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COPS Interoperable Communications Technology Grant Program B Quarterly Programmatic Updates Once per quarter, grantees will be required to submit a hdef programmatic update 1o their COPS Interoperable Communications Technology point of contact This narrative update should detail what grant activities occurred during the past three months and descdbe planned activities for the upcoming quarter There is no set format for this update, and it can be submitted by electronic mail to the COPS point of contact Evaluation of Projects As a condition of the grant award, grantees will be required to conduct an evaluation fo document the successes and impediments experienced by the grant recipients in implementing the demonstration projects Grantees will be required to submit the evaluation to the COPS Office The evaluations will help to export the lessons teamed to other states and communities Other Information --_. Standards When procuring equipment for communication system development and expansion, a standards-based approach should be used to begin migration to multi jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary interoperability Specifically, all new voice systems should be compatible with the ANSIRIAIEIAA-102 Phase 1 (Project 25 or P25) suite of standards Thls recommendation is intended for governmenRowned or leased land mobile public safety radio equipment and its purpose is io make sure that such equipment or systems are capable of Interopereting with other public safety land mobile equipment or systems. It is not intended to apply to commercial services that offer other types of interopemblllty solutions and does not exclude any application 'rf it demonstrates that the system or equipment being proposed will lead to enhanced interoperability Wilh Input from the user community, these standards have been developed to allow for backward compatibility with existing digital and analog systems and to provide for interoperability in future systems The FCC has chosen the P25 suite of standards for voice and low-moderate speed data interoperability in the new nationwide 700 MHz frequency band and the Integrated Wireless Network (IWN) of the U S Justice and Treasury Departments has chosen the Project 25 suite of standards for their new radio equipment. P25 has also been endorsed by the tl S Department of Defense for new LMR (Land Mobile Radio) radio systems However, the first priority of federal funding for improving public safety communications is to provide basic, operable communications within a department with safety as the overddirig consideration Funding requests by agencies to replace or add radio equipment to an existing non-P25 system will be cons(dered if (here Is an explanation as to how their radio selection will allow for improving interoperability or eventual migration to Interoperable systems This guidance does not preclude funding of non-Project 25 equipment when there are compelling reasons for using other solutions Absent these compelling reasons, the COPS Office intends that Project 25 equipment will be preferred for digital systems to which the standard applies 41