Des Moines, Iowa, selected Federal Engineering to provide professional services to develop options and recommendations for the city to replace it legacy analog mobile radio system.

Several vendors announced new products at the 2017 International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) conference in Las Vegas this week.

Hytera Communications said it is “ready to respond vigorously to Motorola Solutions’ allegations” and is fully confident that Hytera will be vindicated in U.S. federal court, one week after Motorola filed complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Hytera for allegedly infringing Motorola patents and stealing trade secrets.

Star Solutions and SLA’s ESChat partnered to enable Star Solutions' deployable Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks in public-safety 700 MHz band 14 with ESChat's secure push-to-talk (PTT) platform.

Elbit Systems was awarded a $100 million contract by the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) for the supply of advanced radio systems. The company will manufacture and provide hundreds of radio systems during five years.

The Project 25 (P25) Compliance Assessment Program (CAP) encryption requirements compliance assessment bulletin (CAB) is finalized and publicly available.

Airbus is upgrading the Federal Public Security Secretariat’s TETRA network in Mexico City. The Mexican national public-safety agency Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Distrito Federal will soon profit from a new network with larger capacity to meet the needs of around 30,000 end users.

SLA said its ESChat network is now able to offer enhanced quality of service (QoS) to Verizon Wireless U.S. private network traffic management (PNTM) subscribers.

Motorola Solutions filed complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Hytera Communications of Shenzhen, China, for allegedly infringing its patents and stealing trade secrets. Motorola Solutions is seeking to stop Hytera’s sales and import of the infringing products into the United States.

EF Johnson Technologies, a JVCKENWOOD company, selected the ESChat application from SLA for a secure push to talk (PTT) over Long Term Evolution (LTE) system for use at the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport.