The state of Rhode Island has been awarded an $856,000 grant from the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Information Technology Evaluation Program to fund its Port Security Telecommunications Network in Narragansett Bay, Governor Donald L. Carcieri announced recently.
Rhode Island received almost 10 percent of the total funding and was one of just 12 projects in the U.S., out of a total of 113 submissions that received a grant award.
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The project, the Port Security Telecommunications Network, will provide a joint and discreet communications system that gives voice, data and video to field units, and will have the ability to integrate a range of sensors and early warning devices – video cameras and encoders, undersea sensors, motion and proximity sensors, and biochemical sensors – into one comprehensive security system, the governor said.
The four agencies instrumental in receiving the award are the RI Economic Development Corporation, state Emergency Management Agency, Department of Environmental Management and Lockheed Martin Corporation. Other partners in the pilot demonstration project include the Rhode Island Bridge and Turnpike Authority, Port of Providence Terminals, Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the United States Coast Guard.
The other 11 submissions out of 113 proposals that received grant awards were the following Arizona, Alabama, California, Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin.
