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Alison Kahn (Fed)

Alison Kahn is an Electronics Engineer with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division in Boulder, Colorado. Alison is currently the Project Lead for First Responder Personal Area Network research, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology directorate. This project is working to identify and address barriers in the assimilation and utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) data during first responder field operations. Alison has 18 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Before joining PSCR in 2016, she worked on end-to-end device interoperability programs for cellular network equipment manufacturers. She also worked with commercial wireless carriers to develop and implement customized test plans used to ensure that device vendors could meet both customer required and industry standard interoperability with cellular network equipment.

Publications

2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Presentations by NIST Authors

Author(s)
Richard A. Rouil, Tom Henderson, Marco Mezzavilla, Michele Polese, Jaden Pieper, Chunmei Liu, Silas Thompson, David W. Griffith, Christopher Walton, Christopher D. Dennis, Fabio C. da Silva, John S. Garofolo, James M. Horan, Samuel Hood, Julie Stroup, Christine Task, Terese Manley, Sam Ray, Alison Kahn, Maxwell Maurice, Hien V. Nguyen, Frederick R. Byers, Kristen K. Greene, Mary Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong, Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Pamela J. Konkol, Jeffrey Cichonski, Bill Fisher, Gema Howell, Mike Dolan, Adam Lewis, Michael Ogata, John Beltz, Michael Bartock, Sarah Hughes, Santosh Rajvaidya, Craig Connelly, Scott Ledgerwood, Megan Waldock, Dereck R. Orr, Donald Bradshaw, Jeb Benson
2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Presentations by NIST Authors
Created October 16, 2019, Updated February 1, 2023