Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown discussed an extension for its Airwave contract with the U.K. Home Office and a U.K. investigation into its dual roles in Airwave network and the Emergency Services Network (ESN) project during an appearance at the Credit Suisse conference November 30.

Industry consultant and educator Andrew Seybold takes a look back at the difference between network capacity requirements for commercial and public-safety broadband networks and explores why that difference is important in discussion surrounding 4.9 GHz.

T-Mobile and the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau reached an agreement to resolve the commission’s investigation into whether the carrier violated the FCC’s 9-1-1 rules during an outage in June 2020.

The National Institute of Science and Technology’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program announced a funding opportunity for its Public-Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) 2022.

A coalition aimed at helping advance the transition to next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) sent a letter to several Congressional leaders asking them to increase the funding targeted at NG 9-1-1 in a reconciliation bill.

Versaterm Public Safety acquired Komutel, a provider of communications solutions for emergency services call takers, including middleware for the transition from legacy 9-1-1 to to next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1).

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) awarded Mike Duyck the Chief Harlin R. McEwan Public-Safety Broadband Communications Award at its Nov. 17 board meeting.

The deployment and installation process for an emergency responder radio communications systems (ERRCS) in a luxury apartment in San Francisco highlights some of the challenges and obstacles with in-building communications.

Today, as technologies, services, data and people interact in ever more complex ways, the potential danger from cyber threats has moved beyond traditional networks and computer systems. As the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attacks and the SolarWinds hack showed, a cyberattack against the nation’s critical infrastructure can have devastating impacts across one or more of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors and produce cascading disruptions that impact multiple sub-sectors. Determined adversaries consistently find innovative methods to exploit vulnerabilities. To stay ahead, we need a rapid, streamlined way to develop, test and utilize cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions.

Funded by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Mission Critical Services - Testing as a Service (MCS-TaaSting) project announced that 60% of mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) conformance test cases have been formally verified.