Mission Critical Partners announced that a recent round of testing has uncovered vulnerabilities in land mobile radio systems widely deployed by public safety agencies.

Advocates for the next generation of 911 technologies said the lack of federal funding source could generate inequity of critical services.

Baltimore's new 911 platform is enabling call-takers to more accurately locate callers and use AI to translate foreign languages on the fly.

The Federal Communications Commission created new rules standardizing how network service providers report outages affecting 911 centers.

The company said a recent outage affecting 14 states was caused by "an internal networking component that was not correctly forwarding traffic."

The transition to next-generation 911 brings cybersecurity threats not seen before, members of an FCC working group said during CISA's annual summit.

To handle 911 outages and other crises, emergency communications officials from two states said a formal "crisis communications plan" is essential.

Emergency management officials in two counties have reported software errors hampering their ability to warn the public of deadly fires.

A new report from Microsoft makes a case for why emergency management agencies should be doing more with artificial intelligence.

The mapping technology company Esri is encouraging agencies at all levels of government to share data related to pandemic response efforts on the new platform.