Develop first responders' awareness of electronic interference

　　The private sector, law enforcement, and academic partners describe the impact of jamming on various communication systems and evaluate strategies and techniques to help responders better locate, identify, and mitigate the effects of jamming.

　　The goal is to enable state, federal and local operators to respond to, report, identify and resolve disruptive incidents without endangering communities or impacting missions.

　　How to improve community communication and organize disruptions to sabotage and other disruptive threats.

　　The first step to improving communications resilience is recognizing if there is an interference problem. Disruption or failure of wireless communications or mapping equipment – ​​including cellular, LMR or GPS systems – for unknown reasons could indicate jamming.

　　Interference metrics include the following:

　　Notice a significant loss of lock or general failure of GPS systems

　　Inability to communicate with usually reliable base station radios or repeaters

　　Inability to communicate in areas that typically have good radio or cellular coverage

　　Unable to communicate on multiple communication devices using multiple frequency bands

　　By moving a small distance from a fixed "dead zone", communication capabilities can be significantly improved

　　In a disturbed environment, emergency response or law enforcement missions may suffer due to lack of or unreliable communications, and they may not realize there is a problem. Instead of thinking that interference could be the source of the problem, many carriers think that if a communication device isn't working, it's just broken. Educating operators about disruption is a real problem, and making sure they understand what to do is critical to keeping responders and our communities safe.

　　Switch communication devices or frequency bands: Try using a different frequency band on radio, cellular, or SMS, or disconnect Bluetooth. Many jammer gps only target certain types of devices, so one device might have connectivity while others don't.

　　Move Away: Move 15-25 feet in any direction to see if coverage improves. If inside, try to move outwards and vice versa.

　　Once the main task is done, it is important to find the source of interference and eliminate it.