NextNav the availability of its software development kit (SDK) for the Pinnacle vertical positioning service on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) API Catalog, which is a curated catalog of public-safety-relevant application programming interfaces (APIs) and SDKs.

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Rajant donated $15,000 to Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors, an independent, statewide nonprofit organization through which 95 percent of all donations go directly to veterans in need of financial support and their families.

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The second of the three-phase BroadWay Precommercial Procurement (PCP) began on 6 July when the group of procurers awarded contracts to three consortia that met all the technical and quality requirements of the call-off competition at the end of the first phase. In the second phase, the prototype phase, the consortia are led by Airbus DS, Frequentis and Leonardo.

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Leonardo said that it is evaluating the possibility of an initial public offering (IPO) for Leonardo DRS, its North American wing, but has made no decisions yet.

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ESChat announced it completed a migration of all its U.S. based public-safety customers to the Amazon AWS GovCloud environment. The migration was the final step in a suite of enhancements required for the company to facilitate nationwide interagency push-to-talk (PTT) communications between ESChat customers and traditional LMR users.

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An initiative to interconnect three Pennsylvania regions via a fiber-optic communications network to improve emergency response was completed at the end of October. The project was supported by Mission Critical Partners (MCP).

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Hytera Communications’ U.S. subsidiaries asked a U.S. bankruptcy court to expedite its consideration of a proposed sale of their assets to a recently formed Hytera entity.

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The board of directors of AT&T selected William E. Kennard to serve as its chairman, effective January 2021, upon the retirement of Randall Stephenson, currently AT&T’s executive chairman of the board.

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Nextlink Internet selected BEC Technologies for its fixed wireless Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) deployments.

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The Fifth European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) MCX Plugtests saw a 95% success rate in its testing. While three of the previous four plugtests events were held in person and the fifth was originally planned to be in-person, the fifth event was held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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