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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

Women in Public Safety are More Valued, but There is Still Work to Do

In this installment in our Women in Public Safety series, MCP Insights chats with Dana Wahlberg, director of ...
March 20, 2020
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MCP Celebrates National Women's History Month

Public safety, like so many other sectors, has been historically male dominated. However, just as the ...
March 16, 2020