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Publication Date: September 2004
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): James Jay Carafano
Research Area: Media, telecommunications, and information
Keywords: Homeland defense; disasters; national emergency
Type: Report
Abstract:
Creating the kind of emergency communication systems needed to respond to national disasters will include (1) adhering to policies that promote effective public-private sharing of the emergency management electromagnetic spectrum, (2) creating a national capability to deploy a wide-area emergency management communications network for catastrophic disasters, and (3) establishing coherent national leadership for emergency response communications.