(7) coordinate geospatial information sharing 
processes between the Department and other Fed-
eral, State, and local agencies; and 
(8) to the extent practicable, utilize commercial 
geospatial data and services to meet the geospatial 
information needs of the Department or to supple-
ment the geospatial activities of the Department and 
its directorates. 
(b) GEOSPATIAL MANAGEMENT OFFICE.—The Sec-
retary of Homeland Security shall establish a Geospatial 
Management Office. The head of such office shall be the 
Geospatial Information Officer, who shall be responsible 
for coordinating the geospatial information activities of 
the Department of Homeland Security, with support and 
assistance from other Directorates and offices within the 
Department. 
(c) DEFINED TERMS.—As used in this subsection: 
(1) GEOSPATIAL
INFORMATION.—The term 
‘‘geospatial information’’ means graphical or digital 
data depicting natural or manmade physical fea-
tures, phenomena, or boundaries of the earth and 
any information related thereto, including surveys, 
maps, charts, remote sensing data, and images. 
(2) 
GEOSPATIAL
TECHNOLOGY.—The 
term 
‘‘geospatial technology’’ means any technology uti-
lized 
by 
analysts, 
specialists, 
surveyors, 
photogrammetrists, hydrographers, geodesists, car-
tographers, architects, or engineers for the collec-
tion, 
storage, 
retrieval, 
or 
dissemination 
of 
geospatial information, including global satellite sur-
veillance systems, global position systems (GPS), ge-
ographic information systems (GIS), mapping equip-
ment, geocoding technology, and remote sensing de-
vices. 
SEC. 310. INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS. 
(a) COORDINATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY INTEROPER-
ABLE COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMS.—The Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall establish a program to enhance 
public safety interoperable communications at all levels of 
government. Such program shall—
(1) establish a comprehensive national approach 
to achieving public safety interoperable communica-
tions; 
(2) coordinate with other Federal agencies in 
carrying out paragraph (1); 
(3) develop, in consultation with other appro-
priate Federal agencies and State and local authori-
ties, an appropriate baseline of communications 
interoperability for Federal, State, and local public 
safety agencies;
(4) accelerate, in consultation with other Fed-
eral agencies, including the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, the private sector, and 
nationally recognized standards organizations as ap-
propriate, the development of national voluntary 
consensus standards for public safety interoperable 
communications; 
(5) encourage the development of flexible and 
open architectures, with appropriate levels of secu-
rity, for short-term and long-term solutions to public 
safety communications interoperability; 
(6) assist other Federal agencies in identifying 
priorities for research, development, and testing and 
evaluation with regard to public safety interoperable 
communications; 
(7) identify priorities within the Department for 
research, development, and testing and evaluation 
with regard to public safety interoperable commu-
nications; 
(8) establish coordinated guidance for Federal 
grant programs for public safety interoperable com-
munications; 
(9) provide technical assistance to State and 
local public safety agencies regarding planning, ac-
quisition strategies, interoperability architectures,