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July 12,2010

Ms. Marlene H. Dortch, SecretaryFederal Communications Commission445 12th Street, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20554Re: I'S Docket No. 06-229

Dear Ms. Dortch:Pursuant to Section 1.1206(b)(2) ofthe Commission's Rules, this is to notify you that on June 16,2010, ateam from BAY AREA UASI met with the Commission's Public and Homeland Bureau todiscuss its planned 700 MHz broadband system. The included Laura AreaUndersheriffRichard T. Alameda County, William J. McCammon, East Bay RegionalCommunications Authority, Morris Tahak . Assistant Chiefand Chiefnf Staff, San Franclsco PoliceDepartment, Paul Steinberg, Motorola, Travis Boettcher, Motorola and Zia Siddiqui, Motorola.Pal1icipants tor the FCC included Jennifer Jon Brian Ziad Sleem, Behzad Gh,affari.Jeffery Goldthorp, Walter Johnston, Kurian Jacob and Tom Peters.The information included details Gfthe BAY AREA UASi communications system.Certain information is and a redacted version of the is enclosed. Theconfidential information has been provided under separate cover with a request for confidentiality.

Pursuant to the Commission's Rules, one of this notice is being filed ele'ctr'onic2111ywith theCommission. any additional lnforrnation contact the at 415,7058516.

BAY AREA UASI

Laura Phillips, Executive Director

Cc: Jennifer MannerJon PehaBrian HurleyZiad SleemBehzad Ghaffari

Jeffery GoldthorpWalter JohnstonKurian JacobTom Peters

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ConfidentialityJune 18, 2010This information has been provided voluntarily at the request ofthe Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and werequest that this information remain confidential under theprovisions of 0.459 of the Commission rules. In the event it isdetermined that confidentiality cannot be provided, we requestthe opportunity to withdraw this information.

Laura Phill ips, Executive Director, Bay Area UASI


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Bay Area Regional InteroperabilityInitiative: A National Model forRegional Collaboration

Presented by Phillips, Executive DirectorBay Area UASI


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Marriage of three formerindependent UASl's-SanFrancisco, Oakland and SanJose in 2006.Footprint for UASI program: 10Bay Area Counties (contrast toMSA area)Governance Agreement renewedin 2007: authority to manageand collaborate on multiple BayArea and Homeland Securityinitiatives includingInteroperable Communications,Information Sharing, CBRNEresponse capability, and others.

History: A ModeStructure


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MQU allows for m a n g g ~ m e n t of "other" federal funding

Now managing initiatives and programs from UASI,IECGP, PSIC, COPS ICE, COPS TECH

MOU allows Director of UASI to form other advisorygroups for collaboration on initiatives: RCPGP AdvisoryGroup, BayRICS Tech Group, BayRICS Policy Group

Three tiered structure: Working Groups for regionalinitiatives, Advisory Group, Approval Authority

Model Governan


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Governance MStructure Approval Authority: sets policy, final decisions onfunding, Mernbers: core city, core countyrepresentation, state

Advisory Group: Represents all operational/countiesareas within urban area footprint. Policysetting/advisory to Approval Authority

Working Groups and Sub ..Regional Planning Hubs


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Governance Model: leverages otherfederal grants, collaboration reducescosts, investments are outcomedriven, allows effective crosspollination across multiple disciplines,supported by strategic plans,encourages partnerships.


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Bay Area co-chairs the Capitol-Bay Planning Area(CALSIEC)-22 county footprint (10 are Bay Area UASI) Monterey County included in Interop planning within BayArea Interop group Bay Area serves as lead/coordinator and fiscal agent forPSIC, IECGP (22 counties of Cap-Bay) JUNE 4th -begin planning group for all Northern Cal

Interoperability Issues (all counties to Nevada and Oregonborder) Bay Area leads quarterly "all Calif UASI" group- developsshared investment strategies-Interoperability, Info Sharing,EMMA

Collaboration B


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LEADERSHIP

View of Region

cessful?

Collaboration outside of "footprint" for greater good

Gap analysis/strategic plans guide investments

Tiered governance structure-allowing collaboration andcoordination of other funding sources

What makes us s


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BayWEB/BayLoop: Alameda County Sheriff

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BAYRICS: Executive leadership from each subsystem

Examples: Urban Shield- Alameda County SheriffNCRIC-North Calif RegionalInformation Center San Mateo County Sheriff

Executive leadership of initiatives

What makes us


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Capital B a P l a n n i n 9 A r e a ~ C A L SIEC.Collaborationbetween Bay Areaand Capital Area and 22 county planni l1garea for Interoperability.B a y W E B e x p g : n ~ i ( m t o all of northenlCalifornia and potential sharing ofcore equipmentin discussion (subJect to additional waivers to FCC,PSST T e r r r r i L . ~ a s e , g : n d any other i n t ~ r 9 p c 9 n d i t i o n s . Working withMichael Crews- State of Calif Interoperability CoordinatorInteroperable Communications planning incorporates -1-80 CorridorConceptR C P G P p l . a n n i n g g : c t i v i t i e s ~ We didn't understand "catastrophic" untilKatrina. Planrlingiarea expanded. Interoperability across "nation"important to aid in disaster.InformCltiorrSharinglnitiative fo r counti.eswithin the UASI and within theborders of our Fusion Center (15 counties- 5 counties outside of UASI).Current: ARIES, COPLINK future: ALPR, biometrics, connectivitybetween UASI areasBay Area and California HASI meetings/ProjectsUS DOT- PIg:n forl\lextGen911 Migration"

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.. "First do no harm," - BayRICS and UASI Guiding Principles.. Resiliency second requirement

.. Partnership and compliance with ERIC (I always wanted to moveto Boulder.)

.. Partnership's with State Interop Coordinator, within 22 countyCap-Bay CALSIEC Planning Area and ultimately with otherCALSIEC Planning Areas.. No funding wUl.be granted within UASI without compliance to

requirementsforwalver, PSST-Term Lease, ERIC and any otherinterop requirementsfrom State/Feds... BayRICSPolicyGroup(and those requirements) drives any workcompleted by contractors, private public partnerships.

Ensuring In.. " "


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II Transition to Next Generation 911 in the Bay Area:II Pilot with 911 Managers, funded through UASI and coordinatedCALNENAINENA and US DOT

II Secure Networks to facilitate the protection of core and criticalinfrastructure through integration with Northern CaliforniaFusion Center, State FC and the other three FC's in CA

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1. Internet access; Public safety subscribers shall have access to the global Internet

2. VPN access to any authorized site and to home networks; The regional PS operator shall be required to allow establishment and useof VPN connections by roaming users on their networks to other networks

3. Status I Information "Homepage;" The regional PS network operators shall provide a universal method toobtain a this region's "home page" for visitors to the system.

4. Access to responders under the Incident Command System; PS users (at home and visitors) managed under the ICS structure of arequesting agency served by a public safety broadband network shall beprovided access to that network to carry out incident objectives andcommunicate with their home networks

5. Field-based server applications The regional PS network systems shall support the use of field-deployedserver applications. This requirement includes the need for client devices toconsistently and continuously reach these server-based systems from anyother location on the Internet.

San Francisco Bay

Waiver defined a list applications that should bedeployed systems (Released: May 12, 2010):


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