Queens Crap: That "vital communications system" isn't so vital

From the Daily News:

TWO YEARS after unveiling a $549 million public-safety wireless data network that the NYPD and FDNY have been slow to embrace, the Bloomberg administration tried and failed to sell it back to its builder.

Bloomberg aides approached the defense giant Northrop Grumman last year about purchasing the system, dubbed the New York City Wireless Network (NYCWiN), and then leasing it back to the city.

Since its launch in 2009, NYCWiN has attracted far fewer users than its capacity, and the system is costing more than $38 million annually to maintain, documents obtained by the Daily News show.

The city made the offer during negotiations on a new five-year contract for Northrop to service the system, a spokesman for the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications confirmed this week.

But the company rejected the concept and opted instead for another $200 million contract just to maintain the system for the next five years.

So why would City Hall want to sell a network it has trumpeted as assuring vital public-safety data in case of another natural disaster or terrorist attack?

Well, officials are reluctant to admit it, but its public safety agencies aren?t exactly embracing NYCWiN.

So we're being microwaved by city-owned towers for nothing? Who got rich off this contract?

Source: http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2012/02/that-vital-communications-system-isnt.html

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