Representatives from Union County in Clayton, New Mexico announced that they have issued Federal Engineering, Inc. (FE) a contract to provide Land Mobile Radio (LMR) consulting services to assess the current VHF radio systems and evaluate alternatives for a replacement 800 MHz system or joining the State of New Mexico’s Digital Trunked Radio System (DTRS). Union County currently utilizes three VHF radio systems for its police, fire, and EMS agencies. The coverage across these three systems is inconsistent, resulting in coverage gaps as well as outside interference due to transmission irregularities.

“We have selected Federal Engineering to perform a needs assessment of our radio systems that includes site audits for our 8 current sites.” Declared Mr. Kristopher Lawrence, Emergency Manager for Union County. “Upon additional analysis of the system, FE will evaluate alternative choices for our systems by assessing our coverage, interference, technologies, and system configurations. FE will also develop a conceptual design and budgetary cost estimates for either a replacement of the current radio system or migration onto the State’s DTRS.”

Mr. Rajit Jhaver, Associate Vice President at Federal Engineering, stated: “FE has been providing consulting services in New Mexico for over 39 years across numerous cities and counties throughout the state. FE brings extensive experience consulting on thousands of similar radio projects for local, county, and state government agencies, providing needs assessments and requirements definitions through RFP developments, system procurements, and successful deployments.”

“FE is committed to client success and is constantly looking for ways to help public safety and local governments work more efficiently. FE achieves these standards by providing leadership, guidance, and innovation that results in unparalleled client satisfaction. FE is committed to total independence, free from the influence of hardware vendors, software suppliers, system integrators, or managed service providers. Objective independence and vendor neutrality are core values of our company, which makes us a truly trusted advisor to our clients,” concluded Mr. Jhaver

Federal Engineering is a leading nationwide firm that provides analysis, design, procurement, and implementation support in public safety and public service communications. These services complement FE’s wide range of dispatch center consulting services in NG911, PSAPs, EOCS, ECCs, and RTTCs. FE’s cybersecurity practice helps our clients defend against today’s complex and ever-changing threat landscape. FE personnel also serve as trusted advisors assisting clients to assess services such as FirstNet® and the impacts of new technologies on their current and future plans. Since 1983, FE has completed thousands of communications projects in all 50 states for numerous state, local, and federal government clients as well as Canadian clients.

In addition to its public sector work, Federal Engineering provides design and implementation support services for voice, data, and video networks used in the transportation, utilities, finance, education, and computer services industries. FE’s certified independence ensures that clients receive objective, unbiased consulting services that are not influenced by any technology, product, vendor, or approach.