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Communications Technology Laboratory

Public Safety Communications Research Division

Serving as an objective technical advisor and laboratory, PSCR is driven towards advancing public safety communications technologies by accelerating their development, adoption, and implementation so that the public safety community can more effectively carry out their mission to protect lives and property.

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5x5 Public Safety Innovation Summit
Thank you to everyone who attended 5x5 2025 in Bellevue, WA. Visit the 5x5 website for additional summit details and to view the past agenda, sessions, and demo information. Additionally, check out the shared album to view content taken from the 5x5 2025 summit.

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News and Updates

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Technology Demonstrations at 5x5

Do you have an innovative, cutting-edge, or emerging technology that has the potential to advance public safety communications? NIST Public Safety

Press Coverage

NIST PSCR Division Joins TCCA

The Critical Communications Review
TCCA, the global member-led organisation for all stakeholders in the critical communications ecosystem has announced that the U.S. National Institute of

America’s NIST PSCR Division joins TCCA

TCCA
Thursday 5 December 2024 – TCCA, the global member-led organisation for all stakeholders in the critical communications ecosystem has announced that the US

Software

Point Cloud City Open3D ML Repository

Point Cloud City (PCC) was developed during the 2018 NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program - PCC awardees generated an extensive catalog of

Analytics Container Environment (ACE) Nano

The ACE Nano is a repository that contains the work done to integrate the Nvidia Nano IoT device into the ACE Framework . It is set up in two components: Jetson

Common code for MCX QoE Measurement Classes

The following is a base library for mission critical voice quality of experience measurement methods. This package contains core code for QoE measurements used

SDNist: Synthetic Data Report Tool

This iteration of the SDNist library (v1.4) is focused on generating reports that compare synthetic data to the NIST Diverse Community Excerpts . The synthetic

Resource Library

View all PSCR publications and available resources in one location! Organized by portfolio area, the PSCR resource library provides access to recent research updates and articles to date. Visit the Resource Library now. 

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