TIA Policy Committees & Divisions

TIA Policy Committees, Divisions, and Working Groups - Your Ticket to Shaping Our Agenda

• Public Policy Committee (PPC) and International Committee (IC)
  
  • Chair: Mark Walker, Walker and Associates, Inc.
  • Primary policy group responsible for establishing and advocating TIA positions on domestic public policy issues and strategies that represent the consensus of the membership.
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• Standards and IPR Policy Committee (SIPC)
  
  • Chair: Amy Marasco, Microsoft
  • Advocates policies to U.S. and international governments on issues that impact standardization, including issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) within the standardization process.
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PPC Working Groups Section

Accessibility Working Group (AWG)

• Chair: David Dougall, Research In Motion
• Advocates public policy positions related to ensuring that persons with disabilities have access to communications products and services.
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Broadband and Convergence Working Group (BCWG)

• Chair: Gary Bolton, ADTRAN
• Shapes public policy that affects the development, deployment, and utilization of a robust nationwide broadband infrastructure with the goal of achieving global competitiveness and to facilitate convergence of next-generation voice, data, and video applications, and other intermingled services offered over innovative devices.
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Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG)

• Advocates public policy positions related to the security of ICT equipment and services.

The Energy & Environment Working Group (EEWG)

• Chair: Mark Sharp, Panasonic
• Advocates public policy positions related to the role of ICT equipment and services in reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions in other more energy intensive sectors through “smart” technologies (smart grid, smart buildings, intelligent transportation, travel substitution) as well as issues related to the environmental footprint of the ICT sector (energy efficiency and environmental regulations).
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Health Information Technology Working Group (HITWG)

• Chair: Vacant
• Advocates public policy positions related to the development of health IT policies and related governmental action.
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Public Safety Communications Working Group (PSCWG)

• Chair: Kevin Krufky, Alcatel-Lucent
• Makes efforts to educate and inform Members of Congress and key policymakers on matters relating to the role of public safety communications in homeland security.
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Small and Medium-Sized Entity Working Group (SMEWG)

• Chair: Bryan Glutting, ACS Solutions
• Advocates public policy positions related to the needs and interests of small- and medium-sized entities that either provide services or manufacture equipment for the ICT industry.
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Spectrum Policy Working Group (SPWG)

• Chair: Vacant
• Advocates public policy positions related to spectrum use, management, and availability.
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Divisions

• Communications Research Division (CRD)
  
  • Chair: Adam Drobot
  • Vice Chair: Jake MacLeod
  • Advocates public policy positions related to supporting a robust U.S. research ecosystem including polices that promote federal and private funding for ICT research, immigration reform and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.
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• Technical Regulatory Policy Committee (TRPC)
  
  • Chair: Chuck Eger, Motorola Mobility
  • Advocates public policy positions related to the streamlining clarifying the mechanisms of the FCC equipment certification processes and procedures through interaction with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), its Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) and its laboratory, and other governmental bodies, including but not limited to those issues which are affected by related TIA standardization activities.
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• User Premises Equipment Division (UPED)
  
  • Chair: Fred Lucas, FAL Associates
  • Advocates public policy positions related to the needs and interests of manufacturers of user premises equipment, including but not limited to those issues which are affected by related TIA standardization activities.
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• Wireless Communications Division (WDC)
  
  • Chair: Chuck Powers, Motorola Solutions
  • Private Radio Section (PRS) Chair: Bob Speidel, Harris
  • Advocates public policy positions related to the needs and interests of manufacturers of two-way radio equipment, including but not limited to those issues which are affected by related TIA standardization activities. Within the division, the Private Radio Section (PRS) concentrates on commercial two-way radio systems utilized by the industrial, transportation and governmental sectors.
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