update: 2011 California MCC Rally/Disaster Management Initiative

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Update: RSVPs requested for attendees, update on classes & exercises,

sponsorshiop opportunities.

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Randall Larson/Plans Section Chief/2011 CA MCC Rally

Editor, 9-1-1 Magazine

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Update: Third Annual California Public Safety Command Van Rally & Disaster

Management Initiative

May 22-23 2011 Moffett Field, CA

NOTE: Advance RSVPs are highly encouraged due to the secure facility the

event will be held at, and to plan for the event’s logistics needs. If you

are planning on attending please drop an email to

editor911magz@... let us know.

This year’s MCC Rally has combined with the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

Disaster Management Initiative to provide a number of technical and

operational exercises and demonstrations making this year’s Rally much more

hands-on and interactive than previous show-and-tell Rallies.

Further details on class schedule will be distributed prior to the event.

Classes and exercises will be held throughout both days, with Sunday

focusing on volunteer personnel and Monday on on-duty public safety

personnel – but both days will have a wealth of training and observational

opportunities as we test and demonstrate various methods of interoperability

and see mobile command/communications vehicles in action.

Event sponsors thus far include California Emergency Management Agency

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

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

Alliance (WCA), and more to be confirmed. Invited participants include the

Hastily Formed Networks Center at the Naval Post-graduate School, Monterey,

CA. Representatives from a variety of vendors and mobile command vehicle

makers are scheduled to be on site.

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 either or both days and to RSVP

your planned attendance. Command units will need to be accompanied by an

agency representative able to host tours of the unit.

Event Recap:

The Third Annual California Public Safety Command Van Rally &

Disaster Management Initiative is jointly sponsored by the California

Emergency Management Agency, the California Fire Chiefs Association

Communications Section, and the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Disaster

Management Initiative. 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

hands-on 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.

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

in your area who may wish to participate.

www.calchiefs.org (select “communications”)

http://dmi.sv.cmu.edu

http://CalEMA.ca.gov