" analyzes the evolution of interoperable communications markets and technologies in the Homeland Security and Public Safety sectors.
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