Join The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) PTIG at APCO 2023 for the Latest P25 News and Technology Update.

• Join us at APCO for 2 Conference panels featuring P25 Leaders and Technology Experts.  
  • P25 for the Future: New Standards, Interoperability, & Security
  • How to Best Configure & Utilize your Call Center for P25 LMR

• Visit the Project 25 Technology Interest Group Booth (1111).
  • Bring your questions and meet with P25 User agency directors and engineers from our P25 Industry members and consultants. 
  • Special “Office Hours”  (Monday 2-3 PM, Tuesday 11-Noon) with Jim Downes the Chair of the P25 Steering Committee.

• See all the new P25 Products and services from 17 PTIG member Booths on the show floor.

How to Best Configure & Utilize your Call Center for P25 LMR
Session Date: Sunday August 6, 2023
Session Time: 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Session Room Name: Music City Center, 103

P25 for the Future: New Standards, Interoperability, & Security
Session Date: Sunday August 6, 2023
Session Time: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Session Room Name: Music City Center, 207 C-D

APCO 2023 Conference: August 6-9 Exhibits: August 7-8
Music City Center, Nashville Tennessee
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How to Best Configure & Utilize your Call Center for P25 LMR 

Sunday August 6th   1:00 PM  Music City Center, 103

Project 25 radio technology offers an extensive set of mission critical capabilities for Public Safety dispatch centers. Across the nation, P25 is widely used, and additional centers are upgrading and converting to use P25 every day. This session will highlight features of the P25 environment in the dispatch center shedding light on some of the capabilities. It will provide insight for dispatchers, management, and technical staff regarding the specific P25 radio equipment that benefits the dispatch center.

The P25 standards define a diverse set of operational configurations that can be tailored to meet user requirements for different scenarios and provide interoperability solutions. This session will offer a concise summary of what a dispatch center environment looks like to a dispatcher with a radio console, radio consolette/desktop, backup radios and P25 Inter System (ISSI). Some dispatch centers will have all this equipment while others might only have one or two. Each dispatch center is unique and has different requirements. Therefore, the session will highlight and describe the features that are available to each one of those environments (i.e. Patching, Emergencies, Simulselect, Connecting Systems, AES encryption). After describing the most used features and functionality, the session will wrap-up with real world scenarios using the equipment.Learning Objectives

What capabilities and features does a telecommunicator have access to at a call center with P25?

What considerations and capabilities are important when defining P25 dispatch configurations for your Call Center?

What options exist for connecting your Call Center to adjacent regional or state-wide P25 Systems? 

P25 for the Future: New Standards Interoperability & Security 

Sunday August 6th   2:30 PM  Music City Center, 207 C-D

Learn what's new for Project 25 in 2023 and beyond including: New P25 Link Layer Security Standards (Cyber Security for P25 Control Channels and Unit IDs), A new "GPS location on every PTT" Standard for P25 subscriber units and a new Multi-vendor "User ID alias" capability to share the user-name for each unit across multiple systems and talk groups.

See how P25 technology is adapting and interworking to meet the changing technology eco-system. Look at the top priorities for the future of P25 from the Steering Committee Chair and User Needs Working Group. Get the latest Standards update including: P25 Standards recently completed and new Standards in development including LMR interworking with LTE and Mission-Critical PTT.

Strong interest in Communications Security and Encryption is growing. Review the new P25 Link Layer Standards, P25 User Authentication Standards, and improved, interoperable, AES Key Management. Explore P25 testing resources including the DHS CAP program and Independent Labs.

Visit the Project 25 Technology Interest Group Booth (1111). 

Bring your questions and meet with P25 User agency directors and engineers from our P25 Industry members and consultants.

Special “Office Hours”  (Monday 2-3 PM, Tuesday 11-Noon) with Jim Downes the Chair of the P25 Steering Committee

See all the new P25 Products and Services from 17 PTIG member Companies on the Show Floor

A New Comprehensive Overview Document  is Now available from DHS CISA and the Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications (FPIC)

 The Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why of Encryption in P25 Public Safety Land Mobile Radio Systems
was published in May 2023

The Full document can be downloaded using the link below:

The Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why of Encryption in P25 Public Safety Land Mobile Radio Systems 

This guide provides readers new to the topic of encryption with a discussion of basic issues
related to establishing and maintaining effective encryption for Project 25 (P25) interoperable
LMR communications systems.  It is highly recommended for agencies planning, implementing, and managing an LMR encryption strategy

It combines and updates the content of three previously published
documents issued by the Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications (FPIC), SAFECOM,
and the National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC) in 2016:

• Considerations for Encryption in Public Safety Radio Systems: This document examines why
encryption is necessary during critical operations. The document provides examples of how
encryption decreases the threat of compromise and reduces the risk to personnel safety
while providing protection of sensitive information.
• Guidelines for Encryption in Land Mobile Radio Systems: This document provides information
that should be considered when evaluating encryption solutions to protect sensitive
operational or life safety radio transmissions.
• Best Practices for Encryption in P25 Public Safety Land Mobile Radio Systems: This
document discusses encryption best practices for P25 LMR systems. The document also
provides an understanding of how basic key management parameters are related in P25 LMR
systems.

The document adds to the previous publications an extensive new section on encryption key
management, based on current proven encryption practices.

The overall objective is to further define and explain encryption and provide reliable guidance for
planning, implementing, and managing an LMR encryption strategy. Special emphasis is on two core
issues: 1) establishing common procedures—including governance, policies, and training—to preserve
user-defined interoperability and 2) managing encryption keys, the random strings of bits used to encode and decode data.

The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) is pleased to welcome SKYMIRA as a new corporate member.  We welcome Robert Landsfield, Ellie Dugger, Scott Henderson, Christina Hommes, and the SKYMIRA  team to the organization.

Skymira has reinvented radio over IP technology to solve common push-to-talk communications problems. Their innovative solutions connect land mobile radios over IP networks to eliminate gaps in network coverage, create disaster resilience, and provide seamless interoperability. Since 1998, Skymira has been creating satellite-enabled solutions for workflow challenges. Working with public safety and government land mobile radio users gives Skymira a security-focused approach to system integration.

Skymira’s new P25 IP Relay creates a portable, highly secure P25 network. It transmits audio, subscriber ID, GPS location, and emergency alerts from all P25 conventional radios over any IP network(s) including satellite, LTE, and FirstNet. Skymira’s communication solutions provide real-time communications regardless of what’s going on. 

Website:

http://www.skymira.com

Contact information:

Robert Landsfield,  CEO

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Scott Henderson, Director of Sales

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The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) is pleased to welcome BYNE as a new corporate member.  We welcome Andre Nazario de Souza, Vitor Espindola and the BYNE team to the organization.

BYNE is a company created with the objective of simplifying critical operational environments. Their mission is to simplify critical operating center environments, focusing on the user, simplifying and streamlining the operation of strategic segments of the economy, with a high impact on society. They have full integration with P25 technology over DFSI and/or CSSI protocols and provide interoperability of P25 with other LMR protocols and also other communications platforms like telephony systems, satellite PTT and others.

They offer clients integration, control and security for operations in the Public Safety, Financial, Oil & Gas, Energy, and Transportation areas.

Website:

https://www.byne.com.br

Contact information:

André Nazário de Souza, CEO

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Vitor Espíndola,  CTO

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