Background 
Key Personnel
Past Performance
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The need for effective public safety communication networks has never been greater. The international community faces an increased threat from terrorist activity, as well as the ever increasing risk of major accidents, power outages and natural disasters, such as hurricanes and earthquakes. The tragic events of recent times have highlighted how vulnerable we are to such incidents.
National security and defense are top priorities. However, most governments and agencies are relying on communication networks and infrastructures that are visibly unable to deal with this increased level of threat, with homeland security and defense forces in the United States, Canada and Europe are presently conducting their missions primarily through pre-September 11th communication and information technology infrastructures. The networks, equipment and related facilities that comprise this infrastructure vary with respect to reliability, redundancy, interoperability, capability, deployability, scalability, security and connectivity. This variability limits the users' ability to rapidly, efficiently and effectively protect the citizens of their respective countries, to prevent and combat terrorism and other criminality, and to provide relief and recovery to their citizens following man-made and natural emergencies.
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Evaluations of existing public safety infrastructures on both sides of the Atlantic following terrorist acts, natural disasters and through emergency preparedness drills have highlighted substantial problems.
Despite the renewed focus on homeland defense and security, the United States and European nations have been slow to correct deficiencies in their existing communications and information technology infrastructures as evidenced by recent emergency preparedness drills on both sides of the Atlantic.
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