The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced two new security directives and additional guidance for voluntary measures to strengthen cybersecurity across the transportation sector in response to the ongoing cybersecurity threat to surface transportation systems and associated infrastructure. These actions are among several steps DHS is taking to increase the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure.

XL Axiata, a converged network operator in Indonesia, selected the Viavi Solutions ONMSi optical network management system to increase visibility into its fiber network.

Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown discussed an extension for its Airwave contract with the U.K. Home Office and a U.K. investigation into its dual roles in Airwave network and the Emergency Services Network (ESN) project during an appearance at the Credit Suisse conference November 30.

The FCC granted a request from the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) to extend the comment and reply comment deadlines in its ongoing network reliability proceeding by 10 days.

The nation should bolster research and development of systems that distribute accurate time via fiber-optic cable and radio as part of the effort to back up GPS and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure that depends on it, according to a new report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

T-Mobile and the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau reached an agreement to resolve the commission’s investigation into whether the carrier violated the FCC’s 9-1-1 rules during an outage in June 2020.

Nokia was selected to build a secure, private LTE network for Bahrain’s Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) to modernize its distribution network for improved efficiency and performance.

The deployment and installation process for an emergency responder radio communications systems (ERRCS) in a luxury apartment in San Francisco highlights some of the challenges and obstacles with in-building communications.

The Secretariat of Public Security and Social Defense (SEGUP) of Pará, Brazil, chose Motorola Solutions to modernize its mission-critical communications to connect all public-safety agencies across the country’s second-largest state, Pará.

Public safety, business and critical infrastructure officials emphasized the importance of backup power and collaboration between wireless providers and energy providers during a field hearing on disaster communications that was a part of the FCC’s October 26 meeting.