Overland Park, Kansas, January 12, 2017 – Collin County, Texas, has announced that a multi-year project to upgrade their public safety and government radio system is entering its third and final phase. Black & Veatch will provide the system implementation, acceptance testing and cutover support which will benefit the County and its 25 public safety partner agencies and departments.

“We have worked with Collin County since the inception of this system upgrade, which will provide improved radio coverage, system capabilities, capacity and reliability,” said Chris Krafft, Vice President of Public Safety in Black & Veatch’s telecommunications business.

The new system will consist of an 18-site 800 MHz P25 Phase 2 TDMA simulcast trunked radio system. Nine new radio sites will be fully integrated with the existing nine P25 sites owned and operated by the City of Plano.  The system is expected to be fully operational by the summer of 2018.

Black & Veatch also assisted with previous project phases that included a needs assessment, program development, budgetary cost estimates and procurement. The system also provides radio communications for Collin County’s local government operations that include the County’s Public Works Department, Facilities Maintenance Department and Animal Services.

Collin County is located in northeastern Texas and is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Area and has a population of approximately 855,000.

In the Dallas, Texas, area, Black & Veatch is also currently assisting the City of Dallas, Dallas County, the cities of Garland, Mesquite, Rowlett and Sachse, and Rockwall County and the cities of Rockwall, Heath, Fait, Royse City, and McLendon Chisholm with similar radio system replacement projects.

In August 2015, Black & Veatch acquired global engineering and consulting firm, RCC Consultants, which delivered telecommunications services for public safety networks.

Learn more about Black & Veatch’s public safety telecommunications capabilities at bv.com/publicsafety.

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