Failure Of Radio Interoperability Repeats Itself

April 17, 2007 Why can't a country that can send landing craft to Mars come up with the ability for police, fire and ambulance workers to talk to each other over the radio in an emergency? The nation learned the painful lesson during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. And the failure of radio "interoperability" repeated itself during rescue efforts by different agencies during Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana four years later. Now comes a report from ...