2011 California Mobile Command Center Rally/Disaster Management Institute

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http://www.calchiefs.org/items/CFCA%202011%20MCC%20RallyFlyer.pdf

ANNOUNCING the THIRD ANNUAL California Public Safety Command Van Rally &

Disaster Management Initiative

May 22-23 2011 Moffett Field, CA

The California Emergency Management Agency, the California Fire Chiefs

Association Communications Section, and the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

Disaster Management Initiative announce this year’s mobile

communications/command vehicle rally on Sun and Monday May 22 and 23rd. This

year’s event will combine the Rally with CMU Disaster Management Initiative

for a greater opportunity for associated workshops and exercises. The event

will be held at the CMU Silicon Valley campus located within the NASA

Research Park at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California.

A wide variety of public safety and private/corporate communications

vehicles will be on display. Workshops and exercises will cover a wide

variety of both technical and operational topics relevant to emergency and

disaster management communications and interoperability.

3rd Annual Mobile Command Center Rally (MCC Rally): This event will gather

together a wide variety of mobile command and communications units from

around California in order to demonstrate the variety of capabilities and

mutual aid operability of local and regional mobile comm units in CA.

2nd Annual Disaster Management Initiative (DMI): This event will bring

together first responders along with DMI’s community of researchers,

volunteers, radio amateurs, and industry partners to collaborate in

conducting research experiments and demonstrations around emergency

communications technology.

Training & Education: Both DMI and the MCC Rally are offering a number of

learning opportunities, including workshops, demos, experiments, and

exercises, during the event. Topics include interoperability tests based on

first responders’ experiences from last year’s gas explosion in San Bruno,

plus classes on interoperability (including a data/protocol transfer

“plugfest”), field communications, location-based data collection, and much

more.

Sponsors thus far include California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA)

and California Fire Chiefs Association (CFCA), IntraPoint, the National

Disaster Resiliency Center (NDRC), and the Wireless Communications Alliance

(WCA).

For sponsorship opportunities, attendance and participation please email

disaster@.... Attendance will be limited, so please contact us soon.

Please contact Randall Larson at editor911magz@... to reserve a spot

for your command/ communications vehicle for both or either days. Command

units will need to be accompanied by an agency representative able to host

tours of the unit.

Please pass this along to any other associates with active command/comm

vans in your area who may wish to participate.

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Randall Larson

Editor, 9-1-1 Magazine

http://www.9-1-1magazine.com/

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