TCCA announced the shortlist for its 2022 International Critical Communications Awards (ICCA). The award winners will be presented 21 June in Barcelona.

JSC "NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" (KTZ), the national operator of the main railway network of the Republic of Kazakhstan, plans to fully adopt TETRA digital radio communications as a standard.

L3Harris Technologies partnered with FirstNet, Built with AT&T to connect the FirstNet network with Florida’s Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) P25 network. The connection between the two networks is made by leveraging L3Harris’ BeOn mobile application.

In a meeting with the FCC, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) urged caution with moving forward with any changes to the rules governing the T-band as requested by a petition of rulemaking from the National Wireless Communications Council (NWCC).

In responses to a U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation of Motorola’s dual roles in the Airwave network and the Emergency Services Network (ESN), EE and the U.K. Home Office filed responses, expressing concerns about Motorola’s two roles. Motorola also filed its own response to the CMA’s investigation.

Dereck Orr, the chief of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR) looks at the research that the division has completed over the last couple of years.

Few people not directly involved in the technical complexities understand quite how much work goes on behind the scenes to ensure the seamless operation of mission-critical networks. While today’s narrowband networks running on TETRA, P25 and others are well-established self-contained entities, the emerging critical broadband services over 4G LTE and 5G networks create massive complexity in terms of interconnection, security and a host of other areas.

The final phase of the BroadWay pre-commercial procurement (PCP) reached an important technical milestone that demonstrated the challenges defined by practitioners are technically feasible.

Google’s recent move to purchase Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm for $5.4 billion, highlights the growing concerns around cybersecurity for private and government organizations alike. No entity or country is fully immune to cyber attacks.

SCADAfence, a provider of cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) and internet of things (IoT) environments, partnered with Keysight Technologies to integrate Keysight's Threat Simulator Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) solution with its advanced OT Security Platform. The integration allows security teams to run simulations of attacks waged against converged information technology and operational technology (IT-OT) networks to enhance their security posture.