Outreach News 9/8/2010

1. 700 MHz Rebanding – The Commission has granted a partial waiver of its rules to the ORION network serving a portion of southeastern Virginia.

ORION EXPANSION FREQUENCIES -- REQUEST FOR INTERIM WAIVER RELIEF AND SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORIZATION. Granted in part request. Action by: Chief, Policy Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. Adopted: 09/07/2010 by LETTER. (DA No. 10-1697). PSHSB
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ERRATUM - ORION EXPANSION FREQUENCIES - REQUEST FOR INTERIM WAIVER RELIEF AND SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORIZATION. Issued an Erratum correcting a Letter, DA 10-1697 released on September 7, 2010. Action by: Chief, Policy Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau by ERRATUM. PSHSB http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-301362A1.doc
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2. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Managing Director Steven VanRoekel announced a suite of new tools designed to unlock FCC data and drive innovation across the public and private sectors. The suite of tools released by the FCC includes a number of APIs (Application Programming Interface) -- interfaces that enable communication between independent databases -- for use by developers across a broad range of industries, including federal, state, and local government. The FCC also announced the creation of a developer community (http://www.fcc.gov/developer) designed to help drive future releases through feedback and collaboration.

FCC UNLOCKS GOVERNMENT DATA WITH NEW ONLINE TOOLS. News Release. News Media Contact: Jen Howard, (202) 418-0506, Jen.Howard@fcc.gov OCH http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-301333A1.doc
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3. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), along with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Commerce, hosted the National Forum on Public Safety Broadband Needs, held in Washington, D.C., August 19-20,2010. The forum was attended by 2l active public safety practitioners on behalf of l5 of the original 700MHz waiver applicants and represent a cross-section of urban, state, rural, and tribal public safety practitioners (law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services) from around the country. The forum was designed to convene key participants from the public safety practitioner community to help identify, discuss, and develop solutions and recommendations that will help accurately reflect public safety's operational and business requirements for a national public safety broadband network. The participants also helped define public safety's meaning of terms such as "public safety broadband," "emergency" in the context of public safety broadband, and the public safety operational requirements for the National Public Safety Broadband Network.

The Report of the Forum is attached.