FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel provided an update on the agency’s efforts to support the operation and restoration of communications services in the path of Hurricane Ian.

The FCC updated its Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules so that alerts delivered over television and radio are more informative and easier to understand by the public, particularly people with disabilities.

The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) announced a collaboration with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to further commercial cyber methodologies to build a shared standard, like the one used to develop the DIU’s Blue UAS “Cleared List.”

The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) conditionally granted an emergency request from Federated Wireless to waive sections of the rules governing the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) to help with relief from Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico.

The FCC provided an update on the support it is providing to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona struck the area with strong rains that caused massive damage.

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau added equipment and services from two entities to its list of communications equipment that has been deemed a threat to national security.

Senator Mike Lee introduced a new bill that would require the FCC to auction spectrum in the 3.1 – 3.45 GHz band. However, unlike a recent House of Representatives bill, the auction proceeds would not support next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) funding.

The European and Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and O-RAN announced that ETSI adopted the first O-RAN specification as ETSI TS 103 859, namely “O-RAN Fronthaul Control, User and Synchronization Plane Specification v7.02.”

The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) granted Amtrak’s license modification application for permanent authority to operate 25 positive train control (PTC) wireless base stations under Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS) license.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Cyber Command Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight continued malicious cyber activity by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors affiliated with the Iranian Government’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).