VIA ELECTRONIC FILING

February 4, 2014

Marlene H. Dortch SecretaryFederal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554

Re: Notice of Ex Parte Presentation

Oceus Networks and Space Data Corporation PS Docket No. 11-15

Dear Ms. Dortch:

On January 31, 2014, Jerry Knoblach, Chairman and CEO and Jerry Quenneville, VP, Business Development of Space Data Corporation, and Douglas Sharp, Director of Engineering, and Jay Chauhan, Oceus Networks, Inc. met with David Simpson, Bureau Chief; Kenneth Moran, Senior Deputy Chief; Thomas Beers, Chief, Policy Division; Eric Panketh, Chief, Operations and Emergency Management Division; Clete Johnson, Chief Counsel for Cybersecurity; Rasoul Safavian, Chief Technologist; and Behzad Ghaffari, Chief, Systems Engineering, of the FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (“PSHSB”).

Space Data Corporation and Oceus Networks (“DACA Testing Partners”) briefed the PSHSB attendees on the results of a July 2013 test of a high altitude balloon platform outfitted with a 4G LTE payload to assess the viability of using a deployable aerial communications architecture (DACA) for communications restorations within the first 72 hours of a disaster.DACA Testing Partners highlighted the key results of the test and recommended further actions

that the Commission could take to enable the use of DACA by FirstNet and other public safety users in the event of a disaster.

The materials presented during the meeting are attached as Appendix A. In addition, a full DACA test report prepared by the DACA Testing Partners is filed as a separate attachment.

Please contact me with any questions.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Jay Chauhan___________Jay Chauhan

Regulatory Counsel for Oceus Networks

cc: David Simpson Kenneth Moran Thomas Beers Eric Panketh Clete Johnson Rasoul Safavian Behzad Ghaffari

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