FREMONT, Calif., March 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) is pleased to announce the addition of RapidDeploy, a cloud aided dispatch and analytics platform, as a Platinum member of the organization.

Steve Raucher, RapidDeploy Co-Founder and CEO, said, “We look forward to participating in this much needed forum for both public safety and industry to enhance the efficiency of public safety operations. We are committed to establishing interoperability for CAD and other critical public safety software that should be available to everyone in public safety.”

The PSTA encourages and is actively seeking public safety, industry, government and academia participation on the PSTA’s technical subcommittees. Currently, the organization is focused on the following six technical priorities:
1.    Situational Awareness Solutions (SAS)
2.    Identity
3.    Mission Critical Push to X – (Talk, Video, Data) and 3GPP standards
4.    Cybersecurity
5.    Mapping
6.    LMR interoperability to LTE

PSTA will be discussing details on the progress of the subcommittees during the IWCE conference the first week of March and will soon be posting draft recommendations on the PSTA website to solicit public safety and industry feedback.

To join and participate now, please visit https://www.pstalliance.org/how-to-join/.

“We are pleased to welcome RapidDeploy as a member of the PSTA,” added TJ Kennedy, PSTA CEO. “Rapid Deploy is leading the charge to have fully cloud native operations for CAD and we look forward to their insightful contributions to PSTA’s technical subcommittee work,” he concluded.

About PSTA
The Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA), comprised of telecommunications industry, public safety, and technology leaders, is a nonprofit coalition with a mission of adopting open, best-in-class, standards-based technology for the public safety user community. As broadband and narrowband networks evolve to meet the demands of first responders, so too must the standards evolve to ensure interoperability between and among the various networks, applications and databases upon which public safety users rely. For more information visit http://www.pstalliance.org

About RapidDeploy
RapidDeploy is the market leader in Cloud Aided Dispatch (CAD) and 9-1-1 analytics software. The RapidDeploy platform is rich in location-based features and interfaces, easy to deploy and affordable for agencies of all sizes. RapidDeploy was built by First Responders using modern Microsoft Azure Government Cloud architecture, providing mission critical reliability, cybersecurity and state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence. RapidDeploy’s mission is to reduce response times for all and improve first responder safety by increasing situational awareness. Learn more at http://www.RapidDeploy.com    

Contact
Victoria Lee
Tel: 541-771-2144
Email: vicki@publicsafety.network

SOURCE Public Safety Technology Alliance