The Office of Michigan’s Public Safety Communications System (MPSCS) kicked off a communications campaign titled, “12 Months to 25 Years, This Is Us,” leading up to its 25-year anniversary in 2020.

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The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) is collaborating with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR) on the Tech to Protect Challenge, a coding project. This national challenge introduces coding contests designed to aid emergency responders in serving and protecting communities nationwide.

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Expanding AT&T’s fleet of deployables and upgrading the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) core to 5G-ready technology are the first two investment areas for the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).

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Iridium Communications and OneWeb announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering. This combined service would make it easier for their mutual partners to offer bundling and co-marketing opportunities for the Iridium Certus L-band services and OneWeb’s Ku-band service.

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Iridium Communications was awarded a $738.5 million, seven-year, fixed-price contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) through the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSpC) to provide unlimited satellite services from its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

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The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) urged the FCC to move forward with 9-1-1 indoor location requirements of ±3 meters for the Z axis.

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The Department of Energy (DOE) expressed concerns with the FCC’s proposal to allow unlicensed devices in the 6 GHz band and said the commission should allocate dedicated spectrum for the energy and water industries.

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L3Harris Technologies completed the previously announced sale of the Harris Night Vision business to Elbit Systems of America for $350 million in cash.

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Wabtec is implementing Septentrio GPS receivers in its latest GoLINC platform as part of its positive train control (PTC) solution for freight railroads in the United States.

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HAAS Alert, a Chicago-based startup that alerts drivers of emergency vehicles, completed the first pilot of fleet cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) tests on Sprint’s 5G network in Chicago. The tests by the fleet collision prevention company achieved a 40 percent faster transmission time for alerts because of increased speeds and lower latency, with a decrease in variance of 72 percent on Sprint’s 5G network compared with Long Term Evolution (LTE), the companies said.

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