Justice Management Division
Serving Justice - Securing Results

The Integrated Wireless Network (IWN) allows the Department to rapidly establish and implement a minimum operational baseline to achieve its strategic goals, while allowing for increased functionality when funding permits. IWN supports the replacement and modernization of failing radio systems, correction of security deficiencies, addresses mandated technical standards (for which the Department is currently in violation), and achieves communications standards that directly support Agent Safety for the DOJ's four law enforcement agencies (ATF, DEA, FBI, USMS). The consolidated IWN approach leverages existing Agency radio sites wherever practical, while focusing on providing efficient, comparable coverage for ATF, DEA, FBI, and the USMS. All four Law Enforcement components will share a unified radio network, thus eliminating redundant coverage and duplicative radio sites. To address the increasing sophistication of criminals and terrorists, the DOJ's law enforcement missions require wireless communications with the following capabilities: Coverage- flexible communications services available wherever agents need to operate. Security- voice communications must be encrypted. Reliability- communications services must always be available. Interoperability- DOJ agents must be able to communicate with agents and officers from other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The interoperability must be dynamic and achieved rapidly in order to account for changing environments and degree of needs of officer safety. Flexibility- communication services type depends on mission (surveillance, arrest, protective detail, task force coordination, incident response). These capabilities will support the wide range of DOJ agent missions including, but not limited to: investigative or counterintelligence surveillance operations; protective details for VIPs; fugitive or other task force arrest operations; and coordination with state and local law enforcement during an emergency scenario.

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