The NCRCIG exists to facilitate rapid, targeted expansions of public safety communications capabilities in support of emergencies and planned events in the National Capital Region.
The NCRCIG houses the NCR radio cache which consists of over 1,200 radios that are managed as three separate sub-caches of 400+ devices based in the District of Columbia (DC), Maryland, and Virginia.
In addition to radios, the cache contains cellular and tactical land mobile radio systems that permit interconnection of disparate radio infrastructure, including portable repeaters for localized operations and other special equipment for in-building, low-grade, and underground tunnel communications.
Developed and maintained by the NCR, utilizing the Department of Homeland Security – Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI), the NCRCIG program has supported over 500 deployments since 2004, with over 40,000 assets deployed.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
777 North Capital Street NE, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 962-3200