Some updates I found about the status of Montgomery County's $100M+radio system upgrade:
Staging was completed over a year ago.
The Purvis Fire Station Alerting subproject is complete, and MOSCAD has been decommissioned.
The Motorola CAD system subproject is complete.
The Records Management System subproject has been restarted (delayed to focus resources on CAD and body camera program.)
The Radio System Infrastructure (sub) Project continues:
Phase 1 of the project installed a new ASTRO core and dispatch consoles at the PSCC in Gaithersburg and AECC in Rockville.
The prime site is at Shady Grove, a site shared with FIRST and MIEMSS.
This will be a 22 site system, expanding from a ~11 site legacy system (from what I can tell.)
The original sites:
- Dickerson
- Germantown
- Hampshire Green
- MCCS
- NRC
- Penn Shop
- Quince Orchard (PEPCO - needs replacement)
- Shady Grove
- White Oak
- Kenwood (to be replaced by Bethesda)
- Takoma Park (to be replaced by Carroll Highlands)
New Sites:
- Damascus
- Bethesda (replaces Kenwood)
- Carroll Highlands (replaces Takoma Park)
- Elmer School
- EOB
- Grosvenor
- Castle Blvd
- Burtonsville
- Bretton Woods
- Brookeville
- Fire Station 16
- Fire Station 30
- ICC (proposed FIRST site - we'll see)
Nine tower sites are leased. Six tower sites will be built ("greenfield.")
Staging was completed over a year ago.
The Purvis Fire Station Alerting subproject is complete, and MOSCAD has been decommissioned.
The Motorola CAD system subproject is complete.
The Records Management System subproject has been restarted (delayed to focus resources on CAD and body camera program.)
The Radio System Infrastructure (sub) Project continues:
Phase 1 of the project installed a new ASTRO core and dispatch consoles at the PSCC in Gaithersburg and AECC in Rockville.
The prime site is at Shady Grove, a site shared with FIRST and MIEMSS.
This will be a 22 site system, expanding from a ~11 site legacy system (from what I can tell.)
The original sites:
- Dickerson
- Germantown
- Hampshire Green
- MCCS
- NRC
- Penn Shop
- Quince Orchard (PEPCO - needs replacement)
- Shady Grove
- White Oak
- Kenwood (to be replaced by Bethesda)
- Takoma Park (to be replaced by Carroll Highlands)
New Sites:
- Damascus
- Bethesda (replaces Kenwood)
- Carroll Highlands (replaces Takoma Park)
- Elmer School
- EOB
- Grosvenor
- Castle Blvd
- Burtonsville
- Bretton Woods
- Brookeville
- Fire Station 16
- Fire Station 30
- ICC (proposed FIRST site - we'll see)
Nine tower sites are leased. Six tower sites will be built ("greenfield.")
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