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Trey Forgety
National Emergency Number Association
Director of Government Affairs
Alexandria, VA
Trey Forgety joined NENA: The 9-1-1 Association in 2010 after two years as a Presiden-tial Management Fellow in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Emer-gency Communications. During that time, he served temporarily with the Federal Com-munications Commission’s (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and with the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Admin-istration (NTIA). At the FCC, Trey developed recommendations for the Public Safety chapter of the National Broadband Plan. Later, at Commerce, he worked to implement the Plan’s recommendations as NTIA evaluated applications to the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP). Both at NTIA and DHS, he participated in discussions with senior Obama administration officials from the Office of the Vice President, the Of-fice of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Economic Council to develop policies for the deployment of a nationwide mobile broadband network for first responders. Trey holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Phys-ics and a Doctor of Jurisprudence, both from the University of Tennessee.