Charleston County (South Carolina) Consolidated 9-1-1 Center signed a contract with RapidDeploy to replace its on-premises CAD system with RapidDeploy’s cloud-native dispatch platform. The move to a cloud-native platform will give Charleston County access to modern features like real-time traffic information and incident feeds, allowing a faster and more informed emergency response, a statement said.

President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate John Chase Johnson to be the FCC inspector general.

Ondas Networks received a purchase order in December from a North American Class 1 railroad to deploy its FullMAX software-defined radio (SDR) technology in the 900 MHz licensed frequency band.

Leitstelle Tirol, the statewide command-and-control center for fire, rescue and other emergency response services in the federal state of Tyrol, Austria, selected CAD software from Hexagon’s Safety & Infrastructure division to support call-takers and dispatchers and optimize public-safety answering point (PSAP) processes.

Motorola Solutions named Michael Kaae as regional vice president of sales for Europe. Kaae, who has more than 20 years of technology sales leadership experience, will lead Motorola Solutions’ direct government and commercial sales business across Europe, including Russia.

Mutualink’s board of directors appointed Joe Mazzarella president. Mark Hatten will continue in his current role as CEO and chairman of the board.

Sierra Wireless completed the previously announced acquisition of M2M Group in Australia. Total cash consideration paid to the shareholders of the M2M Group was US$19.6 million plus about US$1.1 million for the retirement of certain obligations, subject to normal working capital adjustments.

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) announced it acquired Black & Veatch’s Public Safety (BVPS) consulting division. The value of the acquisition was not released.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) funded the development of guidance and tools to help communities measure their “capability quotient (CQ),” the readiness to respond to risk and to respond to disruptions of any kind.

Texas A&M University’s Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center is gearing up for its Winter Institute workshop and exercise, later this month in College Station and Disaster City, Texas.