impact and draft appropriate documents that can be forwarded to other NENA Committee's or regulatory and industry standard organizations in order to ensure all devices may access 9-1-1 anytime and anywhere.  The Committee pools the respective knowledge of its members to understand new technology implications, bring appropriate technologies to the attention of the 9-1-1 community and describe the impact on emergency call services.

The committee consists of several Working Groups:

• Telematics: Voice and Data Services Impacting 9-1-1
• Aircraft internet
• Future 9-1-1 Models

Any NENA member interested in joining any Non-Traditional Working Groups, please review the Scopes & Goals at the bottom of the page and then contact the Committee Chair or Vice Chair to be added to a specific working group.

Chair
Dave Irwin
Washington Military Department, Emergency Management Division
253.512.7017
David Irwin has over 34 years of telecommunications experience in radio systems (VHF, UHF, SHF and AM), Satellite, Microwave, and telephony.  Retired from the United States Army as an Area Communications Chief with a myriad of responsibilities for fixed facility communications and tactical networks for secure and non-secure world wide telecommunications.  Began working for the Washington State Emergency Management Division in 1994 to develop and place into operation a 24x7x365 Alert and Warning Center with redundant communications capabilities. In 1997 was moved to the Enhanced 9-1-1 statewide program as the Network and Database Administrator to continue with the implementation of E911 and transition to a fully operational enhanced 911 system statewide by December 1998.  Upgraded Washington State ALI data circuits to Frame Relay with dormant capacity to link all PSAP radio systems via VoIP and statistical gathering capabilities.  Redesigned the 911 networks and trunking to remove eleven Selective Routers and replace with mated Tandems in the east and west sides of the state for reliability and survivability.  Serves as the First Vice-Chair to the Emergency Services Interconnection Forum.

Positron
518.894.8911
Paul McLaren is currently Director of Support Engineering for Positron Public Safety Systems.  With more than 30 years experience in Public Safety, Paul is a past PSAP Manager from New York State, K-9 dog handler, Paramedic and volunteer firefighter.  Educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY his degree is in Electrical Engineering with advanced work in propagation studies.  Paul is a well known speaker on technology issues and has taught classes in public safety technology, VoIP, GIS, Para-medicine, Land Navigation, disaster recover and GPS.  During the past 10 years working for Positron Pubic Safety, he has been instrumental in implementing numerous public safety solutions including 9-1-1, CAD, trunked radio, mobile data and mapping systems.  Paul’s exposure to Public Safety agencies world wide has given him a unique perspective of solutions for emergency call handling and response.

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