http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/comment-page-1/#comment-136933 William R. Cumming Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=6769#comment-136933 Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations. Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations.

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/comment-page-1/#comment-136933 William R. Cumming Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=6769#comment-136933 Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations. Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations.

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/comment-page-1/#comment-136933 William R. Cumming Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=6769#comment-136933 Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations. Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations.

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/comment-page-1/#comment-136933 William R. Cumming Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:37:26 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=6769#comment-136933 Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations. Just to absolutely clear in my comments on this post. Guidance and technical assistance and funding are NOT substitutes for standard setting and regulations.

]]> http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/17/pjb-pushes-reccwgs-to-advance-necp/comment-page-1/#comment-136932 William R. Cumming Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:36:05 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=6769#comment-136932 Just noting for the record that FEMA throughout its history and now DHS and its related components have tried to and have spent mucho dinaro to upgrade STATE and local communications and their reliabiltiy and interoperability and redundancy. Because neither FEMA nor DHS has any standard setting or regulatory authority in the communications areana even with the NCS now part of DHS [housed I believe in the NP&PD (National Protection & Programs Directorate) under Rand Beer that system [see EO 12472 and 47 CRF Parts 201-212) have not accomplished that mission. Firemen died at the WTC on 9/11 because they failed to receive the evacuate message applicable to all first responders although police largely did evacuate. In many ways federal, state, and local policy is to make the FIRE SERVICE the canaries of the system as far as hazards and their identification and appropriate response. Guess the free market that so many seem to want is built in part on lack of communiciations capability. Just noting for the record that FEMA throughout its history and now DHS and its related components have tried to and have spent mucho dinaro to upgrade STATE and local communications and their reliabiltiy and interoperability and redundancy. Because neither FEMA nor DHS has any standard setting or regulatory authority in the communications areana even with the NCS now part of DHS [housed I believe in the NP&PD (National Protection & Programs Directorate) under Rand Beer that system [see EO 12472 and 47 CRF Parts 201-212) have not accomplished that mission. Firemen died at the WTC on 9/11 because they failed to receive the evacuate message applicable to all first responders although police largely did evacuate. In many ways federal, state, and local policy is to make the FIRE SERVICE the canaries of the system as far as hazards and their identification and appropriate response. Guess the free market that so many seem to want is built in part on lack of communiciations capability.

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