State of Montana

Upon recognizing the need for a modern NG9-1-1 infrastructure, the state legislature funded the Montana State Library to administer the Next Generation Core Services (NGCS) program for the coming decade. Although there was a strong culture of data sharing, the MSL was looking for a digital infrastructure to smoothly facilitate this process while providing counties and PSAPs the tools to be efficiently self-sufficient in validating their datasets. In September 2021, the Montana State Library published a Request for Proposals, to which 1Spatial submitted its Pubic Safety NG9-1-1 Enterprise Solution for consideration.

To serve the State of Montana’s data readiness assessment needs for deploying NG9-1-1, they implemented the 1Integrate Rules Engine and the 1Data Gateway portal supported by 1Spatial’s preconfigured NG9-1-1 Public Safety Rules Set. This toolset produces a spatial report of any anomalies to the NENA standards, which is then packaged and deliver the results back to the data provider. To facilitate uptake of the 1Data Gateway validation portal by counties and PSAPs, 1Spatial and Montana State Library hosted training sessions to educate users.

1Spatial's solution allowed counties and PSAPs to have the tools to independently operate while automating submittal of their data once it met the standards set by the State. The ability for data providers to drag and drop data into the validation portal and receive reports back pinpointing exactly where the NENA standard has any non-conforming issues but also pinpoints the exact locations of the nonconforming features, enables more efficient cleanup of the data. Now technicians no longer have to manually scroll through data sets looking for where there are geometry or attribution errors, saving significant time.

The State of Montana had confidence that there was no subjectivity in how each dataset that was uploaded was being evaluated with 1Spatial's solution. NENA continually updates its geospatial data standards for supporting NG9-1-1, and 1Spatial is closely monitoring these changes to ensure that its NG9-1-1 rules pack remains up to date with the latest confirmed requirements. Montana will use these standards as a statewide baseline and provision the data into the State’s Next Generation Core Services (NGCS). Additionally, 1Spatial and MSL are looking at pilot projects to support similar data supply chain ingestion and validation workflows to support other agency initiatives.