The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released the state CIO top 10 priorities for 2020 with cybersecurity remaining the top priority for the seventh year.

Lack of funding and resources such as expert staff are the biggest challenges facing public-safety IT and communications managers, according to a recent survey.

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) TR-8.19 Engineering Committee on Wireline System Interfaces issued a call for interest for document TIA-102.BACA-B-3 initially titled Inter-RF Subsystem Interface – Messages and Procedures for Voice, Mobility Management and RFSS Capability Polling Services – Addendum 3 – Interworking with an IWF.

During its final meeting of the year, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) board looked back at 2019 and laid out its priorities for 2020.

Netherlands-based 4G and 5G network experts Triple-9 joined TCCA. The Triple-9 team designs and develops a wide range of telecommunications applications and systems for public 4G and 5G networks, with a high guarantee of reliability, availability and security.

The Public Safety Technology Alliance (PSTA) released two new reports and added two working groups.

The final demonstration held by the DRIVER+ project in Warsaw, Poland, and the Hague, the Netherlands, 26 – 28 November, achieved all its key goals, according to the organizers.

AT&T pushed back the launch of mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) services on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) network, originally scheduled to launch by the end of 2019, until early next year.

Purdue University’s College of Engineering is working with AT&T to create a test bed for 5G-based research and development at its Purdue Research Lab. Located in the newly launched Indiana 5G Zone, the lab will use AT&T’s 5G+ millimeter wave (5G+) and commercially available multiaccess edge computing (MEC) technologies to help solve societal challenges such as disaster recovery in rural, agricultural areas and smart cities.

The European Emergency Number Association (EENA) released a position paper calling for technology companies to join with emergency services groups and providers to enhance citizen safety. In fact, the paper calls on tech companies for stronger cooperation before launching any new safety functionality.