The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) published an updated checklist of voluntary industry best practices as a reference in preparation for, response to and recovery from a pandemic event.

Comtech Telecommunications received a contract valued up to $235.7 million to provide the U.S. Army with ongoing system refurbishments, sustainment services and baseband equipment.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) worked with local law enforcement officials and the NFL to help ensure the safety and security of employees, players and fans during Super Bowl LV. Dozens of federal agencies and components, including DHS, contributed to security measures seen and unseen during the Super Bowl.

As the critical communications industry gradually transitions, we are expecting to see it complement or replace highly reliable and secure TETRA and other radio networks with LTE technologies.

Many cities around the world are planning for, purchasing and bringing online their smart safe city programs and technology systems to integrate their public safety, health, city services and citizen engagement capabilities to better serve and safeguard citizens.

Verizon is providing critical communications support for Super Bowl 55 in Tampa Bay, Florida, in a year where the Super Bowl will look quite different due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) announced the initial members of its No Noise task force.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) continued its after-action review of the bombing of an AT&T building in Nashville, Tennessee, meeting last week with public-safety officials and FirstNet subscribers in states that were affected by the service outage.

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.

In its financial results for 2020, AT&T said it now has more than 1.9 million FirstNet connections and more than 15,000 agencies are now using the FirstNet service.