Audio Segment One: Overview of the National Joint TERT Initiative
How the National Joint Telecommunicator Emergency Response Task Force (TERT) Initiative helps state and local communications centers by providing certified deployable teams. Establishment of national protocols and their relationship to the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
Duration: 5 Minutes 52 Seconds
Audio Segment Two: State-Level Training Efforts
Assistance with command post communications. Incident dispatch products. The need to focus on system restoration in training and exercises.
Duration: 3 Minutes 53 Seconds
Audio Segment Three: TERT Partnerships with Agencies and Associations
National certification requirements under NIMS and the minimum qualifications for telecommunicator credentialing. Resource typing and definitions. The importance of FEMA standardization for making requests and preparing after-action reports. Training tools for state coordinators.
Duration: 8 Minutes 24 Seconds
Audio Segment Four: Mutual Aid Agreements for Public Safety Telecommunicators
Templates to help define the mutual-aid process. Establishing predictability for reimbursement, liability, and other financial issues involved in mutual-aid agreements.
Duration: 3 Minutes 38 Seconds
Audio Segment Five: The National Capital Region’s (NCR’s) 700 Mhz Wireless Network
The nation’s first public-safety regional interoperable wireless broadband network. The potential for solving problems in communications interoperability. Cyren Call, Frontline, and others for a national public safety communications system.
Duration: 8 Minutes 42 Seconds
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John F. Morton
John F. Morton is the Strategic Advisor for DomPrep. He is also the Homeland Security Team Lead for the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR). A member of the DomPrep team since its founding, he has served as managing editor for writer assignments and interviewer for scores of DomPrep audio interviews.
Richard Mirgon
Richard Mirgon, director of communications, emergency management, and animal control for Douglas County, Nevada, has held that position since 1991. Prior to assuming his current post, he served for 13 years as a deputy sheriff and special projects manager for the Board of County Commissioners in Jefferson County, Colorado. He previously served in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence analyst assigned to the National Security Agency. A former co-chair, for four years, of the Nevada WMD/Homeland Security Steering Committee, he is now co-chair of Nevada’s State Emergency Response Commission.
