First Responder

Homeland Security Seeks to Improve First Responder Vehicle Tech

A new contract could enhance communications between first responders.

  • By Frank Konkel

NIST, Commerce Launch Emergency Response Training Center with Virtual Reality

The Public Safety Immersive Test Center will combine virtual reality technologies with more tactile simulations to improve emergency responses.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

GAO Highlights Problems with Speeding Disaster Help to Disadvantaged Areas

Disaster response is uneven across the country.

  • By Patience Wait

DIU’s First 5G Experiment Could Be a Game-Changer for First Responders

The Defense Innovation Unit is prototyping portable—and wearable—networking tools with the California National Guard so they can connect anywhere.

  • By Brandi Vincent

DHS Wants Wearables to Track Employee Health at Work and at Home

The biometric tech will be used to help employees manage physical and mental health in high-stress mission areas.

  • By Aaron Boyd
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VA Can’t Locate $700K Worth of Satellite Phones

For decades, Veterans Affairs employees have had trouble finding emergency communications devices when they’re needed most.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Inside Pacific Northwest National Lab’s 5G Innovation Studio

Federal officials are exploring what the next generation of wireless capabilities has to offer.

  • By Brandi Vincent

FEMA and Other Federal Agencies Respond to Storm Henri 

The emergency assistance agency is also helping Tennessee following the massive floods. 

  • By Courtney Bublé

DHS Tech Directorate Sets Goals to Guide Risk-Aware Artificial Intelligence Use

It’s meant to complement the department’s broader enterprise strategy and could prove helpful to other agencies.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Wildfires Are So Dangerous Now that the National Guard Prepares for Them Like Hurricanes

For West Coast units, there’s no wildfire season anymore. ‘It’s really a fire year now,’ top general says.

  • By Tara Copp

Agencies Ramp Up COVID-19 Deployments Again to Address Outbreaks

White House launches “surge response teams” just as agencies were starting to bring back federal personnel.

  • By Eric Katz

An Expert on Search and Rescue Robots Explains the Technologies Used in Disasters Like the Florida Condo Collapse

Such tech can be useful tools but can be cost-prohibitive for public safety agencies.

  • By Robin R. Murphy, The Conversation

Federal Agencies Respond to the Severe Arctic Blast

Millions are without power due to the extreme freeze.

  • By Brandi Vincent

FBI, FirstNet Move Forward with $92 Million Communications Contract

Transition to the AT&T-built platform will soon kick off. 

  • By Brandi Vincent
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How TikTok Is Upending Workplace Social Media Policies – and Giving Us Rebel Nurses and Dancing Cops

Even the most innocuous videos likely violate standard corporate social media policies.

  • By Elizabeth C. Tippett, The Conversation

Google Offering Near Real-Time Maps of Wildfire Boundaries

The company’s announcement comes as destructive fires are burning in a number of western states.

  • By Bill Lucia

Energy Department, Microsoft Set Up Consortium to Produce AI-Enabled Tools for First Responders

At least ten partners from across the government, industry and academia have already signed on.

  • By Brandi Vincent

E-Marketplaces in the Time of COVID-19

E-marketplaces also can direct limited, critical supplies to those who need it most.

  • By Robert A. Burton

How Peer-to-Peer Texting Could Play a Role in Disaster and Pandemic Response

RumbleUp, an app previously tapped by Republican campaigns, is now available through FirstNet.

  • By Brandi Vincent

Report: Agencies Should Turn to AI Before Disaster Strikes

But government agency-led applications have much room for improvement.

  • By Brandi Vincent

DHS Wants to Know What the Public Thinks About Using Drones During Emergencies

A forthcoming survey will ask people about their knowledge of unmanned aerial systems and how they are used, and their opinions on the ethical implications.

  • By Aaron Boyd