DoD established the Emergency Management Modernization Program (EM2P) to ensure that DoD installations met the directive and had Full Operational Capability (FOC) for E-911 services by 2014. E-911services were to be commensurate with and supportable by E-911 systems in the surrounding local communities and consist of the basic capability of automatically notifying dispatchers of a caller’s location and broadcasting emergency notifications to designated geographic locations. The EM2P program had several challenges to overcome in carrying out the DoD initiative. First, DoD installations are typically secure facilities making it difficult for systems to interact with outside services such as databases maintained by the local carriers.

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