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 Polytechnic University of Milan won the first edition of the Leonardo Drone Contest: An Open Innovation Challenge, a competition launched by Leonardo in collaboration with six Italian universities to promote the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for unmanned systems.

Advanced RF Technologies announced the deployment of its ADXV public-safety distributed antenna system (DAS) and PSR series repeaters at Indianapolis International Airport. The public-safety solution empowers first responders with robust wireless connectivity across the 1.2 million square foot airport terminal and parking garage.

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 Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) and the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) approved updated or new environmental sensing capability (ESC) sensor deployment and coverage plans for CommScope, Google and Key Bridge Wireless.

Critical infrastructure and public-safety organizations filed two separate emergency petitions for stay with U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

During its board meeting in August, the Utilities Technology Council’s (UTC) board of directors approved a series of resolutions that set the association’s policy priorities for the rest of the year.

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau announced a temporary freeze on the acceptance and processing of certain applications in the 4.9 GHz band.

A variety of public-safety and industry entities argued that an auction of the T-band spectrum will not be successful and finding spectrum to relocate incumbents will be costly and difficult in comments to the FCC.

TCCA has launched registration for Critical Communications Week (CCWeek), its new free-to-attend event aimed at bringing the global sector together to network and learn within a virtual space.