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2016 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting - Day 2

August 31, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Dereck R. Orr, Jeremy E. Benson, Richard A. Rouil, Andrew Thiessen, Paul Roberts, John T. Beltz, Joshua M. Franklin, Harlin McEwen, Christopher J. Walton, Paul A. Grassi, Ellen L. Ryan, Donald L. Harriss, Mika Skarp, Wim Brouwer
The Public Safety Communications Research program held its latest PSBB Stakeholder Meeting on June 7-9 2016 in San Diego, CA. This three-day meeting brought together representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry and academia to highlight

2016 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting - Day 3

August 31, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Jeremy E. Benson, Richard A. Rouil, Andrew P. Thiessen, Paul Roberts, Steven Voran, John T. Beltz, Joshua M. Franklin, Harlin McEwen, Christopher J. Walton, Paul A. Grassi, Donald L. Harriss, Mika Skarp, Wim Brouwer
The Public Safety Communications Research program held its latest PSBB Stakeholder Meeting on June 7-9, 2016, in San Diego, CA. This three-day meeting brought together representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry, and academia to

2016 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting - Day1

August 31, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Dereck R. Orr, Jeremy E. Benson, Richard A. Rouil, Andrew P. Thiessen, Paul Roberts, Steven Voran, John T. Beltz, Joshua M. Franklin, Harlin McEwen, Christopher J. Walton, Paul A. Grassi, Donald L. Harriss, Mika Skarp, Wim Brouwer
The Public Safety Communications Research program held its latest PSBB Stakeholder Meeting on June 7-9 2016 in San Diego, CA. This three-day meeting brought together representatives from public safety, federal agencies, industry and academia to highlight

Usability and Security Considerations for Public Safety Mobile Authentication

July 27, 2016
Author(s)
Yee-Yin Choong, Joshua M. Franklin, Kristen Greene
There is a need for cybersecurity capabilities and features to protect the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN). However, cybersecurity requirements should not compromise the ability of first responders to complete their missions. In addition

Thermal Exposure Sensor for Fire Fighters - full-Scale Performance Experiments

July 26, 2016
Author(s)
Nelson P. Bryner, Atul Deshmukh, John Casali, Jeff Lancaster, Roy A. McLane
During structural fire fighting suppression operations, fire fighters wear protective gear to insulate them from the high temperature environment including hot combustion gases, burning surfaces, and thermal radiation. Current turnout gear insulates the

Thermal Exposure Sensor for Fire Fighters - Laboratory-Scale Performance Experiments

July 26, 2016
Author(s)
Nelson P. Bryner, Atul Deshmukh, John Casali, Jeff Lancaster, Roy A. McLane
During structural fire fighting operations, fire fighters wear protective gear to insulate them from high temperature environments, including hot combustion gases, burning surfaces, and thermal radiation. Current turnout gear insulates the fire fighter to

Public Safety Analytics R&D Roadmap

April 19, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Ryan Felts, Marc Leh
The public safety community is in a period of great transition. Over the next 20 years, technology advancements will increase accessibility of data/video applications to public safety, and allow for the eventual migration of voice communications from

Spent Fuel Transportation Package Response to the MacArthur Maze Fire Scenario

October 2, 2015
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Harold Adkins
The NRC has established requirements that are the design bases for packaging and transportation of spent nuclear fuel assemblies under normal conditions of transport (NCT) and for hypothetical accident conditions (HAC). Real-world accidents of greater