According to Brian Fontes, CEO of NENA: The 9-1-1 Association, NENA applauds the FCC's recent rulemaking improving requirements for service providers to provide timely notifications to 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) during network outages.

On September 1, the state of Pennsylvania awarded Mission Critical Partners (MCP) a contract to support the deployment of next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) service statewide.

RapidDeploy's Radius Mapping was selected by Mental Health America of Greenville County as the new statewide 9-8-8 solution for the state of South Carolina. RapidDeploy is currently deployed statewide in nine states and in hundreds of local 9-1-1 centers across the country. This is its first statewide venture into 9-8-8 centers.

The Next Generation 911 Institute (NG911 Institute) announced the results of its 2022 board of directors election.

The FCC will consider an item to improve 9-1-1 reliability at its November Open Meeting.

Rave Mobile Safety announced users of the company’s Rave Panic Button and Rave 911 Suite solutions can now significantly improve safety outcomes in facilities by uploading high quality, actionable floorplans generated by Critical Response Group (CRG). The new integration will further enhance safety efforts by giving 9-1-1 dispatchers, law enforcement, and first responders better situational awareness, which can help expedite response and improve safety outcomes.

In a letter, the Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT) urged members of Congress to pass legislation.

The FCC entered into consent degrees with five telephones carriers to settle investigation into whether the carriers failed to file 9-1-1 reliability certifications for 2021 by the deadline of October 15, 2021.

Versaterm Public Safety acquired FivePoint Solutions, a data integration solutions company for the judicial and public safety space, to strengthen its public-safety ecosystem with comprehensive data exchange capabilities that provide anytime, anywhere access to accurate, up-to-date information, enabling smarter insights, decisions, and actions.

The Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEMD) awarded a new contract to Zetron for the continued delivery and management of the statewide Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) Shared Services Program.