Ranken Technical College

Alumni

Stephen Devine

Communication Electronics, 1985

Steve Devine is a 1985 graduate of the Communications Electronics program at Ranken and has been employed by the Missouri State Highway Patrol for the past 21 years.

He has testified on behalf of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International before the U.S. House of Representatives on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations on public safety interoperability and planning issues.

He has testified on behalf of APCO International before the United States Senate Commerce Committee on the Digital Television Transition (DTV).  He has participated on a panel of subject matter experts in the FCC’s Cognitive Radio Technologies Workshop.

He participated in the Software Defined Radio Forum 2001 through 2004 on behalf of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  He has served as Chairperson for the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council’s 4.9 GHz Task Force, the APCO International Automated Frequency Coordination Advisory Committee, the Subcommittee on Spectrum Management, the Regional Planning Committee within the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council 2003-2005, the Subcommittee Working Group 3 within the Interoperability Subcommittee of the National Coordination Committee (NCC), and he founded and served as Chair of the National Association of Regional Planning Committees (NARPC).

Currently, Steve serves as an advisor for the National Institute of Justice Technology Working Group (TWG) program providing state and local public safety perspective on projects and programs and how those initiatives can better serve the public safety user community. Steve also currently serves on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFECOM Program Advisory Committee, providing the state and local public safety perspective on communications interoperability, state and local planning needs and recommending methods to improve overall public safety communications.

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