MCP Insights
Life at MCP: Meet Mark Athearn
One never knows when the proverbial light bulb is going to turn on. For Mark Athearn, who recently was ...
May 14, 2020
Podcast Series Tackles COVID-19-Generated Telecommunicator Stress
Without question, the role of telecommunicator in an emergency communications center (ECC) is one of the most ...
May 12, 2020
One Way To Keep Public Safety Technology Procurements from Derailing
Emergency communications centers need a lot of gear. They need wireless communications systems to communicate ...
May 5, 2020
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Hackers Still Are Exploiting COVID-19
As part of our effort to inform our clients about potential and serious cybersecurity issues, MCP provides ...
April 28, 2020
The Case for Private Long-Term Evolution Networks for Power Utilities
Next month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to vote on reconfiguring the 900 MHz band ...
April 23, 2020
Why COOP/DR Plans Need to Consider GIS Data Maintenance
A couple of weeks ago, MCP’s Richard Gaston posted about why it is critically important for every ...
April 17, 2020
Public Safety Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical VMware Bug
As part of our effort to inform our clients about potential and serious cybersecurity issues, MCP provides ...
April 16, 2020
Assessing Progress Towards Next Generation 911 is No Easy Task
In 2015, while beginning work on the Next Generation 911 (NG911) Nationwide Cost Study for the National 911 ...
April 10, 2020
Pandemic Underscores Importance of Public Safety Continuity-Of-Operations and Disaster-Recovery Plans
COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, pandemic is grabbing a lot of attention right now, partly because we don’t see ...
March 31, 2020
Women in Public Safety Communications Have Come a Long Way
In this installment in our Women in Public Safety series in honor of Women's History Month celebrated in ...
March 27, 2020