The chapter would like to thank everyone who made the July Membership Meeting. The chapter had a great turnout for Jonah White with Trust Digital discussing Gamified Hacking.

Congratulations to the student scholarship winners, Tyler Steward, Kaylyn Grant, Elizabeth Ohse, Grant Hilton and Tanner Smith. Also, congratulations to Virginia Dewey with Mid-Del Technology Center for the Teaching Award and Daniel Sudmeier for his professional scholarship.

In January, the chapter met in person and online to conduct their monthly chapter luncheon meeting and invited Suresh Gursahaney, CEO and NG9-1-1 thought leader of MicroAutomation, a leading provider of Next Generation 9-1-1 Solutions, to be their guest speaker. The chapter services Tinker Air Force Base and the surrounding greater Oklahoma City area.

Gursahaney was awarded the Oklahoma City Chapter coin after his 'Modernizing Emergency Communications with the DoD' presentation at the chapter meeting. The presentation explored the challenges of enabling the U.S. Defense Department to support modern emergency communication solutions. Specifically, the current limitations of 9-1-1 communications at Defense Department bases and solutions for how the armed forces can transition from basic 9-1-1 services to Next Generation 9-1-1.

"It was an honor and privilege to be able to present new ways of using Next Generation 9-1-1 technology to support the people who protect and serve our country," said Gursahaney. "Security, cost and standardization are some of the key challenges for DoD. I shared several solutions for overcoming those challenges and how to transform a legacy Emergency Operations Center within the DoD."

Suresh also briefed the 16th Air Force's 38th Cyberspace Engineering and Installation Group at Tinker Air Force Base earlier in the morning on Next Generation 9-1-1, Command Post and Call Center technologies.

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