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Public Safety | Government

March 11, 2019 | Comments

Motorola Solutions acquired Avtec, a provider of dispatch solutions for public-safety and commercial customers. Details of the transaction, which closed March 11, were not released.

March 07, 2019 | Comments

CentralSquare, formed last year by the merger of Superion, TriTech Software Systems and Zuercher Technologies, announced its new executive leadership team.

March 07, 2019 | Comments

Harris named Exacom as Harris’ preferred voice logging recorder (VLR) provider for critical communications systems.

March 07, 2019 | Comments

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate(S&T) highlighted the Information Sharing Assessment Tool (ISAT), an easy-to-use, free self-assessment tool for first responders.

March 07, 2019 | Comments

The FCC deleted certain rules related to the opt-out provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 that have been rendered moot by the passage of time. Specifically, the commission deleted those rules adopted to implement the “opt-out” provisions of the legislation, in light of the fact that no state or territory chose to exercise that option within the statutory timeframe.

March 07, 2019 | Comments

The deadline for submitting comments on the Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) draft Compliance Assessment Bulletin (CAB) was extended to March 31. Issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), this draft CAB addresses P25 baseline Inter RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI) and Console Subsystem Interface (CSSI) conformance testing requirements.

March 06, 2019 | Comments

The Saratoga County (New York) Sheriff’s Office launched the full suite of CentralSquare Public Safety Enterprise powered by Inform. This launch connects Saratoga’s system with the Albany County Sheriff’s Office and Rensselaer County Bureau of Public Safety, two New York agencies that are already using CentralSquare systems.

March 06, 2019 | Comments

MobileIron and NetMotion Software announced a collaborative technology partnership to enable secure, reliable access to mission-critical mobile apps and real-time data for mobile workforces. Customers can now take advantage of the deep integration of MobileIron’s unified endpoint management (UEM) platform and NetMotion Software’s range of mobile productivity and intelligence solutions.

March 06, 2019 | Comments

Verizon announced five participating companies for the first cohort of the 5G First Responder Lab, an innovation incubator that will give first responder technology companies from around the globe access to 5G technology to develop, test and refine 5G solutions for public safety. The creation of the 5G First Responder Lab was announced in November.

March 06, 2019 | Comments

Interworking between LMR and Long Term Evolution (LTE) is feasible without the Project 25 (P25) Inter RF Subsystem Interface (ISSI), according to research from Catalyst Communications Technologies following a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant to research interworking.