MCP Insights

Recent Outages Reinforce the Need for 911 Center Diversity

How many botched light-pole installations does it take to cause 911 service interruptions across multiple ...
April 25, 2024

Key Takeaways from IWCE - Part 1

MCP subject-matter experts blanketed the recently held International Wireless Communications Expositions ...
April 24, 2024

Telecommunicators Week Is Great, But It’s Only a Start

As a former 911 telecommunicator, this week, National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, always has been ...
April 18, 2024

MCP Celebrates 15 Years: A Lesson in the Importance of Persistence

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Looking back to the beginning, ...
April 12, 2024

Grant Alert: BJS FY24 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Supplemental Funding under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced the continuation of the National Criminal History ...
April 11, 2024

Grant Alert: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) FY24 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced the continuation of the National Criminal History ...
March 26, 2024

Updated NIST Cybersecurity Framework Places Greater Emphasis on Governance

The Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) developed in 2014 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
March 25, 2024

Return on Mitigation Is a Concept Worth Understanding

Everyone seems to understand intuitively that cyberattacks are bad news, especially in the public sector. A ...
March 4, 2024

Commercial Wireless Outages Will Keep Happening — Here’s How to Prepare

Last week, AT&T’s commercial wireless network suffered an outage that affected tens of thousands of ...
February 26, 2024

Key Takeaways from NENA’s NG9-1-1 Standards & Best Practices Conference

Recently, Mission Critical Partners’ subject-matter experts Bonnie Maney, Sherri Griffith Powell, and Gordon ...
February 16, 2024

As Air Travel Increases, So Must Cybersecurity Vigilance

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) declared an end to the COVID-19 pandemic last May. The best evidence ...
February 13, 2024

A Few Words of Praise and Gratitude for Joe Wheeler

Next February, Mission Critical Partners celebrates the 15th anniversary of its founding. From the beginning, ...
December 20, 2023