The third-quarterly Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Plenary e-meetings of 2021 recently concluded. Participants spent considerable time on preliminary scoping of the Release 18 (R18) feature content and schedule.

Thales and Streamwide are joining forces to boost the security, confidentiality and integrity of mission-critical radio communications for emergency services, security forces and critical infrastructure providers.

Affini Technology received a contract for the provision, maintenance, repair and post design services of the radio system for the Dockyard Port of Clyde in Scotland, which includes Her Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde.

The FCC granted a request from the Michigan Department of Telecommunications Management and Budget asking for a waiver to share use of the Michigan Public Safety Communications System (MPSCS) with Consumer’s Energy.

The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) updated its Public-Safety Communications and Cyber Resiliency Toolkit to include new resources.

Floyd County, Virginia, selected Federal Engineering (FE) to provide analyses, recommendations, and direction for the countywide public-safety radio system.

The U.S. Army ordered 1,000 new L3Harris Technologies Falcon IV AN/PRC-171 compact team radios to ensure soldiers at any tactical level can transmit crucial information to command teams across an integrated network.

The Secretariat General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Expo 2020 Dubai to boost cross-border security coordination and communication between GCC nations, starting with a first proof-of-concept implementation between two members.

During this year’s International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) in Las Vegas vendors announced a variety of new products and services.

L3Harris Technologies received full-rate production orders for the U.S. Army’s Handheld Manpack and Small Form-Fit (HMS) program to provide advanced multichannel, multimission communications for the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN).