The federal government's National 911 Program and Mission Critical Partners are assessing which jurisdictions need help with their geospatial data technology.
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leave a meeting with House Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on Capitol Hill on Oct. 28 to try and secure a vote on the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill and discuss his multi-trillion social policy spending bill. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
The $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act would make additional investments in advanced emergency-communications technology and state and local cyber efforts.
NENA's Brandon Abley says that although the next generation of 911 will be more complex, its distributed nature will make it hard for bad actors to take…