By Edward Parkinson, FirstNet Authority Acting CEO In our latest Annual Report to Congress, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) outlines the significant progress made in fiscal year (FY) 2018…
By Dave Buchanan, FirstNet Authority Executive Director of Public Safety Advocacy Recently, the Public Safety Advisory Committee’s (PSAC) Tribal Working Group (TWG) met in Nashville, Tennessee for its semi-annual in-person meeting. The…
By Brigadier General Welton Chase, Jr. (US Army, Ret.), FirstNet Board Member When your job is to protect our communities, nothing is more important than being connected, protected and situationally…
For the sixth consecutive year, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) has received an unmodified, or “clean,” audit opinion on its financial statements. Achievement of a clean audit opinion…
By Doug Harder, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority Last month, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) had the opportunity to join public safety leaders at Texas…
By David Faulkner, Senior Public Safety Advisor On March 27, the State of Arizona held a public safety broadband forum for first responders, public administrators, and IT support personnel to…
The local sheriff’s department shares its experience with the FirstNet dedicated public safety broadband network. by Melissa Delaney Brazos County, Texas got its first glimpse into the future in 2010….
By Lori Stone, Senior Public Safety Advisor (DC, DE, MD, VA, WV) As part of our Roadmap Engagements, the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet Authority) Public Safety Advocacy (PSA) team…
By Dave Buchanan, Executive Director of Public Safety Advocacy The latest stop along our public safety roadmap led the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) to Atlanta, Ga., last week…
By April Ward Senior Media Relations Advisor First Responder Network Authority Hattiesburg, Mississippi’s AAA Ambulance Service subscribed to FirstNet to help connect its 24-hour emergency and non-emergency medical transport service. FirstNet is…
By Richard Mirgon, Public Safety Consultant Once again we have an article in another publication claiming to differentiate between “fact” and “fiction” with an individual portraying to be a FirstNet…
By Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs, Office of Emergency Communications SOURCE: FirstNet.gov DATE: March 13, 2019 Every February, 30,000 skiers and spectators descend on northwestern Wisconsin to take part in…
By Lori Stone, Region III Lead When it comes to emergency communications in the National Capital Region, Dave Mulholland has seen it all. Originally a member of the U.S. Park…
By John Hunt, Senior Public Safety Advisor The First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet Authority) Public Safety Advocacy team traveled recently to Traverse City, MI, to participate in and present to…
By Ken Bednasz, VP Application Engineering at Telit, Americas. SOURCE: IoTforall.com DATE: February 18, 2019 The implementation of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet)—the first nationwide high-speed broadband network for America’s first responders—has…