Harris Public Safety & Professional Communications

Harris Corporation Public Safety & Professional Communications Market Research Study - Vision 2016

You have been invited to participate in a survey to gather ideas on the future of Public Safety missions. A description of the objective and goals of this survey are noted below.

Following are a series of short questions for you to answer. Please give us your thoughts and thank you for your participation.

Objective: To identify what public safety missions will look like in 5 years

1.What will the dispatch center, law enforcement officer, firefighter, and EMT/paramedic look like in 5 years?
2.What will public safety communications look like and what will we have to support in 5 years?

Goal: To obtain information and ideas that can be used to get our product development and technology assets where the need will be in 2016. In addition to specific products, we would like to understand what applications and network functionality would need to be in place for public safety professionals to excel at their jobs in 2016.

What will citizens expect in 2016 from their public safety agencies?

What will the upcoming Gen X & Y leaders in public safety expect in 2016 from their employees, their vendors and their citizens?

What will the public safety dispatch center be like in 5 years? What kind of applications and functionality will be supported?

What new capabilities will a police officer have in 5 years? What kind of applications and devices will they use?

What new capabilities will a firefighter have in 5 years? What kind of applications and devices will they use?

What new capabilities will an EMT/Paramedic have in 5 years? What kind of applications and devices will they use?

What tools and techniques used by public safety today will be replaced or on the decline in 2016?

What new threats will emerge by 2016 and what will happen to the old threats (like organized crime, gangs, hazardous waste, etc.)?