The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would direct the FCC to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) and to make improvements to network outage reporting.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued a request for information (RFI) seeking information on innovative solutions to enable dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) within the DoD’s currently allocated spectrum with the goal of accelerating spectrum sharing decisions and 5G deployment.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed an act that would repeal the mandate that the FCC auction off the T-band spectrum 2021.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted Skyward, a Verizon company, a temporary waiver that allows company pilots to fly the Percepto Sparrow drone from their homes to inspect critical communications infrastructure near the Big Hollow wildfire in Washington. The waiver permits operations 24 hours a day, with less than 3 miles of visibility and no pilot or observer on site.

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) sent an ex parte letter to the FCC seeking more details on the commission’s proposal to allow states to lease 4.9 GHz spectrum to commercial entities, utilities and other.

The FCC has recognized the potential of television broadcasting to evolve and has allowed licensed operators to transition to an all IP-based broadcast technology called Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC 3.0) or NextGen TV. This wireless standard, the result of work that was aligned with Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPPP) and other IP-based communications platforms, is just now being deployed. By the nature of its underlying awareness of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and ability to transport time synchronous data packet payloads, there now exists a new tool that has an ability to impact the world of Position/Navigation/Timing (PNT).

Motorola Solutions won four awards at Good Design Australia competition. The company earned the awards for its next generation of mission critical solutions in video and voice communications.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected 15 more schools to to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Collegiate Training Initiative (UAS-CTI).

The FCC’s Public-Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is seeking comment from interested parties on a petition for a waiver of 9-1-1 dispatchable location information requirements from GTA TeleGuam Holdings.

Ericsson has agreed to acquire Cradlepoint, a provider of wireless edge WAN 4G and 5G enterprise solutions. The investment is key to Ericsson’s ongoing strategy of capturing market share in the rapidly expanding 5G enterprise space.