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David Aylward serves on the Steering Committee for the OASIS Emergency Interoperability Member Section; his term extends to April 2009. He is a Director and Treasurer of the Emergency Interoperability Consortium (www.eic.org). David is a founder and Director of COMCARE (www.comcare.org), one of EIC's members. COMCARE is a diverse, 100-organization non-profit alliance committed to improving emergency response, in part through the use of modern, interoperable communications and information tools. It is currently involved in a wide variety of emergency response projects funded by its members and various state and federal agencies. COMCARE’s organizational members represent the wide diversity of the emergency response community. It encourages cooperation across professional, jurisdictional and geographic lines, seeking to improve effectiveness bridging the gaps that separate government, the public, private industry, and emergency professions. It promotes the adoption of modern, interoperable emergency systems and the development of new procedures, training and tools to maximize their value for emergency responders. Mr. Aylward is also President of National Strategies, Inc. which he helped found in 1985, following eight years of service on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1981 to 1985, Mr. Aylward was Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance, which had jurisdiction over the US communications and securities industries, and a variety of federal consumer protection legislation, including automobile safety. In the 1970's he practiced contracts law with the firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Mr. Aylward held senior positions in two presidential campaigns, and managed four congressional election campaigns. He received a BA from Dartmouth College in 1971, where he was Editor in Chief of the daily newspaper, and a JD with High Honors from The National Law Center of The George Washington University in 1976, where he also served on the Law Review. He is married with three children and six grandchildren.

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