NextNav the availability of its software development kit (SDK) for the Pinnacle vertical positioning service on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) API Catalog, which is a curated catalog of public-safety-relevant application programming interfaces (APIs) and SDKs.

An initiative to interconnect three Pennsylvania regions via a fiber-optic communications network to improve emergency response was completed at the end of October. The project was supported by Mission Critical Partners (MCP).

ESChat announced it completed a migration of all its U.S. based public-safety customers to the Amazon AWS GovCloud environment. The migration was the final step in a suite of enhancements required for the company to facilitate nationwide interagency push-to-talk (PTT) communications between ESChat customers and traditional LMR users.

The second of the three-phase BroadWay Precommercial Procurement (PCP) began on 6 July when the group of procurers awarded contracts to three consortia that met all the technical and quality requirements of the call-off competition at the end of the first phase. In the second phase, the prototype phase, the consortia are led by Airbus DS, Frequentis and Leonardo.

During a speech at the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance’s (DSA) virtual Global Summit, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai touted the commission’s work to free up more space for wireless growth and development in multiple spectrum bands, as well as its work to develop more advanced spectrum sharing techniques.

The Fifth European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) MCX Plugtests saw a 95% success rate in its testing. While three of the previous four plugtests events were held in person and the fifth was originally planned to be in-person, the fifth event was held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) canceled two upcoming in-person events.

Officials from the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) adopted a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to guide joint standards development work undertaken by the two organizations when renewing a joint standard.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) released two standards and is seeking public comment on them.

Airbus presented its Tactilon Agnet 500 critical collaboration platform tailored to mobile network operators (MNOs) during Critical Communications Week (CCWeek), the digital version of Critical Communications World 2020.