Senior Vice President of Academic Programs and Research Jamie Barnett, Jr., RDML USNR (Ret.), recently served in an IPA assignment as Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB).  In an interview with Federal News Radio, he talked about the failure of Verizon's 911 emergency service during a severe storm in the DC area in June.  RDML Barnett warned that more needs to be done to prevent a similar outage in the future.  Click here to read more and to listen to the interview in full.