 Some fire services already have some of the proposed equipment some three years before the final RCC goes live.In support of the new control rooms an additional government project called FireLink is delivering a new digital radio system called "Airwave".In March 2007, then Fire and Rescue service minister Angela Smith announced that EADS Defence & Security (now Airbus Defence & Space) had been awarded an eight-year £200m contract to supply the IT infrastructure for the RCCs.