Tag Archives: emergency response

AT&T and the National Fraternal Order of Police have entered into an agreement to conduct an educational effort aimed at promoting the benefits of implementing the First Responder Network for law enforcement activities.

Chuck Mosher, director for public sector enterprise domain architects at Red Hat, has said that open-source development can help government agencies quicken emergency response and simplify coordination.

Robert Shea, a Grant Thornton principal, told Government Matters in an interview posted Tuesday about the challenges and the need for technology in response to the coronavirus pandemic. "One of the things I think we’ve learned is that we need to be pretty practised at what flexibilities agencies need to offer to their federal and contractor workforces,” he said. “Technology is a key enabler and will need to be in place in the future.”

Amazon Web Services’ recently launched Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency initiative has helped entities like the Australian government look for technology vendors that can support their citizen welfare efforts, GCN reported Friday.

Teams comprised of Lockheed Martin and NVIDIA as well as Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center have launched efforts to use AI to help improve disaster response.

Northrop Grumman has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to conduct research into artificial intelligence for use in emergency operations and disaster response.

In-Q-Tel executives Dan Hanfling and Tara O’Toole have said that the U.S. “risks being unprepared” for catastrophic events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, epidemics and bioattacks by failing to integrate new capabilities into emergency response technologies.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 22, 2019 — The team behind FirstNet, the nationwide public safety broadband network developed by a partnership between AT&T (NYSE: T) and the First Responder Network Authority, has revealed the network supported 175 missions so far this year as it outlines a roadmap for expansion over the next five years, GovCon Wire reported Monday.

Axon has launched a charity initiative, the Axon Aid program, which seeks to help cities in the event of natural disasters by using its drone technology to provide situational awareness to government officials.

CenturyLink has unveiled an emergency call handling service that will allow public safety customers to transfer their call management offerings to the cloud.

TRX Systems has showcased its 3D tracking platform during an emergency response exercise hosted by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s SCITI Labs initiative.

AT&T and the International Association of Fire Fighters have formed an alliance to inform paramedics and firefighters about the FirstNet national public safety broadband network and its role in facilitating communications during emergency response efforts.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate to conduct a nine-month field test to evaluate the use of new technologies for public safety operations.

Joseph Goetz, a Virginia-based professional engineer and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers veteran, has been appointed senior project manager for disaster recovery services at Dewberry.

AT&T has developed updates and new offerings to support the First Responder Network Authority’s emergency response operations.