Verizon Frontline: Jason Mitchell, Calvin Jackson discuss new Innovation Program

Jason Mitchell, an associate director with the Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team, and Calvin Jackson, a senior manager with the Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team, talk about the Verizon Frontline Innovation Program introduced in January. An evolution of Verizon's former 5G First Responder Lab, is designed to encourage partnerships between Verizon and vendors to develop communications solutions to address challenges cited by public-safety personnel.

Donny Jackson, Editor

February 1, 2024

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Jason Mitchell, an associate director with the Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team, and Calvin Jackson, a senior manager with the Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team, talk about the Verizon Frontline Innovation Program introduced in January. An evolution of Verizon's former 5G First Responder Lab, is designed to encourage partnerships between Verizon and vendors to develop communications solutions to address challenges cited by public-safety personnel.

To learn more about the Innovation Program, visit https://www.verizon.com/business/solutions/public-sector/public-safety/programs/frontline-innovation/. This link will lead you to a web page explaining the initiative and allows anyone to submit ideas for potential solutions or to outline a public-safety communications issue that a user would like Verizon Frontline to consider solving through the Innovation Program. Verizon Frontline personnel also will be available to answer questions about the Innovation Program in the company's booth at IWCE 2024, which will be conducted in Orlando during last full week of March.

About the Author

Donny Jackson

Editor, Urgent Communications

Donny Jackson is director of content for Urgent Communications. Before joining UC in 2003, he covered telecommunications for four years as a freelance writer and as news editor for Telephony magazine. Prior to that, he worked for suburban newspapers in the Dallas area, serving as editor-in-chief for the Irving News and the Las Colinas Business News.

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