NASA Awards Next Generation Land Mobile Radio Contract

The two-way radios are used by members of the Protective Services Division, Facilities Management Division and other first responders to provide communication in support of their day-to-day operations.

The core requirements of the contract consist of the installation and maintenance of the LMR P25 system at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr...xt-generation-land-mobile-radio-contract.html

Hmmm, no mention of it being for a trunked or WAN system - I wonder what the intentions are? Wallops is also going to be a site for military UAS testing and development. Maybe it could be part of the DoD NCR system?

Wallops is trunked now so my suspicion would be trunked

finally Wallops giving up a EDACS system which works very well using good old FM
why is it necessary to use P25 - FM works well - unless it will use encryption?

EDACS is at end-of-life and P25 is the public safety standard now, and some iteration of P25 is likely to exist for some time into the future.

UHF P25 Trunked. It is not to be part of the NCR system as that is a Harris system.

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Wow - I just realized that I posted this in the Maryland area.... doh.

Anyway:
http://forums.radioreference.com/vi...talling-new-motorola-p25-phase-ii-system.html