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Federal Engineering to Help with Radio Licensing in New Jersey Fire District

March 18, 2019 | Comments

Franklin Township (New Jersey) Fire District 1 awarded Federal Engineering a contract to provide FCC licensing assistance for the district’s public-safety radio system.

March 18, 2019 | Comments

GeoLinks, a California-based telecommunications provider and competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) public utility, installed and provided high-speed, low-latency, symmetrical data connections to 88 high-definition, pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras throughout Southern and Northern California to provide critical situational awareness during wildfire events. In collaboration with ALERTWildfire; University of California San Diego; University of Nevada, Reno; CENIC; Southern California Edison (SCE); and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), the multihazard camera technology provides data related to fire ignition points critical in informing situational awareness and wildfire response.

March 18, 2019 | Comments

Iowa legislators overruled a local county board decision that would have stopped construction of an AT&T cell tower to be part of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) network in the state.

March 15, 2019 | Comments

ErvoCom chose Damm Cellular Systems TETRA infrastructure as part of its communications solution for the complete city tram lines in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The tram line will link the municipalities of Sacaba, Cercado, Colcapirhua, Quillacollo, Vinto and Sipe Sipe in the Department of Cochabamba, providing transport services to more than 1 million people.

March 14, 2019 | Comments

Most of the current 450,000 First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) subscribers were former AT&T customers, but the carrier plans to capitalize on its FirstNet contract by increasing its first responder market share and adding friends and family of FirstNet subscribers, said AT&T Senior Executive Vice President John Stephens.

March 14, 2019 | Comments

A pair of cities located in the southern Dallas metro area said a hacker or group of hackers targeted and activated their combined tornado warning system. As a result, the system is not operational, officials said.

March 13, 2019 | Comments

The Metropolitan Police Service selected Sepura’s SC2 series of TETRA terminals to replace its existing fleet in an agreement forming one of the largest single orders ever received by the U.K.-based TETRA device manufacturer.

March 13, 2019 | Comments

Springfield and Clark County, Ohio contracted Motorola Solutions to provide command center software to take incoming 9-1-1 calls, share and manage critical incident information, and communicate across agencies to coordinate a response.

March 12, 2019 | Comments

Norway and Sweden are the first two countries in the world to connect their national emergency communications networks. The Frequentis control room solution allows all Norwegian emergency centers to seamlessly manage both domestic and foreign resources on Norway’s Nødnett public-safety network.

March 12, 2019 | Comments

NGA 911 launched a next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) network that includes an emergency services IP network (ESInet) and next-generation core services (NGCS) for local 9-1-1 authorities across the state of Louisiana.