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U.S. Chief Technology Officer & Associate Director for Technology

White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
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Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/02/10/president-national-wireless-initiative-we-re-goinghave-our-game-marquette

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Wireless Innovation Fund to Boost Produc

Public Sector

-Influenced Industries Have Struggled to Ha

MIT Study finds 

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“data-driven 

decision-making” 

boosts 

productivity 5-6%

R&D in learning

technologies, smart grid, 

health IT, intelligent 

transportation, security

R&D in learning

technologies, smart grid, 

health IT, intelligent 

transportation, security

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; “Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance?”, Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson; McNotes (1): Excludes sectors with contributions with an absolute value of less than 0.015%. Numbers may not sum due to rounding.
Addressing Public Safety Requirements

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“Deep Dive”

Survivability

Requirements v1.0

Four Pillars

#1: Mission-critical voice“talk-around”

Hardened, Secure, 

Interoperable 

#2: Public safety packet prioritization

Evolve with #3: Security, authenticat

Survivable, 

“Always On”

capabilities#4: “Survivable Core” – NITRD 2010, “We must...

Commercial (Voice)

Dynamic, Public 

Safety Controls methods...for implement

rigorously isolated set of capabilities that can be r

to provide truly essenti

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Manor, TX – population 6,500 –

deploys free “SeeClickFix”

Manor, TX – population 6,500 –

deploys free “SeeClickFix”

platform including voice, web, 

mobile options; cost ~$38/month; 

NYC FY 2010 budget ~ $45M

deploys free SeeClickFix

platform including voice, web, 

mobile options; cost ~$38/month; 

NYC FY 2010 budget ~ $45M

Source: http://cityofmanor.org/wordpress/seeclickfix/ ; http://www.nyc.gov/apps/311/; www.300house.com