NENA on Next-Gen 911

After nearly six years of work, NENA announced it has formed a joint Technical and Operations working group to focus on the development of a next-generation 911 system and a PSAP transition plan. According to the group, the effort, “will provide a detailed roadmap of present and future activities toward the transition to a NG9-1-1 system and the subsequent operation of that system.” The project will work towards converting the nation’s separate, locally-operated 911 networks into an inter-networked, IP based NG9-1-1, “with greatly expanded capabilities for emergency call/message handling, multimedia emergency communications, and data acquisition, management and sharing.” In their press release, NENA also included a timeline of their efforts.