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2019 NIST PSCR Drone Survey - at this link http://view.updates.nist.gov/?qs=1f8abd5570d7791b98147c799790b57221272b3d15c9c798fce3bac981106d90018c232a22c7e364a627d57414573bf4c68c8f5c41356c226b30a000c7964ab9e4596c570c03fb13442fd084a52ff686 … iCERT Members will remember the exciting drone presentation from our most recent Members' Meeting.

PSCR is launching the 2019 NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program - Mission Critical Voice Test Equipment funding opportunity, with a total budgeted federal funding amount of $12M. Details - https://www.nist.gov/communications-technology-laboratory/pscr/psiap-mcv-test-equipment?utm_medium=email&utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_campaign=

iCERT represented by Winbourne Consulting will appear on a panel at the Kenya Emergency Communication Reverse Trade Mission - May 14, 2019- in D.C. More info- https://www.tuataragroup.com/kenya-emergency-communications-rtm Background - The visit occurs as the Government of Kenya seeks to upgrade the country’s emergency communications systems and improve responses to natural disasters in remote areas. In 2018, several areas throughout Kenya, including Nairobi, experienced severe flooding, displacing households, damaging roads and bridges, preventing or limiting humanitarian access to many of the affected areas, cutting off people’s access to markets in multiple locations, displacing at least 244,407 people (45,219 households) and causing more than 80 deaths. The country struggles to provide its citizens with basic emergency services, leaving much of its population without access to timely and often life-saving assistance. The Government of Kenya (GoK), through the National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) within the Ministry of Interior, has been working to address shortfalls in its emergency management response systems. GoK plans to invest in a number of projects to upgrade its emergency management systems to improve responsiveness to national disasters and emergencies including monitoring, coordinating, and mobilizing resources to respond to disasters. The GoK is also prioritizing the development and procurement of additional emergency communications systems which use technology to coordinate efforts between multiple agencies such as police, fire, health, and public utilities. Tuatara Group is organizing the Reverse Trade Mission on behalf of USTDA. For more information about meeting with the delegation or attending the business briefing, contact ​ Pamela Peseux Email: projectteam@tuataragroup.com 301.335.1725

5/6/19 After an extensive evaluation, iCERT chose leading web design firm, Maxburst, to create a new website for iCERT. The new site includes more news and information, iCERT Tweets, News Archives, and a Members Only section.

iCERT Members are encouraged to review the 911 SAVES Act - it would update the professional status of public safety telecommunicators Bill Text - https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1629/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22911%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=2 APCO Information https://www.apcointl.org/government-relations/take-action/ NENA Information https://www.nena.org/news/news.asp?id=441104&hhSearchTerms=%22SAVES+and+Act%22

Monday, April 15th, 2019 3:00PM–6:00PMAWS Loft, 350 W. Broadway, New York, NY EXPERIENCE the Future of Public Safety Technology - Available for your Agency Today We've teamed up with AWS, Verizon and industry partners to showcase the next generation of technology for 911, Police, Fire, and EMS. Technology that can make our first responders more effective and our communities safer. Solutions that can save lives and agency resources. Join us to demo the technology of the future, that's ready for your agency now. See full schedule at https://www.responderxlabs.com/live19/

One of New Zealand's Best Public Safety Companies Joins iCERT

Carbyne joins iCERT

Washington, D.C., April 29, 2019 — The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (“iCERT”) announced the election of Amazon Web Services to its distinguished Board of Directors. iCERT’s Board is listed at https://www.theindustrycouncil.org/icert-members-1 AWS is dedicated to building programs and services suitable for use by the justice and public safety community. Whether in law enforcement, emergency management and response, corrections, or courts, AWS has the capability and resources to address this community's unique IT needs. AWS and its network of innovative partners provide data-driven policing solutions to solve mission-critical issues and help your agency succeed. Since its founding in 2005, iCERT remains the exclusive provider-only trade association championing commercial response technology organizations. “Each iCERT Board Member offers unique technology capabilities to advance public safety, just like the game-changer that is - AWS,” said Kim Robert Scovill, the Industry Council’s Executive Director. “Establishing, maintaining, and growing relationships among key technology company leaders—the members of iCERT—is an important element of iCERT’s vision. We look forward to AWS’s leadership in our mission to advocate for more new funding and introduction of the newest and best technologies in the public safety sector for first responders and the public.” iCERT improves the public safety ecosystem through continuous new funding advocacy, ensuring that the needs and views of commercial technology providers are recognized and accommodated by all levels of government, driving continuous technology improvements, education, and helping our members reach their organic and marketplace growth objectives. iCERT continues to strengthen its representation of commercial public safety companies, wireless carriers, and related organizations on public policy issues impacting emergency response technologies via cutting-edge technology industry leaders such as AWS winning election to its Board. _______________________________ About Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Justice and Public Safety AWS is dedicated to building programs and services suitable for use by the Justice and Public Safety community. Whether in law enforcement, emergency management, corrections or courts, AWS has the capability and resources to address this community's unique IT needs and AWS meets the needs of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) standard. From body-worn camera solutions to architecting a CJIS secure environment, AWS can help you tackle public safety data needs at every stage of the journey to the cloud. By combining the secure and flexible AWS infrastructure with the breadth of our specialized partner solutions, we are confident we can help our customers across the industry succeed in their missions. To learn how AWS and its partners are helping agencies reduce data costs, improve access, and focus on their missions, download the e-book now, and contact AWS at https://pages.awscloud.com/Public-Sector-Contact-Us.html . About Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (“iCERT”) is the voice of commercial enterprises in the field of critical communications and emergency response technologies.  iCERT plays an important role in addressing public policy issues impacting funding, regulation, and impact of vendors in the emergency calling, communications and response ecosystem.  iCERT members understand that business leaders’ expertise can assist public policymakers and agency professionals as they address complex choices regarding advanced communications technology alternatives. Find out more at www.theindustrycouncil.org. iCERT’s Mission iCERT; 1) advocates for more and new public safety funding, 2) petitions all levels of government to insure that the needs and views of commercial technology providers be recognized and accommodated, 3) helps to grow members’ organic revenue, partnerships, and total market share with exclusive and unique iCERT business-to-business internal opportunities, 4) promotes understanding and adoption of advanced technologies in all public safety sectors - NG9-1-1, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Location Technologies, Communications Networks, CAD, Cloud-Based Systems, LTE, LMR, Recording, Dispatch, and Cybersecurity (to name a few); and 5) helps ensure that issues that unfairly burden or impede the introduction of new public safety / response technologies to the marketplace are explained and accommodated before decisions are made by federal, state, and local regulators.

iCERT first "member-to-member" business development meeting was an unqualified success. April 2-3, 2019 Longmont, CO West Safety (now Intrado) graciously hosted our members meeting in Longmont, CO. Guest speakers from NIST, FirstNet, Verizon, Amazon, the Alarm Industry, Smart Cities, and Public Safety Drones augmented organic and marketplace business discussions. iCERT help one-to-one networking events and a Board and General Meeting. Great Event! Agenda: NIST/PSCR Tech to Protect Coding Challenge Briefing - Craig Connelly, Prize and Challenge Specialist, NIST/PSCR Public Safety Broadband Update - Jeff Bratcher, FirstNet’s CTO/COO Colorado Smart Cities Alliance – Jake Rishavy, Denver South Economic Development Partnership Public Safety Broadband Update – NEW - Christian Bohrer, Verizon Security Industry / Public Safety - Update – John Mack, Imperial Capital Drones and Public Safety – Kevin McGinnis, National Association of State EMS Officials Lunch / Networking DUAL – SIMULTANEOUS EVENTS 1) VOLUNTARY Member Company Presentations 2) Private one-to-one meetings by companies in 4-meeting rooms

NENA News Release 2/14/19 PSAP Best Practices Guidance for non-carrier supplemental location data NENA Releases Guidance on Handling Non-Carrier Location Data, Improving 9-1-1’s Ability to Find Wireless Callers America’s 9-1-1 community is taking another step toward better wireless-device location capability by releasing guidance on how 9-1-1 call centers should handle location data from multiple sources. The Recommended Best Practices for Supplemental 9-1-1 Location Data are being released today by NENA: The 9-1-1 Association, after months of collaboration with the National Association of State 911 Administrators (NASNA), the Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT), and the National 9-1-1 Program Office. Designed for use by both Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) and supplemental location data providers such as mobile applications, third-party location providers, telematics, and others, the guidance will help 9-1-1 systems to safely and efficiently incorporate data that’s in addition to what is required from telecom service providers. This document was developed by the National Emergency Number Association (NENA),1 the National Association of State 911 Administrators (NASNA),2 and the Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT), in cooperation with the National 9-1-1 Program. It is designed to establish guidance on the potential use by the nation’s Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) of 9-1-1 location data provided outside of the traditional process used by wireless carriers. The potential use of such “supplemental 9-1-1 location data” in addition to data provided by the carriers may assist in locating 9-1-1 callers quickly and accurately. This document describes recommended best practices for how such data should be provided to and used by PSAPs. This document describes how supplemental 9-1-1 location data is provided to PSAPs, compares and contrasts those processes to the way location information is provided in conjunction with traditional 9-1-1 call processes, and recommends a set of best practices that are designed to guide the development, delivery, and use of such data.

Multimedia Recording Solution Provider Joins Other Industry Leaders as iCERT Member Washington, D.C., December 4, 2018 — The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (“iCERT”) announced the addition of Exacom, the leader in distributed multimedia distributed recording solutions, to iCERT’s select group of members. “Logging recorder companies typically only develop or improve their solutions in reaction to what’s happening in the market, rather than becoming a driving force for change,” said Exacom President and CEO Al Brisard. “But now more than ever, recorders play a key role in the mission critical ecosystem of growing security concerns and pressure to validate after the fact. We take this responsibility seriously, so we are excited to join iCERT as the only member dedicated solely to distributed multimedia recording. We look forward to driving stronger partnerships and market-wide technologies, which will ultimately create better communications solutions for our customers.” Over the last 30 years, Exacom has been at the forefront of technology and standards direction. Their multimedia recording solutions have been proven in multiple market segments including public safety. Their unique distributed recording environment, made possible through their mix of hardware and software solutions combined with flexible deployment configurations, allows for interactions to be captured wherever and whenever they take place. “Each new iCERT member offers a unique perspective on using technology to advance public safety,” said Kim Robert Scovill, the Industry Council’s new Executive Director. “Establishing, maintaining, and growing relationships among key technology company leaders—the members of iCERT—is an important element of iCERT’s vision. We look forward to Exacom’s participation in our mission to leverage new technologies in the public safety sector.”