Marana Police Department, serving the city of Marana, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, is the first public-safety answering point (PSAP) in Pima County to cut over to a managed service solution for 9-1-1 emergency calls. The solution is available to the state’s PSAPs to upgrade to next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1).

BuildingDNA named 9-1-1 safety services veteran Joe Hernandez CEO. Hernandez brings decades of industry experience to the company to continue to foster its commitment to public safety.

Norsat International said it notified Hytera Communications that it received a superior offer to Hytera’s offer from Privet Fund Management to acquire the company.

Nokia, together with State Security Networks Group, Finland's public safety network provider, and Telia Finland successfully trialed the use of network features developed by Nokia that ensure public-safety communications are given priority over any other voice or data traffic in busy 4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.

Airbus launched the U.S. base and operations of a new commercial drone start-up, named Airbus Aerial.

The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) selected the S.M. Group International (SMi), Télécommunications Grimard and PowerTrunk, part of the Sepura Group, to supply and install a new, state of the art TETRA radio and voice recording system for its subway operations across its network. SMi and Grimard will provide the installation and system integration services, while PowerTrunk will supply the TETRA network infrastructure and radio dispatch solution.

Airbus provided reliable and secure radio communications technology to protect the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing. Twenty heads of state and 1,200 high-level participants from international organizations gathered the last two days to discuss economic development and cooperation in Asia. The Chinese capital’s JustTop mission-critical radio network for police and rescue services, based on Airbus TETRA technology, contributed to the conference’s success.

Motorola Solutions provided a system upgrade for the Shanghai aviation hub, one of the world’s top 10 aviation hubs in 2016. The system upgrade included a software maintenance service contract for a major TETRA communications solution.

Motorola Solutions elected Joe Tucci to its board of directors. Tucci is the former chairman and CEO of EMC Corporation and helped the company move its business model from a focus on high-end storage platforms into a federation of businesses with leadership in information storage, protection and security, infrastructure virtualization and cloud management and orchestration.

The conclusion of the patent infringement complaint Motorola Solutions filed against Hytera Communications with the U.S. International Trade Commission is likely a ways off.