Just as methodical programs to improve emergency communications interoperability are building up speed, new technologies threaten to derail the entire effort. Emergency responders find that new mobile ...

CHICAGO - National Conference on Emergency Communications attendees interested in grants to fund local programs heard about recent changes to the program during a Thursday session titled "Show Me the ...

House subcommittee leaders say more is needed to make emergency communications devices interoperable; they and other officials say FEMA should stay in DHS. Congress DHS FEMA Procurement State and ...

COMCARE, the Emergency Interoperable Consortium (EIC), and the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) announced the successful trial of new emergency data communications standards ...

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has rescheduled its public forum to discuss creation of an “emergency response interoperability center” for public ...

Cal OES engines prepositioned, and now responding, to the multiple fires impacting Southern California. (Photo: California Governor's Office of Emergency Services via X) In 2007, I wrote in Homeland ...

Democrats who will assume leadership roles on homeland security when the new Congress convenes in January are questioning Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s recently stated goal for having ...