The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded L3Harris Technologies a five-year, $500 million ceiling, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with an initial delivery order of $30.6 million for the Air Force and Army Anti-jam Modem (A3M).

Union Pacific Railroad deployed RADWIN's portfolio of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions to monitor and manage hundreds of remote railyards located west of the Mississippi River in the central and western U.S. by implementing high-throughput video surveillance networks and connecting remote railyard buildings.

TCCA’s Critical Communications Broadband Group (CCBG) confirmed Luz Fernández del Rosal of Germany’s Federal Agency for Public Safety Digital Radio (BDBOS) as the new vice chair. Del Rosal takes over the role from Emmanuelle Villebrun of the French Ministry of the Interior and will work with CCBG Chair Tero Pesonen.

Motorola Solutions announced it is helping Rio Tinto design and roll out a backup communications solution for Rio Tinto Aluminium’s integrated operations center (IOC), in Brisbane, Queensland.

JVCKENWOOD acquired the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 27001:2013 international standards for information security management system (ISMS) and Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) Q 27001:2014 certifications for its public service sector.

AT&T announced the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) network is supporting more than 1.3 million FirstNet connections across more than 12,000 agencies in service. Those numbers are up since February, when AT&T said it had more than 11,000 public-safety agencies and organizations subscribing to FirstNet, accounting for more than 1.2 million connections nationwide.

Owner and founder of Damm Cellular Systems, Hans Damm, plans to celebrate his 70th birthday 25 April. The company will celebrate its 40th jubilee next year.

Rohill, PT Len Industri and PT Simoco Indonesia signed a cooperation agreement for local production of mission-critical communications systems in Indonesia. By sharing knowledge and resources, setting up a local production unit and a joint market approach, the parties aim to provide customers with a secure, cost-effective and future-proof solution.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its latest initiatives to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including adding more than 65,000 priority telecommunications users.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that a report and order to reconfigure the 900 MHz band for the deployment of broadband services and technologies is on the commission’s May meeting agenda.