Homeland Security Today

Interoperability 2.0: Governance, Standard Operating Procedures, and Training in the Age of Emerging Technologies

Cal OES engines prepositioned, and now responding, to the multiple fires impacting Southern California. (Photo: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services via X) In 2007, I wrote in Homeland ...
Security

Minnesota selects MCP to develop next generation 911 migration and cybersecurity plan

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (June 15, 2023) — The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services and the Department of Public Safety Emergency Communication Networks (ECN) division are revisiting ...
Homeland Security Today

Emergency Communications, Public Alerts, Warnings Legislation Passed Out of House HS Committee

Legislation that would improve interoperable communications for first responders has been passed by the House Committee on Homeland Security. Introduced by Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ), the State ...
Officer

State of Minnesota Selects Mission Critical Partners to Develop Next Generation 911 Migration and Cybersecurity Plan for Modernizing Public Safety Communications

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (June 15, 2023) — The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services and the Department of Public Safety Emergency Communication Networks (ECN) division are revisiting ...
Firehouse

Developing a National Emergency Communications Plan

The Department of Homeland Security Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) released the first ever National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) on July 31, 2008. This plan is and will continue to ...