The Federal Communications Commission has announced plans
to establish a “public safety and homeland security bureau”
designed to better address emergency management and
preparedness, disaster management, and other related issues.
The new bureau will consist of a front office with senior
leadership and management staff and be organized into three
divisions: policy, public communications outreach and
operations, and communications systems analysis, according
to an agency statement.
It said the bureau would take on issues and functions that
have been dispersed among several bureaus and offices,
including public safety communications, interoperability
and operability of public safety communications, disaster
management coordination, and disaster management outreach.
The changes require congressional notification as well as
collaboration with the National Treasury Employees Union
where union employees are concerned.
