Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) tours the Los Angeles Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s new Mobile Command Center with Special Agent Greg Wing (shown center inside the command center) and Assistant Director-in-Charge J. Stephen Tidwell (shown left inside the command center). With the assistance of $1 million in federal funds secured by the congresswoman who sits on the Appropriations Homeland Security Committee, the FBI commissioned the building of the $1.3 million vehicle in 2004, and it was completed and delivered to Los Angeles in December of 2005. The command post vehicle features state-of-the-art communications and information processing capabilities, and allows the FBI to have a fully functional platform from which personnel can process and access secure information at a forward deployed position, while maintaining seamless communications with the main field office and FBI Headquarters. The Mobile Command Center, which services the western region of the United States, is one of five such vehicles in the nation built to the FBI's information processing and surveillance specifications and now serves as a model for law enforcement agencies throughout the country. The center was used for the first time during the 2006 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA where FBI agents were able to use the center to assist the Pasadena Police Department and Rose Bowl organizers in managing and coordinating law enforcement activities at the event. The Mobile Command Center is used by the FBI on nearly a weekly basis at major events in the Southern California region.
 

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