City of Fort Worth Texas, P25 Upgrade
Fort Worth, Texas

The City owns and operates two 20 channel Motorola analog 800 MHz radio communication systems which support the City’s public safety and local government agencies and 14 adjoining public safety, educational, federal, state, and local government entities. Buford Goff & Associates, Inc. has assisted the City with preparation and acceptance of a Regional Plan and Master plan for upgrading the system to a TIA Project 25 standards based (P25) 700/800 MHz communications solution.  This upgrade represents the initial phase of a digital regional radio network infrastructure anchored by the City, which can be shared among, not only the current users in the adjoining governmental entities, but sized and configured for scalable growth to accommodate additional participants/users within the Metro complex.  BGA is now providing Quality Assurance oversight of the system implementation.