Aeroflex Wichita, doing business as Cobham AvComm, announced ISO 9001 standard certification from ISO 9001:2008 to the newly revised standard ISO 9001:2015. ISO 9001 is a widely recognized quality management standard to help organizations meet the expectations and needs of their customers.

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The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate ( S&T) collaborated with the National Alliance For Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation to hold the first National Mutual Aid Technology Exercise (NMATE) June 28 – 29 at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters. The exercise, sponsored by S&T’s First Responder Group (FRG), brought together technologists, operators and decision-makers from all over the country to determine to what extent existing mutual-aid technology systems can share and incorporate each other’s resource and situational awareness information.

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The President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) released a report on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure communications networks. The report outlines 10 recommendations.

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A U.S. district judge allowed Motorola Solutions to file a second reply to a motion by Hytera Communications to dismiss a theft of trade secrets lawsuit filed by Motorola earlier this year, after Motorola argued that Hytera raised several new arguments in defending its motion.

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The Stevens County (Washington) Sheriff's Office streamlined emergency medical response for 9-1-1 calls by transitioning to PowerPhone's Total Response system. Stevens County's upgrade includes replacing paper-based call-handling protocols with a software system that seamlessly interfaces with its Spillman CAD system.

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Steve and David Reeves will receive The David J. Robison Award for 2017 from the Technology Resource Network (TRN) board of directors.

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The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) team released a prize challenge for a series of educational videos about public-safety technology. The challenge is to create a series of seven videos to explain “open innovation” and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) “Public Safety Communications Research Open Innovation Accelerator” to the public.

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Freedom Communication Technologies signed manufacturer’s representative DH Sales Group to represent Freedom products in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

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AT&T said its video analytics team at AT&T Labs joined forces with its national drone team to bring automated cell tower inspections a step closer to reality. With automation, AT&T can inspect and fix problems at towers faster, better and more efficiently,

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The Trump administration scrapped its Advisory Council on Infrastructure, established with an executive order in July, according to press reports. However on Aug. 15, Trump released another executive order “establishing discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects.”

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