Motorola Solutions welcomed one of the Apollo 15 astronauts, Alfred “Al” Worden, at its Krakow Innovation Center in Poland. Worden was part of the NASA Apollo missions team, the pilot of the command module Endeavour and the first man to take a trans-Earth spacewalk.

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Sen. Ted Cruz stepped in on the issue of 700 MHz interference with public-safety communications networks at the Mexican border. The senator sent a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting their quick attention to Altán Redes (Altán), which plans to begin operations of its wholesale wireless 700 MHz network in Mexico.

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The FCC granted a request by the county of San Diego for a waiver of FCC rules to allow it to submit a letter of concurrence from a short-spaced licensee that lacks the requisite certification that the licensee is constructed and operational

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Leah Wansley joined the FIRST iZ team as chief brand pilot and will oversee the company’s branding, marketing and public-relations efforts.

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The Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) released a mission-critical push-to-talk/video/data (MCPTX) technical subcommittee report. The report recommends specific cutoff timelines for mission-critical services and Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) releases for public-safety implementations and procurements.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded Planck Aerosystems $200,000 to begin testing its autonomous small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) in operational settings.

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The Philippines National Police (PNP) launched a Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) communications system during the Philippines Communications and Electronic Service 77th Founding Anniversary as part of an effort to strengthen PNP connectivity through digital transformation. A series of live demos were carried out during the celebration.

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Sarasota County, Florida, selected RapidDeploy’s CAD solution for its 9-1-1 emergency communications center.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is working to bring smart cities standards to the public-safety community. DHS S&T launched a smart cities technology integration pilot in St. Louis in collaboration with both the city and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

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TCCA signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Korea’s Safe-Net Forum, a non-profit organization comprised of members from the country’s network operators, user groups, industry, academia and government.

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