NGA Partners With NextNav to Bring Vertical Location to the NG9-1-1 Community – Yahoo Finance
MCLEAN, Va. and BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NGA 911, LLC (NGA), the source for complete, customizable and reliable NG9-1-1 solutions, today partnered with NextNav, a leader in next generation GPS, to provide actionable vertical location to its ever-growing public safety client base.
Using the NGA-powered NGCS ESInet, agencies gain greater situational awareness and benefit from a common picture of Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs) in a single framework. Now, NGA’s clients will receive the most accurate vertical location data, provided by NextNav Pinnacle and delivered across the geospatially-powered ESInet domain. The result: NGA will be positioned to natively route floor-level vertical location data of incoming requests for service across its ecosystem and display the location in 2D and 3D formats. In turn, First Responders gain the confidence that they – and those they’re dispatched to serve – will remain protected in emergency response instances…
Intrado Announces Free Mapping Service with Native Support for Enhanced Emergency Data on iPhone to Reduce Response Times
ISLANDIA, N.Y., March 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Intrado Corporation (“Intrado” or the “Company”), a global leader in technology-enabled services, today announced the release of Spatial Insight, a map-based interface that delivers more accurate handset location information for wireless emergency calls using Apple’s Enhanced Emergency Data (“EED”), while also simplifying the Public Safety Answering Points (“PSAP”) workflow.
Intrado will make Spatial Insight and Apple EED available to all U.S. and Canadian PSAPs at no cost, upon request when interested PSAPs indicate they are prepared to receive it. Enhanced Emergency Data uses Apple’s Hybridized Emergency Location technology to make precise, high-integrity location data available to 911 centers when users make emergency calls… READ MORE
Airgain® Receives Innovation Award From Public Safety Broadband Technology Association
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Airgain, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRG), a leading provider of advanced wireless connectivity technologies and systems used to enable high performance networking across a broad range of devices and markets, today announced that it has been awarded the Andrew Seybold Award for Technology Innovation by the Public Safety Broadband Technology Association (PSBTA). The award was announced at the 10-Year Anniversary Celebration for FirstNet®, hosted by the PSBTA, the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA), and All Things FirstNet. FirstNet® is the only nationwide wireless broadband communications network dedicated to America’s first responders and public safety community. It was created through legislation signed in 2012 by President Barack Obama and built out through a public-private partnership between the First Responder Network Authority and AT&T…
Zetron to Address How LMR Companies Are Embracing Public Safety Broadband at IWCE
Zetron, a global leader in integrated mission critical communications technology, today announced that Paul Moskowitz, Vice President, and John Martyn, Senior Product Manager, will present at IWCE 2021: Connecting Critical Communications, taking place September 27-30 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Zetron’s Moskowitz and Martyn will speak in a session titled “How LMR Companies are Embracing LTE / Public Safety Broadband” on Monday, September 27 at 10:15 a.m. PT at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The IWCE Power Session will examine how LMR (land mobile radio) systems are integral to public safety, and how users’ LMR systems can be enhanced with the integration of LTE. During the session, municipal and government leaders will learn how LMR providers are embracing public safety broadband…
APCO International Releases 6th Edition of Communications Training Officer Course
Alexandria, Va. – The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International has recently launched an update to the APCO Communications Training Officer (CTO) course. This course provides comprehensive training to experienced telecommunicators on the roles and responsibilities of CTOs in running an agency’s one-on-one training program. Previous editions of the CTO program have been implemented in hundreds of agencies nationwide. Two versions of the updated course are available: CTO 6th Edition and CTO 6th Edition Instructor. Delivery begins in January 2022, and both are now open for registration…
