The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will use Everbridge’s critical event management platform to help keep students, staff and faculty safe and informed during crisis situations.

Working in partnership with UNICEF, Australia’s University of Adelaide researchers created a best-practice toolkit to help developing countries rapidly generate and implement life-saving communications plans in the event of local emergencies.

Many radio enthusiasts will participate in a series of experiments to measure the effects on radio propagation during the total solar eclipse Aug. 21.

Europe’s CONCORDE and EPISECC projects are organizing a joint workshop on optimizing real-time information exchange in emergency and disaster management 11 September in Brussels, Belgium. Both projects are now coming to an end, and the workshop will present the projects’ results as well as reflect on the work that has been done during the past three years.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) selected George Mason University to lead a consortium of U.S. academic institutions and other partners for a new center of excellence (COE) in criminal investigations and network analysis (CINA). S&T will provide CINA with a $3.85 million grant for its first operating year in a 10-year grant period.

Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) said they have developed a new network protocol that simplifies the networking process and makes data transfer during emergencies more efficient.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Cyber Security Division (CSD) established active partnerships with cybersecurity organizations in 13 countries — including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Israel — and the European Union.

The board of governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation awarded funding to three homeland security projects between U.S. and Israeli companies to advance technologies for first responders. In addition to the grants from BIRD, the projects will access private sector funding, boosting the total value of the three projects to about $7 million.

Real-world tests of 5G technologies that could deliver dramatically faster data transfer speeds than 4G networks took place in Warsaw, Poland, earlier this month.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking information on the scope and sufficiency of efforts to educate and train the nation’s cybersecurity workforce and recommendations for ways to support and improve that workforce in both the public and private sectors. Responses to a request for information (RFI) are due Aug. 2.