9-1-1 Goes to Washington (#NENAGTW) brings you and hundreds of your fellow 9-1-1 professionals together with government leaders in our nation's capital to address today's most pressing 9-1-1 and emergency communications issues. #NENAGTW is the only event where you learn about the policy challenges facing 9-1-1 and then take immediate action to address them through dialogue with your elected and appointed officials.

#NENAGTW offers you a significant opportunity to shape the nation’s emergency communications policy agenda. In order to address the needs of today’s 9-1-1 systems while laying the regulatory and legislative groundwork for next-generation systems, you must understand today’s 9-1-1 policy landscape and take an active role in educating policymakers to shape the laws and rules of tomorrow. At #NENAGTW, you will do both. Join us for a dynamic, interactive program where you receive:

The inside information you need to shape the 9-1-1 and emergency communications agendas for the Administration and Congress;

• Critical knowledge of federal and state 9-1-1, homeland security, and emergency communications legislation, regulation, and policy initiatives; and
• An opportunity to speak directly with members of Congress, administration officials, and key staff to make your voice heard on behalf of the entire 9-1-1 community. 

Click here to register, here to book your room at our overflow hotel, and here to learn more. 

Free Webinar Tomorrow (or On-Demand): Get Ready for #NENAGTW!
Thursday, February 15 | 3PM Eastern
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The time is fast approaching for you to join us in Washington to educate legislators and policymakers about the critical issues facing 9-1-1. To make sure 9-1-1 Goes to Washington (#NENAGTW) has the biggest impact ever, NENA is offering a FREE webinar that will give you the tools you need to succeed. You’ll learn about: 

• NENA’s major talking points and legislative priorities;
• How Congress really works, including insights on the structure and function of committees and leadership offices;
• Ways to ensure effective meetings with key legislators and staff; and
• The structure and agenda for #NENAGTW.

Can't attend on the 15th? Register now and access the on-demand recording from the #NENAGTW homepage.

Members of the 9-1-1 community are invited to submit nominations for the NG9-1-1 Interoperability Oversight Commission (Commission), also known as the NIOC. This body provides independent oversight of the PSAP Credentialing Agency (PCA) and the Forest Guide, two functional elements required to be operated centrally for NG9-1-1 to work according to prevailing standards. These requirements come from specifications developed under NENA’s standards NENA Development Group (NDG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The Commission seeks individuals representing:

• The NENA Board (voting)
• Commercial providers of end-user NG9-1-1 Products (voting)
• Commercial providers of NG9-1-1 core services (voting)
• Public Safety Associations (voting)
• PSAPs/ECCs (voting)

The Commission also seeks non-voting liaisons representing:

• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (non-voting)
• United States Federal Communications Commission (non-voting)
• The Defense Information Systems Agency (non-voting)
• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (non-voting)

Members of the 9-1-1 community are invited to nominate a qualifying individual to serve on this Commission. Please send all nominations to admin@ng911ioc.org by February 29, 2024. The NENA board will confirm commission members at its March meeting. Each commissioner shall serve a 2-year term.

In submitting a nominee, please provide the following documentation (or equivalent):

• The nominee’s resume or CV
• A short statement describing the nominee’s qualifications, such as related technical expertise and/or subject domain in 9-1-1
• A short statement clarifying the rationale that the nominee represents the identified stakeholder group
• Evidence that the nominee represents the identified stakeholder group, if applicable, such as an affirmative vote of a board of directors nominating the nominee to sit on the Commission

All commissioners shall adhere to the Commission’s bylaws, which are available here.

NENA is seeking vendor participants for its 12th NG9-1-1 Industry Collaboration Event (ICE). ICE 12 testing scenarios will fall into two standards categories: End-to-End PSAP and Cybersecurity. Connecting with those working groups within NENA who are working on the standards related to these areas, we have established a working list of items for testing consideration. This year, ICE 12 will include two events:

• NG9-1-1 i3 Readiness and Preliminary Testing Mid-Year Event, tentatively slated for early Summer 2024
• Face-to-Face ICE 12 in Fall 2024

An ICE 12 Planning Committee has been formed, and vendors of all NG9-1-1 equipment and systems are encouraged to join. To join the ICE 12 Planning Committee please contact the NENA ICE Testing Coordination Manager, as soon as possible. Planning Committee registration to close March 15, 2024. 

It is with great sadness that NENA announces the passing of Vicki Pickett, the association's Education & Training Director.

Vicki was a cherished member of both the NENA team and the 9-1-1 community, especially in her home state of Colorado. Her kindness, dedication, and friendship will be remembered and missed by all who knew her.

The NENA Spoofing Mitigation Information Document describes the application of the Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (SHAKEN) caller identity spoofing mitigation framework and SIP Resource-Priority Header and Priority header signing/verification procedures to 9 1 1 calls and emergency callbacks in an end-state Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) (i.e., all-Internet Protocol [IP]) environment as well as caller identity spoofing mitigation mechanisms applicable to an all-Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and mixed TDM/IP environment, with a focus on associated operational impacts and considerations. This Information Document also describes location spoofing mitigation in an end-state NG9-1-1 environment.

Members of the Working Group can download the document and submit comments by going here and selecting Add a Comment from the Edit icon drop-down menu. All others can download the document and submit comments by going here and then selecting Add a Comment from the Document Actions icon drop-down menu. Please complete all requested data and click Save, or, if submitting multiple comments, click Save and Add Another.

If you are providing editorial comments, such as corrections to typos, grammatical errors, style/numbering errors, or incorrect references/links to documents, please document them under one comment and list the page and line number for each (ex. Page 22, Line 761: Correct moist to most). If the correction is within a table, please provide the table name and page number of the error and your recommended change.

All comments are due by February 19, 2024. You may contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns.

The NENA Demarcation Points in NG9-1-1 Information Document describes potential points of demarcation in transitional and end-state Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) architectures.

Members of the Working Group can download the document and submit comments by going here and selecting Add a Comment from the Edit icon drop-down menu. All others can download the document and submit comments by going here and then selecting Add a Comment from the Document Actions icon drop-down menu. Please complete all requested data and click Save, or, if submitting multiple comments, click Save and Add Another.

If you are providing editorial comments, such as corrections to typos, grammatical errors, style/numbering errors, or incorrect references/links to documents, please document them under one comment and list the page and line number for each (ex. Page 22, Line 761: Correct moist to most). If the correction is within a table, please provide the table name and page number of the error and your recommended change.

All comments are due by March 25, 2024. You may contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns.

A coalition of nine national organizations is calling on Congress to act swiftly to fund critically needed upgrades to America's local 9-1-1 emergency response systems.

NENA: The 9-1-1 Association and groups representing state and local governments, industry, and disabled persons issued the call to action to all Senate and House leaders as well as the Chairs and Ranking Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

In the letter, the groups reiterated their strong support for funding essential Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) upgrades by allocating a portion of the proceeds from federal spectrum auctions. 

Click here to read more. 

The National Joint TERT Initiative (NJTI) is a partnership between NENA and APCO dedicated to the promotion of Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce (TERT) programs that satisfy deployable status criteria for telcommunicator mutual aid response during disasters.

NENA invites participants who desire to support the TERT Initiative to apply to volunteer. Familiarity and experience in working with TERT programs are preferred but not required. Volunteers will assist with the important work to:

• Promote TERT nationally, including website and social media content.
• Strengthen our connections and partnerships.
• Update TERT training as necessary.
• Interface with FEMA Emergency Management Institute for hosting TERT training, specifically IS-144 (TERT Basic Awareness), IS-1200 (TERT Team Leader), and any additional NJTI training.
• Advise the NJTI, LLC co-managers on policy matters.
• Assist state coordinators with developing and maintaining initiatives in their state.
• Provide remote situational awareness support during TERT deployments.
• All other duties necessary to fulfill the goals of NJTI in supporting ECCs during disasters.

The call for volunteers is open through March 1, 2024.

Click here to apply. For questions, please reach out to Co-Chairs Jonathan Jones or  Brad Gass.

Multiple standards contribute to the i3-centric architecture for NG9-1-1, including but not limited to the NENA i3 Standard itself, the NENA EIDO and EIDO conveyance standards, NENA GIS Data Model, the upcoming NG PSAP/ECC standard, and others. The versioning scheme will bundle specific vintages of each NG9-1-1 technology standard into an easy-to-understand version on a set schedule. These versions will help the NG9-1-1 market in providing consistency for which versions of which standards are included in an up-to-date deployment of the entire suite of standards, help with future plans for updates/upgrades, and simplify backwards compatibility support decisions.

The purpose of this document is to establish a "version" series for the i3-centric standards-based NG9-1-1 architecture. This will establish a discrete collection of i3-centric standards of a specific version that are updated with a specific frequency, to be determined by the workgroup. The process for selecting standards will also be determined by the work group. The intent is to mimic, in part, 3GPP’s version release schedule for cellular standards. This simplifies procurement and implementation of complete NG9-1-1 systems and provides better standardization in implementation of the standards.

The document will include:

• A description of the i3 Series Release versioning mechanism
• Requirements for a specification being accepted into a given release
• Review criteria for specifications considered for a release
• Schedule for each version release
• Expectations or requirements for backwards compatibility for previous versions

Meeting times may vary.

NENA seeks volunteers from the User, Producer, and General Interest categories to join this group.

Click here to volunteer!