Wireless Voice and Data and Data Applications -- District of Columbia Wireless Interoperability Network (DWINS)
In December of 2001, in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, TDC was contracted by The District of Columbia, Office of the chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to develop a strategy and program plan for integrating the District's Public Safety radio programs into an OCTO Wireless Programs Area division. OCTO was tasked by the Mayor and City Council with integrating District radio engineering and operations into a consolidated communications agency, the Office Unified Communications (OUC), and to provide engineering and project management for major radio initiatives within the District.
In the early stages of this strategy and the program office development and implementation effort, the District was the beneficiary of a Federal grant to enhance and optimize radio communication capabilities in the District. The OCTO Wireless Program Area was immediately tasked with all program definition, management, network and system engineering, vendor contracting, construction management, training, operational procedures and all attributes required to successfully accomplish a program of this scale and complexity. As an added challenge, the OCTO Wireless Program Area team agreed to complete this program within an 18-month time frame, less than half the time normally required for programs of this size and scope. These were unusually sensitive times affecting security and communications in the nation's capital requiring an urgent response, which the TDC wireless team delivered.
