BOLTON, MISSISSIPPI – Today, United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security a $361,909.00 FY 2008 Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program (IECGP) Allocation.
The goal of IECGP is to improve local, tribal, regional, statewide, and national interoperable emergency communications, including communications in collective response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters. It calls for: (1). the establishment of formal interoperable emergency communications governance structures; (2). the establishment of common planning and operational protocols; (3). the establishment of emergency responder skills and capabilities through training.
For more information, please contact Jay Ledbetter, Director of the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security at (601) 346-1499. Website: www.homelandsecurity.ms.gov.