Saudi radio communications operator Bravo contracted Airbus to renew the existing public-safety network in eastern Saudi Arabia. Airbus will deliver and deploy 150 TETRA base stations in the coming months.

Nedaa, the Dubai government security networks provider, is participating as the major sponsor of Critical Communications Middle East and North Africa 2017 (CCMENA) for the fifth consecutive year and will demonstrate its core strategies for supporting public-safety enforcement.

Pilot Brian Lloyd commenced a round-the-world flight from June to July to commemorate Amelia Earhart’s route 80 years ago in 1937. Royal Communications International supported the expedition. The two-month flight followed Earhart’s historic equatorial route.

Hytera held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new headquarters building in Shenzhen 8 September. Qingzhou Chen, chairman and president of Hytera, along with the senior management team and representatives from the contractor and supervision institution, ritually laid the foundation for the 200-meter high building at the ceremony, which kicked off construction.

Airbus TETRA technology is part of the next-generation electronic verification system to transmit data and information of vessel locations off the coast to the Atlas telecom company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It will be used to integrate confidential data, such as GPS positioning and text messages, into the Atlas vessel identification system, which is run by a government agency.

The TCCA added two new board members, Philippe Agard and Ari Toivonen.

Davicom, a division of Comlab, announced two new technical sales representatives. Louis-Charles Cuierrier is the company’s new technical sales rep for the United States and Canada. He has extensive sales experience in the wireless telephony market, and he recently completed a degree in electrical engineering at Laval University.

Radical Systems won the 2017 Motorola Solutions public-safety hackathon in Australia. The Darwin-based business systems developer won the 48-hour challenge with a solution designed to capture vital data for emergency services while maintaining the integrity of highly secure and covert communications.

Airbus provided local and independent radio networks for critical telecommunications provider Bravo to cover events during the Hajj pilgrimage event. Bravo supported a governmental client in the western part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 30 August to 4 September.

Motorola Solutions opened an innovation center in London that the company said sets a vision of “smart public safety for a digital society.”