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Registration Open for Interoperable Communications Conference

During a disaster or emergency everyone involved in the response must know how to use the latest technology to communicate. There is no better place to sharpen your skills than the sixth annual 2015 Minnesota Public Safety Interoperable Communications Conference in St. Cloud. The conference will be held from Monday, April 27 through Wednesday, April 29 and will be packed with valuable information. Registration is now open. Register here.

GIS Project Kick Off

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Achieving Next Generation 911 service requires help from across Minnesota. On April 9, the Minn. Dept. of Public Safety division of Emergency Communications (DPS/ECN) kicked off the latest exciting project to make NG 911 a reality. Statewide 911 Program Coordinator Dana Wahlberg and GIS Project Manager Adam Iten (pictured) met with emergency communications professionals in the NE region to engage them in the project. It will have Public Safety Answering Points, federal, tribal, state, regional and local jurisdictions collecting and aggregating geospatial data. This data is a step up from the data currently collected tohelp 911 call takers determine from where a 911 call is being made. It will include community boundaries, railraods, cell towers, schools, churches and landmarks.​

ECN's Annual Report 2014

ecn-annual-report-image.jpgNotable Achievements of 2014 include:

  • Migration to the Next Generation 911 Emergency Service IP Network (ESInet) is complete. This is the conversion of the 911 network from an analog voice network to a high-speed voice and data network.

  • Minnesota’s Allied Radio Matrix for Emergency Response (ARMER) program continues to be a model for the nation. Ninety-seven percent of the ARMER backbone is on the air. Seventy-eight of 87 counties have migrated to ARMER, with seven of the remaining counties exploring the feasibility of joining ARMER in the near future.
  • Advancing the deliverables for the FirstNet consultationproject (State and Local Implementation GrantProgram, or SLIGP,) will promote the implementationof a public safety wireless broadband network.

Read the full report here. 
Minnesota Public Safety Interoperable Communications Conference