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摘要

FirstNet made two big hires, as one board member reiterated past concerns about how the board isnoperating. It hired T.J. Kennedy, formerly director-public safety and security at Raytheon, to be its deputyngeneral manager, and Ed Parkinson, ex-staff member for the House Homeland Security Committee, as director-ngovernment affairs, it said in a news release Wednesday (http://1.usa.gov/133rbJG). FirstNet boardnmember Paul Fitzgerald, sheriff of Story County, Iowa, Wednesday reiterated past concerns about the motionnregarding FirstNet’s transparency he attempted to offer in April. Fitzgerald said he has receivedn“several inquiries” on the FirstNet Special Review Committee the board formed after his concerns werenraised. “As part of that process, in mid-July, I presented a lengthy document for review and supportingnevidence in relation to each of the points I raised in my motion to the lawyers acting as counsel to the SpecialnReview Committee,” Fitzgerald wrote in a news release earlier Wednesday. “Prior to my meetingnwith the Special Review Committee, I met with and presented that document and supporting evidence tonthe Inspector General Department of Commerce and his staff.” He won't comment on the presentation asnall parties continue their investigations, but is “hopeful” FirstNet will improve transparency through reforms,nhe said. He called the April motion “a last resort, after having been unable to obtain any meaningfulnresponses to my often-raised concerns within the FirstNet Board.”