The FirstNet Core serves as the brain and the nervous system of a network, enabling critical network functions like priority, preemption, and future mission critical services. In this blog, FirstNet Authority core experts discuss how the FirstNet Core was originally designed to meet public safety’s needs and how it will continue to evolve through the FirstNet Authority Roadmap priorities and initiatives.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon uses FirstNet on cell phones and mobile data computers to better protect a community of 600,000 people spread out in mostly rural areas.

Emergency Management professionals across the country are using FirstNet for many aspects of emergency planning and response, including in emergency operation centers, for incident management teams, in exercises and drills, and with deployables.

This week marks some major milestones in the history of public safety’s nationwide broadband network.