The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) awarded Verizon Public Sector two contracts worth $34.6 million through the federal government’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract vehicle. Verizon will provide voice and data services and will supply a number of DOE facilities, including its Washington, D.C., headquarters.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program released 11 topics for the new Small Business innovation Research (SBIR) 22.1 Pre-solicitation.

The National Institute of Science and Technology’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program announced a funding opportunity for its Public-Safety Innovation Accelerator Program (PSIAP) 2022.

The deployment and installation process for an emergency responder radio communications systems (ERRCS) in a luxury apartment in San Francisco highlights some of the challenges and obstacles with in-building communications.

Today, as technologies, services, data and people interact in ever more complex ways, the potential danger from cyber threats has moved beyond traditional networks and computer systems. As the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attacks and the SolarWinds hack showed, a cyberattack against the nation’s critical infrastructure can have devastating impacts across one or more of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors and produce cascading disruptions that impact multiple sub-sectors. Determined adversaries consistently find innovative methods to exploit vulnerabilities. To stay ahead, we need a rapid, streamlined way to develop, test and utilize cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions.

The Canadian Armed Forces ordered more than 1,000 of L3Harris Technologies’ compact team radio radios to enhance communications from the tactical edge all the way to command headquarters.

Funded by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Mission Critical Services - Testing as a Service (MCS-TaaSting) project announced that 60% of mission-critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) conformance test cases have been formally verified.

The Secretariat of Public Security and Social Defense (SEGUP) of Pará, Brazil, chose Motorola Solutions to modernize its mission-critical communications to connect all public-safety agencies across the country’s second-largest state, Pará.

The Project 25 (P25) Technology Interest Group (PTIG) held its annual meeting October 28 and elected its board of directors and slate of officers.

The Project 25 (P25) Compliance Assessment Program (CAP) released a new draft testing requirements compliance assessment bulletin (CAB).