Coinciding with a new local investment of $15,000 and a STEM event in St. Louis, Verizon is celebrating the completion of a mentoring program with St. Louis non-profit Gateway Global, whose STEM-based apprenticeship education and workforce development solutions foster entry-level tech jobs, promotions to management and beyond.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division launched its Public-Safety Immersive Test Center in Boulder, Colorado in May.

Rajant deployed its fourth-generation BreadCrumb Peregrine, which provides a four-to-six time increase in overall throughput capacity, enabling a host of new applications, at a South African mine.

The FCC opened bidding in its latest mid-band spectrum auction to support next generation wireless services, including 5G.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved the Spectrum Innovation Act, which would provide up to $10 billion in funding for next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1).

After two days of its first-ever fixed-wing test flights in western Maryland, AURA Network Systems reported successful demonstrations of its critical communications links to assure safe operations of remotely piloted commercial flights beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS).

A variety of industry associations, service providers and user agencies responded to an FCC request for comments on the use of location-based routing for public-safety answering points (PSAPs). Many commenters focused on whether or not the FCC should require providers to provide location-based routing.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and its National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL) hosted Urban OpEx 2022, an operational experimentation (OpEx) where first responders evaluated new and emerging technology solutions in realistic, urban settings throughout the New York Metropolitan area during the week of July 18 - 22.

The Fairfield Police Department in Fairfield, Ohio, selected a full CentralSquare Public Safety Suite Pro software system from CentralSquare Technologies featuring 911, CAD, RMS, Mobile and Jail as their preferred and trusted public safety suite. Fairfield also selected CentralSquare’s CrimeView Analytics for actionable insights and DEMS for digital evidence management.

Registration for the 7th European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) MCX Plugtests, which will take place in Malaga, Spain, from 7-11 November.