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Six icons representing the Roadmap domains connected by a line over an image of two FirstNet Authority staff speaking to an audience of law enforcement and fire services representatives.

The FirstNet Authority has always relied on input and feedback from public safety, and with the release of the Roadmap, the FirstNet Authority is continuing this engagement with stakeholders in a new, targeted manner. David Buchanan, FirstNet Authority Executive Director of Public Safety, describes this new approach and how it will help inform the evolution and improvement of the network.

Missouri Field Operations Guide cover with Missouri state outline and Missouri state seal overlaid.

As mobile broadband communications become increasingly embedded in public safety operations, states are updating policy and process documents to account for this new way of communicating. The Missouri Department of Public Safety updated the Missouri Field Operations Guide, a statewide reference tool that outlines established and trusted interoperable communications solutions for first responders, to include FirstNet.

Eleven representatives who broke ground at a cell tower on the Red Cliff reservation stand in front of an excavator.
The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s in Wisconsin was the first tribe to participate in in-depth discussions with the FirstNet Authority, and they were the first to sign an agreement with AT&T to build a new cell tower on tribal land. This buildout will help both the first responders supporting the Red Cliff Band and the residents who live there.
“IACP” under an outline of the Chicago skyline. “Join the FirstNet Authority at IACP 2019, Chicago, Illinois | October 26-29”

Fall is here and that means International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference and Exposition is near!

APCO_repost: A man sits surrounded by rows of monitors set up to serve as a mobile command center for Fulton County.

When Super Bowl LIII came to Atlanta, the Fulton County E9-1-1 Center used FirstNet to support the backup center.