Broward County, Florida, selected Motorola Solutions for a Project 25 (P25) network that will be interoperable with other agencies across the state. The new system will be a more efficient digital network and provide enhanced coverage in Broward County and with surrounding municipalities.

Harris received one of two five-year, $461 million ceiling, multiaward indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts to modernize the U.S. Army's mission-critical communications network. The contract was awarded in the first quarter of Harris’ fiscal 2018.

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) was selected to provide public-safety technology and facility consulting services to the city of Philadelphia, which recently kicked off a multiyear initiative to evolve its 9-1-1 infrastructure and facilities.

Teltronic, a subsidiary of Hytera Communications, was awarded a public tender by Metro Madrid to supply further TETRA onboard radio equipment for Madrid Metro, Spain, building on a relationship that began in 2003.

The Digital Private Mobile Radio (dPMR) Association said it has become aware of several two-way radio equipment manufacturers who have been using the dPMR trademark and logo with their products without authorization and passing the products off as compliant with European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) conformance and interoperability standards.

Motorola Solutions was chosen as the official radio communications supplier for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Queensland, Australia, 4 – 15 April. The global, 11-day sporting spectacular will attract 6,600 athletes and team officials from 70 nations and territories, 15,000 volunteers and be broadcast to a cumulative international audience of 1.5 billion.

Motorola Solutions argued that it is still within the statute of limitations and that it provided adequate information for Hytera Communications, in its response to Hytera’s motion to dismiss Motorola’s theft of trade secrets lawsuit.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Emergency Communications' (OEC) Border Interoperability Demonstration Project (BIDP) closeout reports are available. BIDP was a one-time $30 million grant program administered by OEC that focused on identifying solutions to interoperability along the northern and southern U.S. borders.

New research shows that more than 50 percent of government respondents say that public technology adoption should be stimulated, managed and aggregated at the local or city level. ABI Research conducted the business-to-business (B2B) technology survey of 455 U.S.-based companies that span nine verticals.

In comments filed June 22, the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) supported an FCC proposal to raise the de minimus regulatory fee threshold from $500 to $1,000 and recommended that the private land mobile radio (PLMR) service fee categories be eliminated.