Project 25 News

Welcome! December 01, 2022

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The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) held it’s Annual Meeting on Thursday October 27^th

The meeting was presided over by: Cindy Cast, Chair PTIG, and Radio Systems Manager- Miami Dade County Florida, Steve Nichols, Executive Director, Project 25 Technology Interest Group, and Cheryl Giggetts, Treasurer PTIG, and Principal- CTA Consultants.

A Board of Directors and slate of Officers were elected including some returning members and two new members from the P25 Community.

The Officers for the coming 2021-2022 year include: Chair: Cindy Cast, Radio Systems Manager: Miami Dade County; Vice Chair: Jim Holthaus, USDOJ; Treasurer: Cheryl Giggetts, Principal, CTA Consultants; Secretary: Andy Davis, Motorola Solutions, Chair TIA TR-8.

Incoming New PTIG Board Members Include: Dave Collette, IT Manager, Public Safety System; Nebraska Office of the CIO and Ronald E. Williscroft, City of Winnipeg, Fire Paramedic Service, Director of 911 Communications; APCO Canada, Board of Directors

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Returning PTIG Board Members Include: Rick Schmahl, MARCS Program Director and SWIC, State of Ohio; Siralal Mallawa Arachchi, Principal Technical Advisor, New Zealand Police, Nina Boe, Chief, Radio Applications & Networks, P25 System Administrator & Program Manager: Pennsylvania State Police; Amy Lawrence, Marketing Program Manager, Viavi Solutions; Michael Schafer, President, Compliance Testing; Nick Pennance, Chief Revenue Officer, Tait; Robert Kwapisz, LMR Solutions Manager, Zetron (a Codan Company); Rich Cagle, Chief Growth Officer, Mission Critical Partners; Brad Stoddard, State of Michigan; Brandon Diemer BLM NIFC; John Richards, State of Maine; Scott Wright, State of Connecticut;; Justin Evans, Montgomery County TX; Mark Ketchum, City of Broken Arrow OK; Sonia Kendall, US Coast Guard;; Doug Chapman; Etherstack; Robin Grier, Catalyst; Dominick Arcuri, Televate; Jeremy Elder L3Harris.

A number of PTIG Board Members retired this year including: Chris Maiers, State of Iowa and Eddie Reyes, Prince William County VA. They are recognized and thanked for their years of loyal participation and service to P25 and PTIG.

PTIG welcomed three new Commercial Members over the past year. Mission Critical Partners, ADCOMM Engineering, and ADCOM Technologies all joined the group. In addition Zetron, a Codan Company, and L3 Harris both upgraded their membership to “Founder Level”

Commenting on the previous year’s activities, Stephen Nichols, PTIG Director stated; “We emerged from the COVID fog with renewed energy, strong conference & trade show activity, and increased participation and interest in Project 25. Our Mission continues with the development and sharing of information about P25 Standards, Benefits, Applications, and Market. Thanks go to our member companies and P25 agency representatives for their continued loyal support and participation. The Primary Focus during the past year has been to, celebrate our 30th Anniversary accomplishments, to offer updates on new P25 Standards including their applications & benefits to Public Safety & government, and to reinforce the need for continued funding and development for P25”.

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The Project 25 Technology Interest Group meets via web MS Teams Meeting on the 4^th Thursday of each month at 3:30 PM Eastern. If you would like to become a member, contact Stephen Nichols: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Details: 09 November 2022

The Project 25 Tedchnology Interest Group is pleased to publish the latest P25 Standards Update

Author: Andy Davis, TIA TR-8 Committee Chair.

This includes slides from Andy's latest August 2022 P25 Standards Update as well as a more comprehensive presentation from his presentation on the PTIG P25 panel at APCO 2022 in Anaheim.

The Full pdf document can be downloaded using the link below:

P25 TIA TR-8 Standards Update August 2022

Details: 25 August 2022

The Project 25 Technology Interest Group is pleased to publish a link to a recent Mission Critical Communications article “30 years of Project 25: Transcending Boundaries, Enabling Interoperability”

The article was co authored by Jim Downes, P25 Steering Committee Chair and Stephen Nichols, PTIG Executive Director.

The full article can be downloaded using the link below:

30 Years of Project 25, Transcending Boundaries, Enabling Interoperability MCC August 2022

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Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies continue to embrace Project 25 (P25) as the de facto American National Standards Institute’s accredited technical standards for LMR communications interoperability. Thirty years ago, P25 began as a user requirements-driven standards development process and remains that way today. P25 has enabled nationwide holistic interoperability for mutual aid that led to preprogrammed channels, common infrastructure, flexible subscriber units (SUs) and talk- group naming conventions — forever changing the effectiveness of field response and operations for public-safety first responders.

The continuing objective of P25 is to provide critical communications capabilities while enabling comprehensive interoperability between public-safety responders to achieve enhanced coordination, timely response, and efficient and effective use of communications resources.

Today, P25 continues to transcend boundaries to enable comprehensive operability and interoperability for the public-safety community

Details: 25 August 2022

The Project 25 Technology Interest Group is pleased to publish

Two new PTIG P25 presentations from APCO 2022 in Anaheim.

The full PPT presentations can be downloaded using the links below.

P25 for the Future PTIG panel PPT APCO 2022

P25 Revealed PTIG panel PPT APCO 2022

Project 25 for the Future

Learn what's new for P25 in 2022 and beyond. See how the technology is adapting and interworking to meet the changing technology eco-system.

Get the latest P25 technology update including: New P25 standards, and priorities going forward and LMR interworking with LTE and Mission-Critical PTT. Explore P25 Inter-System Interface (ISSI) capabilities and best practices for interoperability through roaming and sharing region-wide, and state-wide. Learn about P25 Location Services Standards and their real-world applications. Strong interest in Communications Security and Encryption is growing. Review improved Security and Encryption capabilities including a new P25 Link Layer Encryption standard, and improved AES Key Management. Explore P25 Testing solutions and resources including: DHS CAP program, Independent Lab capabilities and In building testing.

Our Panel includes: Jim Downes, Chair of the Project 25 Steering Committee; Andy Davis Chair of TIA TR-8 (The committees that manages and develops the P25 Standards Documents); Jeremy Elder, P25 SME from L3Harris; and Scott Wright, State of Connecticut P25 Systems Manager and P25 Steering Committee Member.

Project 25 Revealed

A Concise Overview of Project 25 Standards, Capabilities, & Applications in simple basic terms

This panel will offer a concise overview and description of the Project 25 Standards, Capabilities, and Applications in simple laymen's terms. The panel is designed for those APCO telecommunicators who are new to Public Safety Communications and those who come from an IT or network background and want to learn more about LMR and P25 radio technology. How P25 facilitates the management of radio users by the telecommunicator will be explained by an experienced P25 System Administrator. The current P25 Systems Model will be explored. The alphabet soup of P25 terminology will be explained along with the various P25 Interfaces: ISSI, CSSI, DFSI, CAI. Interoperability using these P25 Interfaces will be covered from two perspectives: Multi agency sharing for mutual aid as well as multi-vendor product and service offerings. A snapshot of what lies ahead for the P25 Standards including LTE interworking and Communications Security will be shared. A comprehensive list of P25 resources including: News sources, update reports, tools, databases, and testing documents will be presented. In addition, time will be reserved for questions to the panel of P25 experts.

Details: 25 August 2022

The Project 25 Technology Interest Group is pleased to publish the latest P25 New Products and Services presentation for APCO 2022.

The full presentation can be downloaded using the link below.

P25 New Products and Services APCO 2022

See the latest New products including:

New P25 Multi-Band portables from Motorola, Tait,and JVCKenwood Viking.
New P25 Base station from L3Harris.
New JVCKenwood Multi-Protocol System
New Interworking Function from Etherstack
New Communications Service Monitor from Viavi
New In-Building Monitor and Test from PCTEL
New P25 Portable Waveform Analyzer from Locus USA

P25 New Product Trends 2022

Multi-Band P25 Portable Radios (VHF/UHF/700/800 MHz) New products are P25 Phase 1 and Phase 2 capable
P25 LMR Interoperability with LTE Broadband Data
New P25 Consoles connect P25 and LTE technologies
Multi mode P25/LTE Portable radios
Voice recording in radios
Scalable, Configurable P25 Airborne Radios
Deployable, mixed-mode, P25 repeaters for Emergency Ops
P25 Antenna Site Monitoring
“Over the Air” radio maintenance for P25 Systems
“Cloud based” Asset management for P25 Systems
“Cloud based” Dispatch in the field
New P25 Location Services
P25 enhanced Vocoder Software