Important Announcement Concerning AGILE
The AGILE program has been one of the most successful programs of the National Institute of Justice. When interoperability was barely recognized at the national level as a critical public safety concern, AGILE laid a critical foundation for policy development, standards, and technology research that is universally recognized and praised. All of us at NIJ are proud of the role that AGILE has played for law enforcement and all of public safety.
In the last year, the Department of Homeland Security's SAFECOM program has become re-energized and much more active. SAFECOM provides a much-needed coordination function for all the Federal government's interoperability programs and has successfully built upon AGILE's work with the public safety community.
As a result, NIJ is restructuring its program in this area. We are bringing AGILE to a close, and initiating a new program, called Communications Technology, or CommTech. Unlike AGILE, CommTech will not play a primary role in coordinating the public safety community's interoperability policies or do other work that may be duplicative of SAFECOM's overarching responsibilities. Like AGILE, CommTech will work to inform SAFECOM's policy, coordination, and technology development activities.
NIJ's CommTech program will:
- Focus on the needs of law enforcement, with a view to all of public safety.
- Focus on research, development, test and evaluation.
- Reflect law enforcement's need for improved information sharing and intelligence.
This new program and mission more closely reflect NIJ's role in the scientific and criminal justice communities, thus limiting any confusion among the public and policy-makers. NIJ is reviewing all of its former AGILE work to determine how it does or does not fit within this reorganization.
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