Grant Details

This grant program provides funding to deliver training programs to teach effective communications with first responders in an emergency, to implement interoperable technology solutions to provide or upgrade systems for effective communication with first responders in an emergency, to maintain, improve or provide interoperable communications hardware or software, and for any necessary radio system capacity expansions where school loading has been determined to have a significant impact on public safety system loading.

Grant recipients may use the money received through the grant program for the following purposes:

• Deliver training programs to teach district-based security personnel and appropriate school personnel basic procedures for effective communications with first responders;
• Implement an interoperable technology solution to provide or to upgrade following:
  • A system or technology that can be activated and deactivated by the public safety 911 answering point, the network administrator, and the school, using both the radio system and other communications networks;
  • Radio and other technology bridge ability that is not radio vendor specific for connecting independent school networks across the school district and public safety networks in the regions; and
  • An interoperability solution that operates over radio networks and other communications networks;
• To maintain or improve a school's existing interoperable communication hardware or software or to provided interoperable communication hardware and/or software to a school that does not yet have it; and
• For any necessary radio system capacity expansions where school loading has been determined to have significant impact on public safety system loading.