OREGON SELECTS FEDERAL ENGINEERING AS DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CONSULTANT FOR STATE PUBLIC SAFETY WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

FAIRFAX , VIRGINIA , March 29, 2006 — The State of Oregon has awarded Federal Engineering a $1 million contract to provide planning, designing, and implementation support services for a statewide public safety wireless communications system. Under this contract, FE will aid the Oregon State Interoperability Executive Council in addressing the growing need for interoperability among public safety organizations in the State. FE will supply technical assistance in a wide range of areas including user needs assessments, site surveys, propagation analyses, systems analyses and design recommendations.

“This project will assess the ability of public safety responders to communicate effectively and develop strategic and tactical recommendations for creating a statewide interoperable radio communications system,” said FE’s President Ronald F. Bosco.

FE will meet with first responder organizations to understand their current and future requirements as well as to gather inventory data regarding existing systems. The project will identify the gaps in radio communications among Oregon’s state emergency response organizations and recommend systems to eliminate those gaps. Another goal of the project is to establish and promote partnerships among public safety agencies at the local, tribal, state and federal levels.

“FE’s approach will be highly interactive to accurately garner user needs and to build consensus at all levels,” continued Bosco. “We believe there must be strong “demand pull” in order for a statewide public safety communications plan to be successful. Our methodology, therefore, places great emphasis upon building stakeholder unity.”

 “The state conducted an exhaustive, multi-phase competitive acquisition process that included extensive responses by bidders and reference checking”, indicated Mr. Timothy Walker, State Procurement Analyst. “The process placed significant emphasis on selecting an independent consulting firm that had successfully completed public safety communications programs for other state governments. Federal Engineering was chosen due to their intimate knowledge of statewide public safety mobile radio having completed projects for several of our neighboring states.”

 FE provides a wide range of design and management services in public safety, Internet access, intranets, fiber optics, satellite, microwave, paging, mobile radio, fiber/HFC networking, and distance learning technologies. The firm also provides security analyses, disaster recovery planning, strategic assessments, product analyses, market research, and business planning services in telecommunications and related fields.

As a nationwide communications systems planning and design firm, Federal Engineering develops voice, data, and video networks for a wide range of end users, including organizations in the aerospace, energy, finance, education, publishing, and computer services fields. In addition to its private sector work, FE has completed hundreds of communications projects for 26 state governments, as well as numerous local and federal government clients. FE’s certified independence ensures that clients receive objective, unbiased consulting services that are not influenced by any particular technology, product, vendor, or approach.