APCO Standards Development Writing Groups

Technology is transforming PSAPs into the nerve center of Emergency Response. Managing data-rich communications and multiple communications paths from 9-1-1 callers then to and between first responders. Will become and ever more challenging task. But it is not only technology that drives our profession, and our progress, it is people. People just like you who are front line Telecommunicators, Supervisors, Managers, Technologists, and specialists at every level. In addition, our working partnership with industry has never been more critical.

APCO, as an ANSI Accredited Standards Development Organization, is poised to lead America’s Emergency Communications Centers and Professionals into this exciting future. But we can only do it if you, our members, participate in, and become part of leading, the process of creating the standards and best practices that will define our profession for years to come.

Standards Development Writing Groups are formed as needed, based upon the identification of new standards to be developed, with the goal of providing subject matter expertise across multiple groups in the development of these standards. APCO seeks public safety practitioners, vendor and commercial technologists, and academic and Federal partner participation in these writing groups to ensure a good mix of experience and expertise.

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