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 British Transport Police (BTP) is leveraging the NICE Investigate digital evidence management solution to drive digital transformation across its operations and help keep U.K. railways safe from crime.

Ericsson announced the opening of its Global Utilities Innovation Center at its facility in Plano, Texas. The new fully functional facility consists of a purpose-built operating lab and demo environment locations that will allow utilities to engage with Ericsson and its partners to solve real-world connectivity challenges.

GeoComm, a public-safety location intelligence platform provider, announced a new partnership with NextNav, a provider of z-axis vertical positioning, to enhance floor-aware indoor mapping for E9-1-1.

During its quarterly meeting May 4, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) approved reinvestment into the FirstNet network that will help improve indoor coverage for first responders.

Federated Wireless closed on an additional $14 million in Series D funding, bringing the total raised in the round to $72 million.

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 U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a new prize competition series to advance the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) by first responders for indoor search and rescue (SAR) operations.

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.