The emergence of COVID-19 has elevated pressure on states and countries that have not yet initiated next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) deployments to expedite rollouts, according to market research firm Frost & Sullivan. The possibility of federal funding for NG 9-1-1 tied to coronavirus rescue legislation, which is expected to emphasize infrastructure projects, has the potential to dramatically boost market growth.

The NG9-1-1 Interoperability Oversight Commission (NIOC) announced a request for proposals (RFP) award to tech companies Eonti and DigiCert to operate the Public-Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Credentialing Agency (PCA). This is a key element in building greater trust and interoperability in next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) systems, said the National Emergency Number Association (NENA).

AT&T responded to questions about its comments filed in response to the FCC’s fifth notice of proposed rulemaking in the wireless location accuracy proceeding and its plans to implement technologies to meet the Z-axis benchmarks during an April 20 meeting with FCC officials.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) rescheduled the NENA 2020 Conference & Expo, previously planned for June 13 – 18, to Sept. 24 – 29 in Long Beach, California.

Tyler Technologies announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31. Total revenues were $276.5 million, up 11.9% from $247.1 million for the first quarter of 2019. Organic revenue growth was 6.4%.

The National 911 Program released the “NG911 Roadmap,” a collaborative effort between the program and 9-1-1 stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. It focuses on what needs to be done at the national level to achieve a nationwide next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) system of systems.

Norwegian public-safety agencies completed a virtual site acceptance test of new control room technologies. Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB) collaborated with public-safety agencies and suppliers on the acceptance.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) announced that Laurie Anderson of the Charlotte County (Florida) Sheriff's Office, Cassie Lowery of Rutherford County (Tennessee) Emergency Communications, Bruce Romero of the Arapahoe County (Colorado) E9-1-1 Emergency Communications Service Authority and Karin Marquez of RapidSOS were elected by the organizations’ membership to serve on its board of directors and help lead the association’s mission to improve 9-1-1 through research, standards development, training, education, outreach and advocacy.

The FCC is seeking comment on the implementation of new data fields for covered 9-1-1 service providers that it will add to the Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) and 9-1-1 Reliability Certification System, respectively, to improve the commission’s ability to assess 9-1-1 reliability.

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, awarded Federal Engineering a contract to conduct and prepare a multiagency emergency communications/operations consolidation and collocation study.