An Assessment of the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2019 (2019) / Chapter Skim
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3 Public Safety Communications Research
3 Public Safety Communications Research
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In 2012, PSCR was called to play a significant part in the future of broadband public safety communication; the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 20125 (the "Act") appropriated $300 million from spectrum auction proceeds to NIST to be used as specified in Section 6303 of the Act as shown in Box 3.1.
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accelerate the development of mission critical voice, including device-to-device "talkaround" capability over broadband networks, public safety prioritization, authentication capabilities, and standard application programming interfaces for the nationwide public safety broadband network, if necessary and practical; (5) accelerate the development of communications technology and equipment that can facilitate the eventual migration of public safety narrowband communications to the nationwide public safety broadband network; and (6)
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PSCR prize challenges began in 2018. An example is the 2018 Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight and Payload Challenge, which addresses the trade-off of flight time versus payload that proves critical in the public safety domain.
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standards body;9 maintenance of the list10 of certified devices that meet appropriate protocols and standards for access to, use of, or compatibility with the nationwide public safety broadband network that FirstNet and their network partner, AT&T, build and maintain; research in critical open source tools that lower the barrier to entry for researchers and companies to perform research in the area of MCV; and development and improvement of tools, datasets, and models for public safety, commercial broadband operators, and outside researchers to simulate networks from the radio layer down through payload. (The authentication activities are part of the Security portfolio discussed below.)
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It is critical that the public safety community be represented by technically informed personnel in order to address highly technical issues within the standards bodies. Recommendation: CTL's participation in standards bodies concerning Mission Critical Voice should be driven toward specific goals that should be explicitly agreed upon by the user as well as the research and development communities.
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Key Recommendation: The PSCR Division should develop a research and development roadmap for mission-critical voice, considering how the various activities it includes therein can be used as integral elements. CTL should consult on the roadmap's development with other organizations, both government and commercial, to determine overlap of technology development.
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The research portfolio includes research projects in emergency medical services analytics, firefighting analytics, crosscutting research in video analytics, differential privacy prize challenge, social media incident streams challenge (first-generation and a coming secondgeneration challenge) , analytics container environment framework to support scalable streaming analytics, collaboration with Baltimore CitiWatch,15 and a planned challenge in automated streams analytics for public safety.
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The prize challenges in public safety have beneficial short-term impact of making the community aware of what's possible and to highlight those groups that are doing great work in relevant areas. The work of the PSCR Division might benefit from giving consideration to how this effort will produce longlasting infrastructure, talent, and tools for public safety beyond the end date of the competition.
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Key Recommendation: The PSCR Division should consider integration of the UI/UX (user interface/user experience) research and prize challenges with the other PSCR portfolios as appropriate provided efficiencies can be gained by such integration.
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Challenges and Opportunities Besides performing research in mobile access authentication, the PSCR Division has opportunities for protecting user applications and user data in the PSCR mobile environment. User 19 NIST, 2018, Security Analysis of First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices, Draft NISTIR 8196, U.S.
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This prize challenge was thus designed to help public safety operations by keeping a UAS and its payload airborne for the longest time possible with vertical and hovering accuracy. Additionally, at a cost of less than $20,000 per UAS, this challenge shows first responders that there may someday be an affordable drone in their toolkit to carry wireless networks for emergency operations.21 In 2017, PSCR funded six grants to evaluate or enhance the resilience of public safety mission critical systems in the face of connectivity challenges.
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In addition, CTL should develop a plan for leveraging the expertise developed through the prize challenges. DISSEMINATION OF OUTPUTS Dissemination is a key component of the PSCR goal to create a public safety ecosystem and this is an area where PSCR has established a strong and successful effort.
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PSCR has made a point of requiring deliverables such as data sets, application programming interfaces and open-source tools -- all of which encourage the growth of the public safety ecosystem and can be utilized by others and built upon. These results are freely available via the PSCR website and many have been integrated into prize challenges to facilitate new efforts.
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