The lack of standardized training and certification is the top issue hampering public-safety drone operations, according to DRONERESPONDERS. The finding is from a double-validated research initiative based on survey data, as well as live focus group feedback conducted during last week’s U.S. Public Safety UAS Summit in Las Vegas.

KT opened the world's first information, communications and technology (ICT)-assisted mountain rescue center on the Nepal side of the Himalayas 31 October, bolstering emergency communications with climbers.

The FCC requested comments on a New York University (NYU) petition for declaratory ruling that the commission’s rules prohibit the transmission on amateur radio frequencies of “effectively encrypted or encoded messages.”

Although the industry is undergoing unprecedented change, two-way radio technology isn’t going away, said representatives from five different radio manufacturers during the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) Wireless Leadership Summit in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 24.

Polaris Networks, a provider of wireless 4G and 5G packet core solutions and test tools entered into a partnership agreement with Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) to offer software solutions to organizations interested in conducting research and trials for wireless technologies.

The United States and South Korea entered into a bilateral partnership for deeper cooperation on science and technology research and development of solutions for disasters such as fire, storms, floods and earthquake and issues closely related to public safety such as security and infectious disease.

The BroadWay Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project team announced the additional companies involved in the pan-European public-safety mobile broadband system. BroadWay previously announced the selection of four consortia led by Airbus DS SLC, Frequentis, Leonardo and Rohill, which are working on the solution design phase to enable public-safety responders to be operationally mobile throughout Europe.

Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) announced a new funding opportunity, the NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) First Responder 3D Indoor Tracking (FR3D) Prize. The competition aims to achieve performance of sensors and systems for localization and tracking of first responders operating indoors in a variety of building environments without pre-deployed dedicated infrastructure.

Women And Drones, an organization dedicated to driving excellence in the unmanned industry by achieving equity and participation of women in all disciplines and across all employment sectors, today announced a new strategic alliance with DRONERESPONDERS, a non-profit program promoting public-safety unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Together, the two organizations will promote awareness, training, exercises and higher education in the use of drones for good by girls and women of all ages.

Korea Safe-Net Forum will host its fifth annual conference with a focus on public-safety technologies and applications 23 October in Seoul, South Korea. Hundreds of government administrators, network operators, public-safety Long Term Evolution (LTE) users, engineers, vendors and technology officials will participate in the event.