The Florida Department of Education (DOE) selected Motorola Solutions as a preferred provider for the deployment of a statewide mobile panic alert system for Florida’s K-12 schools.

The Country Fire Authority (CFA) awarded Zetron a $4 million contract for Zetron’s ACOM command and control system to be used as the radio communications platform for district command centers and incident control centers across the state of Victoria, Australia. The CFA is a volunteer fire service with more than 1,200 brigades organized among 21 districts across Victoria.

As of February 17, the strong winter storm affecting Texas and Oklahoma had led to 147 total outages for communications networks, according to information from the FCC.

The FCC is seeking nominations for the Ending 9-1-1 Fee Diversion Now Strike Force. Nominations are due March 12.

RapidSOS partnered with Hexagon's Safety & Infrastructure division, a provider of CAD software and public-safety solutions, to give emergency communications centers across the U.K. access to life-saving data.

The National 911 Program and the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) released a summary of 2020 key enacted legislation.

The FCC proposed rules to address 9-1-1 fee diversion, the practice by some states and jurisdictions of using the 9-1-1 fees that consumers pay on their phone bills for non-9-1-1 purposes.

Mission-critical communications are called that for a good reason, which is that they cannot fail regardless of the circumstances. But, fail they do, for all sorts of reasons. A good continuity of operations plan is key to ensuring the failure doesn’t impact the ability to complete your mission.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) jointly announced that the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute will spearhead a $268,000 project to develop interoperability standards for CAD systems used by the nation’s public-safety agencies.

Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said the FCC will consider a rulemaking seeking comment on how to prevent 9-1-1 fee diversion.