NGA center aims to improve states’ public safety interoperable communications
The Washington-based National Governors Association‘s Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) has chosen six states to participate in its “Public Safety Interoperability Communications Policy Academy: Focus on Governance.” Interdisciplinary teams from Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, New York and Washington will attend the nine-month academy to improve each states’ governance structures for overseeing statewide communications interoperability planning and implementation.
“Emergency response officials consistently cite the ability to communicate with other first responders as critical to being able to better protect the public in the face of any emergency,” NGA Center Director John Thomasian said in a statement. “This policy academy will provide states the opportunity to address the coordination needed among key stakeholders to build efficient, effective interoperable communications.”
View more information on the academy and NGA’s work to improve interoperable communications.