MCP In the News: Coronavirus is a Wake Up Call. Are You Listening?
This article, authored by MCP's Richard Gaston and Glenn Bischoff, originally appeared American City & County on March 30, 2020.
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With 381 assessments across the public sector using our proprietary MAPS methodology, our industry experts have compiled and analyzed assessment data in a range of considerations. Learn more about the state of the industry today.
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With 381 assessments across the public sector using our proprietary MAPS methodology, our industry experts have compiled and analyzed assessment data in a range of considerations. Learn more about the state of the industry today.
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With more than 300 assessments across the public sector using our proprietary MAPS methodology, our industry experts have compiled and analyzed assessment data in a range of considerations. Learn more about the state of the industry today.
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Mission Critical Partners offers complimentary, unlimited, and customized grant funding assistance to help our clients find applicable grants and secure funding to achieve their goals.
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This article, authored by MCP's Richard Gaston and Glenn Bischoff, originally appeared American City & County on March 30, 2020.
An article recently posted by Government Technology, discusses how a group of local governments and search engine giant Google have partnered up to create National 311 Day.
STATE COLLEGE, PA (January 7, 2020) — Mission Critical Partners (MCP), a leading public safety consulting and information technology (IT) support services firm, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Black & Veatch’s Public Safety (BVPS) consulting division. With BVPS—a unit of Black & Veatch’s Connected Communities business—MCP strengthens its capabilities to design and deploy reliable, advanced radio and wireless broadband systems targeting the public safety sector.
MCP's Glenn Bischoff recently contributed an article on the FCC's proposal to create a three-digit number—988—for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. This proposed three-digit number could improve call volumes in the nation's already overburdened 911 centers and help improve emergency response.
The counties of Venango, Lawrence, Butler and Mercer, all located within Southwestern PA, all had computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems that had reached end of life and needed replacement. In spite of three of the counties sharing a CAD system vendor, all four counties had standalone systems and were unable to forward essential CAD data when they transferred calls to each other.
Read Government Technology's article that discusses how the Nebraska Public Service Commission and Mission Critical Partners are addressing key obstacles to the rollout of statewide next-generation 911.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (April 9, 2019)—A regional computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system implemented by four counties in western Pennsylvania and supported by Mission Critical Partners (MCP) recently received one of the prestigious 2019 Governor’s Awards for Local Government Excellence in the category of information technology.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (October 26, 2018)—Charleston County Consolidated 911 Center, Mission Critical Partners (MCP), RapidSOS and RapidDeploy today announced the results from a pilot project completed in September that tested the use of social media data in emergency response.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (September 14, 2018)—Mission Critical Partners (MCP), a leading consulting and lifecycle management services firm in the public safety field, today announced that they will partner with Montana State University and Gallatin County, MT, to decommission the university’s existing dispatch operations center and consolidate staff and operations into the Gallatin County 911 Communications Center to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (July 19, 2018)—Mission Critical Partners (MCP), a leading consulting and lifecycle management services firm in the public safety field, today announced that they have been selected as a partner by Charles County, MD, to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the combined career and volunteer fire, rescue and emergency medical services (EMS) system in place in the County.
Topics: Industry News, Public Safety, Consulting
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (July 10, 2018)—Mission Critical Partners (MCP), a leading consulting and lifecycle management services firm in the public safety field, has been named a Top 20 telecommunications design firm in Engineering News-Record’s annual sourcebook ranking, which recognizes the largest firms providing telecommunications design, consulting and engineering services in the United States.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 18, 2018) — Today Mission Critical Partners (MCP), a leading consulting and lifecycle management services firm in the public safety systems and operations field, announced a new program to integrate rich data into PSAPs as well as a collaboration with RapidSOS and a new social media pilot program in the Charleston County (S.C.) Consolidated 911 Center.
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