AT&T and Samsung Electronics joined the NYU WIRELESS research center at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. AT&T is the research center's 13th industrial affiliate partner.

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Internet of Things Community announced an agreement to accelerate the digital transformation of the internet of things (IoT) and further the development of smart buildings.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) requested comments from interested parties with regard to development of a comprehensive, long-term national spectrum strategy.

A workshop on the use of social media and crowdsourcing for disaster management 11 December in Bled, Slovenia, showed the progress of the E2mC consortium.

Harris plans to invest more than $125 million in internal research and development (R&D) in Florida this fiscal year, bolstering high-paying jobs and the company’s innovation leadership in the state, a statement said.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded a total of $1.15 million across two organizations to develop new research and development (R&D) capabilities to enhance the management of privacy threats and vulnerabilities.

Texas A&M University-San Antonio (A&M-SA) deployed an indoor positioning solution across its entire campus. The SafeZone indoor positioning solution, provided by CriticalArc, provides the campus police with a three-dimensional view of multistory buildings.

ALERTWildfire, a consortium of three universities — the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR); University of California, San Diego (UCSD); and the University of Oregon (OU) — partnered with California-based GeoLinks, a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), to deploy wildfire detection, prevention and situational awareness systems across the state of California.

The Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions, announced more than $9.5 million in grant funding this year to charitable organizations around the world. The grants will impact more than 2 million students, first responders, teachers, veterans and community members in more than 38 countries, with a focus on nonprofit organizations that provide education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), as well as public safety.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and its counterparts in the Netherlands announced a total of $2.5 million in collaborative cybersecurity research and development (R&D) across five U.S-Dutch research teams.