Harris received orders for 1,540 AN/PRC-163 two-channel handheld radios and related equipment and services as part of the U.S. Army’s two-channel Leader radio indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract.

A coalition of Puerto Rican advocates, racial and social justice organizations, and media and telecommunications experts asked FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to appoint an independent commission to examine the causes for communications failures in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria last year.

The U.K. Home Office and Motorola Solutions reached an agreement on terms for the new direction of the U.K. Emergency Services Network (ESN), as well as an agreement on terms to extend the Airwave nationwide digital radio network.

The FCC issued a notice of violation to New Jersey Natural Gas Co., licensee of private land mobile station WQOS285, operating at various locations in New Jersey including Rockaway, New Jersey.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded phase two of a contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with a new personal communications system incorporating a miniaturized headset into a device that clips to a user’s back teeth.

The renewal of the Netherlands’ C2000 TETRA network is delayed, according to a letter from Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Ferd Grapperhaus.

Global critical communications association TCCA released a white paper on TETRA connectivity to Long Term Evolution (LTE).

The French Ministry of the Interior (MoI) released a request for information (RFI) about licensed shared access and air ground air communications. The call for competences relates to establishing a radio network of the future (RRF) for public protection and disaster response (PPDR) communications.

The U.K. Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) released a prior information notice (PIN) relating to the air to ground (A2G) aircraft communications system project. Air to ground has been an area flagged by ESMCP officials where more work is required for the Emergency Services Network (ESN).

Hytera Communications filed a motion to dismiss a copyright infringement claim that Motorola Solutions recently added to its theft of trade secrets lawsuit in Illinois district court.