During its final meeting of the year, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) board looked back at 2019 and laid out its priorities for 2020.

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The effective date of the rules adopted in the Kari’s Law Act of 2017 and Section 506 of RAY BAUM’S Act is Jan. 6.

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The SAFECOM-National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC) NG911 Working Group developed a next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) Self-Assessment Tool for use by state, regional and local public-safety answering point (PSAP) and emergency communications center leadership.

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House Energy and Commerce Committee lawmakers discussed T-band, 9-1-1 fee diversion and next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) funding as important issues during an FCC oversight hearing Dec. 5.

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The Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) released two new reports and added two working groups.

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The FCC declined to propose changes to its existing RF emission exposure limits following a notice of inquiry and an August proposal to maintain the limits. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) requires the FCC to evaluate the effects of human exposure to RF energy emitted by commission-regulated transmitters and facilities.

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CentralSquare announced it accelerated the development of an interconnected 9-1-1 dispatch system in Georgia, with more than 30 agencies in the Atlanta area eligible to leverage access to CentralSquare CAD to CAD. As a result, these agencies are gaining real-time situational awareness across their jurisdictions, which can cut emergency response time by up to 2 minutes per incident.

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InterTalk will work as a subcontractor for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) V Division Radio Modernization project. The project is for a new Project 25 (P25) mission-critical communications system.

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San Francisco’s outdoor warning sirens will take a break during the next two years to upgrade the reliability and security of the system. The Outdoor Public Warning System (OPWS) will sound the test alarm Dec. 10 for the last time before the system is temporarily shut down for upgrades.

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As part of the Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE) efforts to improve security vulnerabilities along the U.S./Canadian border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) conducted a field test at USBP Havre Sector, held in Sweetgrass, Montana, in August.

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