The Utilities Technology Council (UTC) recognized utilities and their personnel who demonstrated initiative, perseverance and innovative thinking throughout the past year.?The awards were given at the 2022 Telecom and Technology Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

TCCA announced the shortlist for its 2022 International Critical Communications Awards (ICCA). The award winners will be presented 21 June in Barcelona.

Utility industry representatives from across the U.S. elected Dewey Day of Pacific Gas & Electric as the new chair of the Utilities Technology Council (UTC) board of directors, effective through May 2023. Day was elected at UTC’s 2022 Telecom & Technology Conference’s Membership Meeting, held on May 18 in Oklahoma City.

In late March, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a warning that critical U.S. infrastructure sectors might be at risk of cyberattacks by Russian actors. Threats against the nation’s critical infrastructure aren’t new, however; the rapid development of new information and communication technologies (ITC), and their inevitable integration into our critical infrastructure, brings with it the possibility of digital attacks and other new challenges that we must be ready to face.

JSC "NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" (KTZ), the national operator of the main railway network of the Republic of Kazakhstan, plans to fully adopt TETRA digital radio communications as a standard.

Anterix launched an integrated platform to accelerate the scale benefits of a “network” of individual private broadband networks.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) selected 14 teams from minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to participate in the 2022 Summer Research Team (SRT) program.

The British Transport Police (BTP) is leveraging the NICE Investigate digital evidence management solution to drive digital transformation across its operations and help keep U.K. railways safe from crime.

Ericsson announced the opening of its Global Utilities Innovation Center at its facility in Plano, Texas. The new fully functional facility consists of a purpose-built operating lab and demo environment locations that will allow utilities to engage with Ericsson and its partners to solve real-world connectivity challenges.

With the exponential growth of the Internet of things (IoT), the world is becoming increasingly interconnected, with the prospect that most devices from domestic electronics to self-driving cars will be wirelessly connected to the network in the near future. Although massive device connectivity is great for the technological progress towards more intelligent and automated devices, it raises a number of questions and concerns towards the security aspect of the RF links, as devices become more susceptible to signal interception, eavesdropping, spoofing, unauthorized commanding and other security threats. This problem ranges from the user equipment (UE), base stations in small cells and the large core radio access network (RAN) itself.