FCC Establishing Task Force on PSAP Architecture

The FCC is establishing the Task Force on Optimal Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Architecture, the commission planned to say in Monday’s Federal Register. The task force will examine the structure and architecture of U.S. PSAPs “to determine whether additional consolidation of PSAP facilities and architecture would promote greater efficiency” in various ways while retaining needed integration with local first responders, the FCC said. The task force has an April 30 deadline to report recommendations to the FCC. The commission’s August text-to-911 Further NPRM directed the Public Safety Bureau to establish the task force.