Leitstelle Tirol, the statewide command-and-control center for fire, rescue and other emergency response services in the federal state of Tyrol, Austria, selected CAD software from Hexagon’s Safety & Infrastructure division to support call-takers and dispatchers and optimize public-safety answering point (PSAP) processes.

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) announced it acquired Black & Veatch’s Public Safety (BVPS) consulting division. The value of the acquisition was not released.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) funded the development of guidance and tools to help communities measure their “capability quotient (CQ),” the readiness to respond to risk and to respond to disruptions of any kind.

Amateur radio encryption, proposed spectrum changes, the ongoing legal battle between Motorola Solutions and Hytera Communications, and the future of LMR topped the most read online stories for MissionCritical Communications in 2019.

Texas A&M University’s Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center is gearing up for its Winter Institute workshop and exercise, later this month in College Station and Disaster City, Texas.

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) awarded L3Harris Technologies a five-year-with-options $100 million contract to upgrade and extend the service life of its existing fleet of about 550 L3Harris very small aperture terminals (VSAT). The contract was received in December.

The FCC reminded 800 MHz licensees engaged in rebanding that licensees must submit notifications of unresolved disputes or executed completion certifications by Jan. 15.

A new report from a geographic information system (GIS) group highlighted the need for updated and accurate GIS data to support next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) deployments. The report compiles data from 41 state survey responses sent to states in mid-2019 and assigns states a letter grade based on several factors related to GIS maturity.

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) announced that comments in response to the initial designation of Huawei Technologies and ZTE as covered companies in the “Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through FCC Programs” report and order are due Feb. 3.

The ongoing legal battle between Motorola Solutions and Hytera Communications and the rollout and planning of critical broadband networks around the world topped the most read online stories for RadioResource International in 2019.