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 Ne... Read more
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 g... Read more
CenturyLink has unveiled an emergency call handling service that will allow public safety customers to transfer their call management offerings to the cloud. Read more
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 initiat... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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. Read more
AT&T has developed updates and new offerings to support the First Responder Network Authority’s emergency response operations. Read more
DynCorp International has provided a $10K donation to the Air Force Aid Society to support flood emergency response efforts at the Offutt AF Base. Read more
Avaya has introduced a location reporting technology designed to help first responders receive data about the position of a caller’s device in the event of a critical situation. Read more
Chris Sambar, a senior vice president at AT&T, has said the company’s efforts to fulfill communications support requests from FirstNet subscribers during 2018 attracted more public safet... Read more
Boeing and SparkCognition intend to form a new joint venture that will develop software platforms designed to integrate autonomous cargo vehicles and other unmanned aircraft systems into the... Read more
Chicago, Ill.-based telecommunications firm Motorola has selected Aviat Networks to support the former’s statewide emergency response network modernization effort in Florida. Milpitas,... Read more
Samsung Electronics America has unveiled a line of computer-aided dispatch applications for wearable devices to help first responders stay connected during emergency missions. The company sa... Read more
In-Q-Tel’s Dan Hanfling, Tara O’Toole: Gov’t Must Invest in Next-Gen Emergency Response Tech
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 failin... Read more