Dereck Orr, the chief of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR) looks at the research that the division has completed over the last couple of years.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois unsealed a criminal complaint against seven individuals accused of stealing trade secrets from Motorola Solutions.

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.

The 30x30 Initiative is an industry effort aimed at getting more women involved in law enforcement. Currently, the initiative and Mark43 are partnering to hold listening sessions to learn the challenges women in law enforcement are facing. To get an idea of the initiative’s goals and the challenges facing women in law enforcement, we talked to Ganesha Martin, a member of the 30x30 Initiative Steering Committee and vice president of community affairs and public policy for Mark43.

The FirstNet network now has about 3.3 million connections across 300,000 subscribers according to AT&T’s first-quarter 2022 financial results.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) announced that CEO Edward Parkinson will be leaving the organization. Deputy CEO Lisa Casias will assume the acting CEO position May 10.

The FCC voted to open a proceeding to explore options for promoting improvements in RF receiver performance, including through use of incentives, industry-led voluntary approaches, commission policy and guidance, or regulatory requirements.

Few people not directly involved in the technical complexities understand quite how much work goes on behind the scenes to ensure the seamless operation of mission-critical networks. While today’s narrowband networks running on TETRA, P25 and others are well-established self-contained entities, the emerging critical broadband services over 4G LTE and 5G networks create massive complexity in terms of interconnection, security and a host of other areas.

Motorola Solutions acquired Calipsa, a provider of cloud-native advanced video analytics based in London. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The final phase of the BroadWay pre-commercial procurement (PCP) reached an important technical milestone that demonstrated the challenges defined by practitioners are technically feasible.