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FirstNet Key to Improving Safety at Schools and Hospitals

During an emergency, school, university and hospital security and public safety support personnel, as well as staff and administrators, may be called on to support local first responders. FirstNet enables better communications among all of these individuals.

A panel of public safety experts presents to an audience at PSCR’s 2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholders meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

PSCR 2019 covers ‘what’s next’ for public safety tech

The FirstNet Authority participated in PSCR 2019 to engage with stakeholders and learned about what’s next for public safety communications. PSCR’s annual meeting includes talks or demos on standards, deployables, data sharing, security, the Internet of Things, and more.
Photo of a group of public safety officials meeting with the FirstNet Authority in New Hampshire with a graphic overlay that reads New Hampshire Roadmap Engagement.

FirstNet Powers Forward with Focused Public Safety Engagements

Recently, the New Hampshire Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (SIEC) hosted the FirstNet Authority for a focused engagement session on the Roadmap.

A room full of attendees at the June 2019 3GPP meetings listen and take notes on laptops as a panel of four speakers at the front give a presentation.

Newport Beach, CA, 3GPP Plenary Meetings Recap

The June 2019 quarterly Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) meetings in Newport Beach, CA addressed standards in several areas related to public safety broadband communications and FirstNet. The major topic across the 3GPP plenary meetings was planning for 3GPP Release 17 (R17).

Three images: In the first, FirstNet Authority Board Chair Edward Horowitz delivers a speech. In the second, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and Phoenix Fire Department Assistant Chief Scott Walker are seated at a table. The third shows a large crowd of public safety officials with a table of Phoenix public safety leaders seated at the front of the room. Overlaid is a graphic representation of a network.

Blazing a Path Forward to Advance, Grow FirstNet

At the Public Safety Roadmap Summit, FirstNet Authority staff met with nearly 100 stakeholders from across the nation to collect their feedback to inform a Roadmap for the network.