The Project 25 Technology Interest Group is pleased to publish our latest P25 Conventional Systems List

The full list can be downloaded using the link below

P25 Conventional Systems List October 2023

A New 2023 Edition of the P25 Conventional Systems list is now available.

Thanks to Ken Brown for his continued updates on this database

The P25 Conventional Systems List was last published in 2020 with 1,816 Systems
The new October 2023 list shows a significant 31% increase
571 New P25 Conventional systems identified
Total of 2,387 P25 Conventional Systems.

When this total is added to PTIG’s separate list of 1,218 P25 Trunking Systems…
Grand total for P25 Conventional and Trunked stands at 3,605 known P25 Systems.

The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) is pleased to welcome our newest commercial member Prism-IPX

We welcome Kirk Alland, Vic Jensen, Jim Nelson, John Bishop and the Prism team to the organization.

Website: https://www.prism-ipx.com 

Contact information:

Kirk Alland, Senior VP Sales & Marketing,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prism-IPX designs versatile and robust Critical Message Management systems using paging and other wireless technologies for high performance and dependable communications. They have launched two new P25 Derivative products that are essential for Counties to fully migrate their critical communications from the aging Analog Networks to the new P25 Phase 1 and Phase 2 systems.

These affordable solutions include P25 Warning Siren Control Boards, as well as a P25 Fire Station Alerting unit. These products will allow Counties to finally realize the cost savings of taking down their analog systems and migrating to a single P25 Network for all their Public Safety Communications needs.

 P25 Fire Station Alerting

• Allows you to alert your fire stations utilizing your P25 Network.
• It can also be upgraded to use Analog, LTE and IP networks.
• The FSA offers 8 Relays to allow you to open doors, turn on lights among other possibilities at the Fire Stations. 
• Listen to your alerts & P25 Fire Grounds throughout the station    

P25 Warning Siren Controller 

• Allows you to alert your warning sirens utilizing your P25 Network.
• It can also be upgraded to use Analog, LTE and IP networks.
• Allows for easy migration and redundancy.

Transition to Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), October 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communication (FPIC have just published a new Whitepaper “Transition to Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)”

The Full Whitepaper can be downloaded using the links below:

Transition to Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), October 2023

Or

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-10/23_0918_fpic_AES-Transition-WhitePaper_Final_508C_23_1023.pdf

Some excerpts from the whitepaper are below:

Background
“Most federal agencies have implemented, and are actively using AES for all LMR transactions, but budgetary constraints for many non-federal departments and agencies have continually inhibited the timely and necessary transition to AES. This is one of many factors affecting state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) agencies prolonging the continued generation, distribution, and management of DES encryption, despite the inherent vulnerabilities and known inability to adequately protect both wired and wireless voice and data transmissions.”

Currently, to maintain encrypted interoperability during multijurisdictional
incidents, federal agencies using AES encryption, and SLTT agencies using
DES encryption must alter their communications protocols to use DES
encryption or issue cache/donor radios with proper AES encryption to
response partners to achieve secure interoperable communications. This
consumes critical time, effort, and resources, diverting responders from
their primary mission of life-safety and security, and introduces increased
vulnerabilities of the compromised DES algorithm.

The transition to AES encryption is the only solution that would provide a
lowest common denominator of available interoperable encryption for
LMR voice and data communications for all public safety entities at all
levels of government.

The Project 25 Technology Interest Group (PTIG) is pleased to announce our latest "P25 System of the Month" New Mexico Digital Trunked Radio System (NM-DTRS)

Author: Michael Rohrbacher – Director of Public Safety Communications
New Mexico Department of Information Technology

The full report can be downloaded using the link below:

New Mexico Digital Trunked Radio System (DTRS)

The State of New Mexico Department of Information Technology currently operates and maintains public safety radio communications for over 50 state, local, tribal, and federal agencies. The NM-DTRS (Digital Trunked Radio System), is a unified platform for public safety communications.

The Department of Information Technology opted to deploy an entirely new state-wide radio system based on the Project 25 standard. The decision to utilize Project 25 was made for many reasons:
• Project 25 is a proven technology and widely supported.
• Project 25 provides a vendor-agnostic platform for user radios, which allows agencies to have a choice of manufacturers and promotes competition in the marketplace.
• Project 25 compatible hardware is eligible for grant funding in New Mexico.
• Project 25 continues to evolve and support new features.
• Project 25 provides the opportunity for a high level of interoperability between partner agencies.

Notable multi-agency events that rely on DTRS for communications:
• Albuquerque International Ballon Fiesta
• New Mexico State Fair
• Presidential visits
• Major law enforcement incidents in the Albuquerque area coordinated with state, local and federal agencies
• Zozobra Festival in Santa Fe