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DHS Completes User Pilot Testing for Multi-Band Radios for First Responders

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

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The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) research branch this month completed its final series of operational pilot tests of radios that can operate on multiple bands to thus allow first responders to communicate across agencies and jurisdictions with a single radio. The Multi-Band Radio (MBR) pilot began in 2009 and involved a number of local, state and federal partners involved in emergency response, shows that the technology works. For the most part currently, handheld emergency response radios operate on a…

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