Overview: What Is Interoperability and Integration?
The challenges of interoperability and integration have plagued government agencies for decades. Events like terrorist attacks and natural disasters underscore the critical need for fast, accurate and dependable information sharing and collaboration both within individual agencies and between those agencies and others.
Interoperability depends on integration — on government and public agencies having instant access to critical information in the event of disasters and during the course of normal operations. Communication-related problems such as blackouts, equipment failures, and delayed responses can hinder the best efforts of those that need to respond. Voice and data communication links among all state and local agencies are integral to the success of cooperative agency efforts.
Interoperability depends on integration — on government and public agencies having instant access to critical information in the event of disasters and during the course of normal operations. Communication-related problems such as blackouts, equipment failures, and delayed responses can hinder the best efforts of those that need to respond. Voice and data communication links among all state and local agencies are integral to the success of cooperative agency efforts.
