Mission Critical Partners (MCP) announced it acquired Black & Veatch’s Public Safety (BVPS) consulting division. The value of the acquisition was not released.

Amateur radio encryption, proposed spectrum changes, the ongoing legal battle between Motorola Solutions and Hytera Communications, and the future of LMR topped the most read online stories for MissionCritical Communications in 2019.

Texas A&M University’s Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center is gearing up for its Winter Institute workshop and exercise, later this month in College Station and Disaster City, Texas.

Increasing network requirements across large organizations adopting software-driven operations are fueling the deployment of private Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks. Businesses are implementing automation, analytics and machine communications to enhance productivity and efficiency, as well as security.

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) announced that comments in response to the initial designation of Huawei Technologies and ZTE as covered companies in the “Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through FCC Programs” report and order are due Feb. 3.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released an initial estimate of sharing costs and timelines for eligible frequencies in the 3.55 – 3.65 GHz spectrum band.

The ongoing legal battle between Motorola Solutions and Hytera Communications and the rollout and planning of critical broadband networks around the world topped the most read online stories for RadioResource International in 2019.

Axon filed a lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona in Phoenix. In its 29-page complaint, Axon asked the court to declare the FTC's structure and administrative procedures unconstitutional, and to adjudicate the legality of Axon’s Vievu acquisition in a federal court.

More critical infrastructure industries (CII) and private wireless entities are lobbying the FCC on both sides of the 900 MHz realignment proposal.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to take comments on an action to require the remote identification (remote ID) of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). UAS remote ID in U.S. airspace would address safety, national security and law enforcement concerns regarding the further integration of these aircraft into the airspace and enable greater operational capabilities, the FAA said.