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We don't see evidence of this in the RFPs for first responder systems. Given that the lifecycle and market cycle is approximately 12 years for these systems, unless there is a very immediate course correction, we won't see these for over a decade.
The problem of integrating the first responder public safety systems peer to peer and into the upper level Federal agencies is tougher than anyone looking at it from a web perspective knows. While one prefers this to bottom-up, the RFP lifecycle, the late adopter status of public safety agencies, the still unresolved security issues, the still unworked policy issues all ensure that any bottom-up cycle will be very slow.
This is one area where the current administration completely blew it by failing to understand the importance of all-source information collection and classification. Money spent here to ensure an overall high level architecture for these sources is in place sooner rather than later will pay high dividends.
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