Unpromising Prospects For Improved First-Responder Communications / Officer.com, 25 Nov 2005

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=27102&siteSection=20
Tim Starks
"Both the independent Sept. 11 commission and Congress have since determined that interoperable communications -- the ability of disparate first-responders to communicate seamlessly -- was a top priority. Since then, state and local agencies have spent $1.6 billion in Department of Homeland Security grants to streamline first-responder communications."