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Motorola Solutions View of Secure Mobility In Federal Government Preview

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Channel: Motorola Solutions · 2018 · Science & Technology

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A Federal Executive Forum on Secure Mobility in the U.S. Federal Government convened leaders from CBP, DOJ, State Dept and industry. Preview the panel discussion with Motorola Solutions view on recent challenges, progress and vision of the future. 

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 00:16
 (Mark McNulty, Vice President, Motorola Solutions) I’ll thank Dave for the tee up. So obviously we have a huge heritage in LMR, offering its own mobility for both voice and data. And by the way, with it comes security, reliability, and ease of use. Which historically has been easier to do since these have been closed systems. Everything from continuity of supply chain and where the components are coming from. How it gets here has been easy to track which allows us to keep it highly secure. And again, being a closed system allows for security. 

00:47
There’s a lot of good progress both in DHS as the components there modernize their networks with IP based LMR networks as well as in DOJ where there’s enterprise efforts there. And enterprise efforts across the Department of Defense with both Navy and Army looking at their enterprise approaches to LMR leveraging IP. As we leverage IP for backhaul and connectivity of traditional LMR networks it brings some efficiencies, it also produces some new risks. So there’s a lot of work going on the cyber space to make sure we continue to secure those networks and achieve ATO’s across the government. 

01:24
And, if I can take a look forward, the progress we’re making is how do we take the things we learned in our traditional role in the cellular business, that we’re no longer in, and the LMR space and bring that into the new world with things like FirstNet. Connecting traditional, now IP based LMR networks with a FirstNet network. So it doesn’t matter what that investigator or what that attorney is using, which device they’re using or which network they’re on, we can connect them and maintain security end-to-end.

01:58 
So I mentioned a couple earlier in the progress question. But obviously across DHS, the CBP RIPs program, which is their radio over IP is a big modernization effort for them. Similar efforts at ICE and a highly anticipated award out of Federal Protective Service. But again, more around the traditional LMR applications but leveraging IP transport. 

02:25
I think the other one, and we talked about it before, is FirstNet. Obviously states are starting to opt in and that program is going to get a lot of legs and Federal users are considered co-primary users to police, fire, and EMS. So, when applications for federal law enforcement can get priority and pre-emptive service on both AT&T’s current networks as well as the band class 14 that they’ll build out, it’s pretty exciting. 

02:51
And then, I’ll make another plug for a program at NSA called the Commercial Solutions for Classified program, where we had some success in a program that we did for one of our federal law enforcement agencies that we obviously can’t talk about. But, I think what that program demonstrated is that we can layer multiple commercially available security solutions together and really achieve the same level of security we were getting out of government purpose built devices in the past.

03:21
Nice thing about going last is you can build off things that everybody else said. I like the theme of focusing on the user. And to think they’re all users of technology in their own personal lives, it’s about minimizing complexity. They expect to be just as simply to use at work as it is at home, where they’re getting help from their kids. Harv mentioned security and Dave mentioned productivity, which I’ll equate productivity with usability. Historically there’s been this binary. You can get usability with no security or low security. Or you get really high usability, I’m sorry, you get really security, but it’s very difficult to use. I think what we’ve learned and where we’re going is in a direction where we’re going to get a high level of usability and still achieve very high levels of security.

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