Key Takeaway: Successful CAD and RMS implementations require continuous planning before and after procurement, with clear project charters, governance, contracts, and project management practices. Agencies that treat planning as an ongoing process are better positioned to manage integrations, mitigate risks, maintain control, and deliver systems that meet operational needs.
Key Takeaway: Modern CAD and RMS systems are evolving into integrated, cloud-enabled platforms that serve as the operational data backbone for public safety agencies, supporting interoperability, mobility, analytics, and real-time decision-making. As agencies adopt these technologies, success depends on careful planning around system integration, cloud performance, data ownership, security, and long-term scalability.
Takeaways: Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly is driving conversations across public safety. Executive leaders are being asked about AI by elected officials, governing boards, technology vendors, and their own personnel. At the same time, staffing shortages, operational burnout, increasing call volumes, and growing service expectations are creating pressure to modernize. For many leaders, AI integration in public safety systems is moving from concept to practice, raising new strategic questions about scope, timing, and governance.
This week, a new critical alert demands the immediate attention and action of the public-sector community.
Topics: Public Safety, Cybersecurity
This week, a new critical alert demands the immediate attention and action of the public-sector community.
Topics: Public Safety, Cybersecurity
We’re hearing and reading a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) these days. For that reason, we decided to explore how the technology might be used by public-safety and justice organizations during our fourth annual Conference for Advancing the Public Sector (CAPS).
A previous blog explored one of the scariest trends about cybersecurity in the public sector, which is that many organizations still do not have it on their radar screens. However, this clearly is beginning to change due to several high-profile cyberattacks that occurred in the last couple of years. More evidence of this change can be found in the fact that cybersecurity was a hot topic at this year’s NENA and APCO conferences.
Topics: Public Safety, Cybersecurity, Network Management
A recent article examined two of the scariest cybersecurity trends currently impacting public-sector organizations and their networks and systems.
One concern is the fact that public-sector organizations only recently have started to understand the severity of the cybersecurity problem.
Last week, MCP subject-matter experts blanketed the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference in Nashville. This final blog of a three-part series wraps up what they learned. Read more key takeaways in last week’s blogs Part 1and Part 2.
MCP subject-matter experts blanketed the annual Association of Public Safety Officials conference in Nashville this week to gain insights into emergency response's short- and long-term future. A blog posted on Tuesday identified a few of the key takeaways from the first two days. This blog covers days three and four.
MCP subject-matter experts are blanketing the annual Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference
Unmanned aerial vehicles, aka drones, have been slow to fulfill their potential to enhance emergency response. However, drones use has grown exponentially since 2016 to more than 5,000
Topics: Technology, Public Safety
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