Verizon selected Advanced Ground Information Systems (AGIS) to feature its LifeRing first responder application on the Verizon Public Safety Portal.

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National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) 5.0 release candidate 1 (RC1) is available for public review and comment through Thursday, September 10.

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The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services selected DATAMARK, the public-safety geographic information system (GIS) team of Michael Baker International, for a purchasing contract to support next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) GIS data solutions and services for Oklahoma public-safety answering points (PSAPs). The contract began in August 2020 and runs through August 2021.

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Dinwiddie County, Virginia, retained the services of Federal Engineering to support the implementation of the county’s new public-safety mobile radio system.

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With a growing need to improve the security, efficiency and accuracy of passenger and baggage screening, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is working with a small business to advance explosive detection equipment. Synthetik Applied Technologies received funding to develop machine learning training data that simulates human travelers and baggage object models to support machine learning algorithms.

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Motorola Solutions acquired Callyo, a cloud-based mobile applications provider for law enforcement. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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A new requirement that nationwide wireless providers must deploy Z-axis technology nationwide by April 2025 while giving non-nationwide wireless providers an additional year to do so within their service areas will go into effect Sept. 28.

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The Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched the Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety challenge to create a new line of research into computer vision that will assist with the development of life-saving tools for public safety. The submission period for the first phase of the challenge opens on September 8.

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In a letter filed today, the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) urgently requested that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) address numerous instances of harmful interference from newly authorized digital television (DTV) stations to established private LMR (PLMR) systems.

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An ex parte filing from a coalition of public-safety and critical infrastructure entities urged the FCC to ensure that a multistakeholder group for the 6 GHz spectrum addresses several keys issues surrounding unlicensed use of the band.

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