Courtesy Story | Colorado National Guard | 08.21.2017
The Colorado National Guard is participating in a cyber defense exercise with state and local agencies to test interoperability between military and emergency response assets at Highlands Ranch Law Enforcement Training Facility Aug. 20-24...
Story by 2nd Lt. Cheresa D. Clark | Colorado National Guard | 07.14.2015
Nearly 200 personnel representing multiple first response, military, private-sector and nonprofit agencies set up their hard drives and antennas at the Highlands Ranch Law Enforcement Training Facility July 13-15 for a full-scale, statewide interoperable communications exercise....
Story by Whitney Katz | Joint Enabling Capabilities Command | 06.25.2013
Six members of the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command’s Joint Communications Support Element deployed to Colorado from May 15-16 to bring continued communications support to U.S. Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) Vital Connection program. This program includes a series of three annual exercises held in various states across the nation and is designed to test communications interoperability......
Story by Whitney Katz | Joint Enabling Capabilities Command | 03.14.2013
Six members of the Joint Communications Support Element, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., recently participated in a state-wide exercise that tested communications interoperability between state, local, federal and Department of Defense organizations....
Story by Sgt. Lauren Twigg | Arizona National Guard Public Affairs | 09.20.2011
Agencies from across the state, and some from as far as Virginia, attended Vital Connection here, Sept. 12–15. Vital Connection is a U.S. Northern Command endorsed an interoperability communications exercise, which involves local, tribal, state and federal agencies in an effort to eliminate communication interferences in a time of wide-spread emergency....
