Percepto announced a strategic investment of $45 million in Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) to launch a transformative solution for remote, fully autonomous, asset monitoring, inspection and compliance of industrial sites.

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GeoComm is excited to announce it entered into a geographic information system (GIS) data maintenance agreement with the Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP). The WHP relies on accurate and up-to-date GIS data for its CAD system, which is used to route resources to the location of emergency calls across the state.

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NextNav announced that its Pinnacle service for vertical positioning is now available in fifty major US markets. With rollouts continuing across the country, NextNav said it is on track to exceed FCC coverage requirements for vertical location by the end of March 2021.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published airworthiness criteria for the proposed certification of 10 different unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also known as drones, as special class aircraft. This is a crucial step to enabling more complex drone operations beyond what is allowed under the Part 107 small unmanned aircraft rule, including package delivery.

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The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) denied a petition from ZTE asking for reconsideration of its designation as a company posing national security threat to U.S. communications networks and/or the supply chain.

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The U.S. Senate passed a bill aimed at improving the cybersecurity of internet of things (IoT) devices. The bill was passed by the House in September and now moves to the president for approval.

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The NG 9-1-1 Interoperability Oversight Commission (NIOC) released a request for proposals (RFP) for the forest guide. The forest guide is a core functional element in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) standards to allow for transfer of calls between disparate emergency services IP networks (ESInets).

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Comtech Telecommunications received a statewide contract valued up to $175.1 million to design, deploy and operate next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) services for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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RCA Communications Systems added North Mississippi 2Way Communications and Professional Technical Assistance to its network of authorized two-way radio dealers.

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The future of the Florida Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) is still uncertain as the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) continues to negotiate with L3Harris on a contract extension and the state legislature on the budget for the new system.

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