GeoComm, a public-safety location intelligence platform provider, announced a new partnership with NextNav, a provider of z-axis vertical positioning, to enhance floor-aware indoor mapping for E9-1-1.

The Office of EMS and the National 911 Program, housed within the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), encouraged 9-1-1 and EMS professionals to provide public-safety feedback on its annual Highway Safety Grant Program.

The National 911 Program and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) made a summary of 2021 key enacted legislation available.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in a letter offered to work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and use the next available opportunity to review the current employment classification of 9-1-1 professionals in the OMB’s Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.

The Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute selected Mission Critical Partners (MCP) to test CAD-to-CAD interoperability in a lab environment and at two pilot sites.

The city of Belleville, Ontario, Canada awarded Federal Engineering (FE) a contract for public-safety next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) consulting services.

The Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) announced today that it has trained more than 500 public-safety personnel in the state using a professional development training program developed with Mission Critical Partners (MCP).

With most CAD platforms and logging recorders, users who need to access audio regarding a specific incident must pull up the CAD report, and then do a manual search of their recorder to find related audio records. It’s easy for records to get overlooked with this method, and it requires using multiple pieces of software across multiple windows. It’s an inefficient way to pull records and can cost emergency communication centers and dispatchers valuable resources.

The Fresno Police Department is now live on Axon Dispatch, a CAD platform built on modern cloud technologies. Fresno PD benefits from Axon’s suite of innovative technology products, including TASER energy weapons, body-worn cameras, evidence management, Axon Records and now Dispatch.

Since 17 March, all smartphones sold in Europe are required to comply with Advanced Mobile Location (AML) for emergency communications. AML was standardized in ETSI TS 103 625 by the European and Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) technical committee on emergency communications (EMTEL) in December 2019. It is already helping emergency services dispatch the needed resources efficiently in Europe and worldwide.