first responders

Creating a safe space for IoT

The innovative world of Internet of Things (IoT) means industry and government can build things better, stronger faster. They can gather more information,…

Technology

2021 Sammies finalist developed testing for emergency response robots

Technology

There are ‘essential’ people and then there are essential people – which are you?

Federal Report

What’s in the stimulus bills for the federal workforce?

Congress

No better time to say ‘thank you’

Workforce

FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo stacks of medical supplies are housed at the Jacob Javits Center that will become a temporary hospital in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York. A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Join the fight of our lives: Uncle Sam wants you back

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Kristen Finne, emPOWER, Department of Health and Human Services

Sammies finalist built database for first responders to find people without power

Federal Drive

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, a sign on a door of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued funding, researchers say. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

EPA’s chief financial officer is stepping down

Federal Newscast

FirstNet contract doesn’t entirely shut out other market players, Part 4

Federal Drive

AT&T will operate new national FirstNet first responder network, Part 3

Federal Drive

Ron Hewitt, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Not just state and local, federal emergency groups can use FirstNet, Part 2

Federal Drive

National first responder network becoming reality after nearly 20 years, Part 1

For this first of a four-part series on FirstNet, Federal Drive with Tom Temin checked in with its Chief Technology and Operations Officer Jeff Bratcher.

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