MCP Insights
The Aging Public Safety Facility: What You Need to Consider
The building that houses a public safety answering point (PSAP), emergency operations center (EOC) or data ...
December 14, 2018
Pilot Project Offers Insight into Using Social Media Data for Emergency Response
In a recent post, MCP Insights chatted with Dr. Andrea Tapia, associate professor of information sciences and ...
December 12, 2018
[Interview] The Impact Social Media is Having on the Public Safety Community
As people change how they communicate, 911 must change too. Recently MCP Insights chatted with Dr. Andrea ...
November 21, 2018
MCP + Athena: The Leading Provider of IT Services for Public Safety
Earlier this week, we announced that Mission Critical Partners (MCP) has acquired Athena Advanced Networks, ...
November 16, 2018
MCP Helps Butler County, PA Maximize the Value of a New Radio System While Also Boosting Coverage, Capacity and Interoperability
Butler County, PA’s radio system was facing end-of-life and had begun to experience reduced reliability. As a ...
November 9, 2018
Announcing the Launch of MCP's Book, Expert Advice to Guide Your Mission-Critical Facility Project
A project to build or refurbish an emergency communications center—including a 911 center—or an emergency ...
October 26, 2018
Four Takeaways from the Next Generation 911 Cost Study Report Delivered to Congress this Week
As part of the Middle-Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-96), Congress directed the 911 ...
October 5, 2018
How to Lessen the Impact of Public Safety Vendor Consolidations
A baseball adage says that when a pitcher throws you a curveball, you hit it to the opposite field. But what ...
September 27, 2018
What’s the Future of Land Mobile Radio in a FirstNet World? [Webinar]
Nick Falgiatore, an MCP subject-matter expert from the radio and wireless team and a 2017 recipient of the ...
September 21, 2018
Stop Thinking About 'Staffing 911.' Start Thinking About Workforce Optimization.
It has never been more challenging to be a PSAP official. Longer-term considerations include implementing ...
September 18, 2018