pdvWireless CEO Morgan O’Brien told potential investors May 21 the company needs an additional $100 million to $150 million to carry out its 900 MHz realignment plan and offer broadband services in the spectrum. The company had $77 million cash on hand March 31.

Dyfed-Powys Police is the first U.K. police force to deploy Axon's in-car camera technology. The force is rolling out Axon Fleet 2 across 31 vehicles including armed response and traffic vehicles. The order for this five-year contract was received in the first quarter of 2019 and shipped in the second quarter.

The National Pre-Hospital Health Emergency Center selected BASS Systems to equip more than 500 ambulances in Moldova with TETRA digital two-way radios from Motorola Solutions. The communications solutions enable medical staff to provide better medical services to Moldovan citizens.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in coordination with the FCC, will conduct a nationwide test of the emergency alert system (EAS) Aug. 7 at 2:20 p.m. EDT, with a backup date of Aug. 21.

There is widespread disagreement among public-safety groups and industry on the best way to deliver indoor wireless location data for 9-1-1 calls to dispatch centers from wireless providers based on comments filed with the FCC.

An AT&T executive said the company expects to hit its next two First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) buildout milestones at least six months in advance.

Regional wireless operator C Spire is offering a free public-safety data priority service designed to help local and state emergency first responders send and receive critical mobile data communications during a crisis or natural disaster.

Westell Technologies announced results for its fiscal 2019 fourth quarter and fiscal year (FY) ended March 31. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $9.7 million, a $1 million decrease from the $10.7 million in revenue in the third quarter.

The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) announced two new band 14 cell sites — one on the Red Cliff Reservation in Wisconsin and one in Preston County, West Virginia.

Catalyst Communications Technologies was awarded a contract valued at up to $1 million by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to develop an interworking solution to enable mission-critical communications between first responders using LMR systems and cellular devices over Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks with push-to-talk (PTT) applications. This contract is a phase two award and extends the research and development (R&D) activities initially funded by DHS in a phase one award in 2018.