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Arizona Interagency Radio System
(AIRS)
Overview
The Arizona Interagency Radio
System (AIRS) is a suite of full-time, cross-banded mutual aid
channels designed to provide interoperable communications
capability to first responders of police, fire, and EMS
agencies, as well as other personnel of municipal, county,
state, tribal, federal agencies and approved non-governmental
organizations (NGO’s) performing public safety activities. This
system operates on designated interoperability frequencies in
the VHF, UHF and 800 MHz bands. Agencies wishing to operate on
AIRS must sign a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with the Department of Public Safety
(DPS) which holds the licenses for AIRS frequencies.
These radio frequencies are to be
used in the event of a multi-agency, multi-discipline, and/or
multi-jurisdictional operation requiring the use of the common
state radio channel(s), specifically for the use of
coordinating activities during identified incidents. AIRS
frequencies are not to be used by a single agency for routine
public safety operations. AIRS frequencies may, however, be
used by a single agency to reconstitute communications in the
event of a system failure or other significant communications
loss.
AIRS Resources
Note: The Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (SIEC) approved the AIRS State Plan - Standard Operating Procedures (AIRS SOP) at the SIEC meeting on October 14, 2009. The AIRS SOP will replace the AIRS State Plan and go into effect on December 1, 2009.
Arizona Interagency Radio System (AIRS) State Plan - Standard Operating Procedures 
AIRS
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
AIRS Regional
Channel Assignments & Coverage Maps
AIRS Programming
Guide
AIRS
Update - October, 2008
AIRS Training
Presentation
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