Jason Arms brings 25+ years of experience spanning information technology, law enforcement, radio communications, fire service, and emergency management. He has deployments across Texas, having served in emergency management coordination roles for city and county jurisdictions, as a police sergeant, and as deputy manager for large-scale interoperable radio communications systems supporting thousands of public-safety users across a multi-agency region. He has also led municipal IT, emergency management, and communications operations in Texas.
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Global Communication with Next-Generation Satellite Systems For Public Safety Communications, I believe this represents a significant shift in technology. And I don’t believe the reasons the business pages are reporting about this represent why it is so important. Historically, since…
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