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Meet Your AFC Advisors: Anthony Melia (New Jersey)
March 16, 2017Anthony Melia has been APCO’s local advisor in the state of New Jersey for nearly 17 years. He has over 26 years of extensive communications and emergency management experience and has been consistently recognized for outstanding accomplishments. Throughout his career, Anthony has obtained substantial training in numerous technological areas such as radio communications infrastructure, on scene coordination, and planning and training.
Read full articleAPCO International Announces Recipients of 2017 Leadership in Policy Awards
March 13, 2017APCO International announces the recipients of its prestigious 2017 Public Safety Communications Leadership in Policy Awards, who will be honored during APCO’s Annual Public Safety Communications Leadership Dinner in Washington, DC, on May 17, 2017.
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Paul M. Mayer (Ohio)
March 9, 2017Paul M. Mayer retired in 2014 after more than 46 years of service to the citizens of Ohio. Paul began his state service on April 29, 1968, as a communications officer at the Berea District 10 Headquarters (Ohio Turnpike) of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. He was transferred to the Massillon District 3 Headquarters where he continued to learn his craft. In 1980, he was promoted to radio technician 3 and sent back to Berea as the district chief technician where he primarily supervised highway patrol telecommunications operations across the 241-mile-long Ohio Turnpike and secondarily served as the Highway Patrol’s telecommunications liaison with the public safety community in northeastern Ohio.
Read full articleSmiths Interconnect Launches Brand Transition to Simplify Customer Access to Technologies and Solutions
March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 – Smiths Interconnect, a division of Smiths Group plc, today announces it is unifying its technology brands of…
Read full articleKodiak Completes Interoperability Testing for Zetron’s MAX Dispatch
March 3, 2017Plano, TX, March 2, 2017 – Kodiak, a leading provider of broadband push-to-talk solutions, announced today that it has completed testing…
Read full articleMeet Your AFC Advisors: Jesse Griggs (Tennessee)
March 2, 2017Jesse Griggs received his formal electronics training in the U.S. Navy where he was an aviation electronic technician. After he left the Navy, he went back to work with the Tennessee Department of Correction. Jesse held the following positions: correctional officer, correctional corporal, correctional sergeant, training specialist, radio communications technician 2, radio communications 3 and correctional program support coordinator- coordinator of communications and utilities. He retired with 37 years of service
Read full articleAPCO Welcomes Discussion Draft Bill on Next Generation 9-1-1
March 1, 2017U.S. Senators Nelson (FL) and Klobuchar (MN) released a draft bill, the “Next Generation 9-1-1 Act of 2017,” to further deployment of NG9-1-1 services and enhance and upgrade the nation’s 9-1-1 systems.
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