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.

Mission-critical communications are called that for a good reason, which is that they cannot fail regardless of the circumstances. But, fail they do, for all sorts of reasons. A good continuity of operations plan is key to ensuring the failure doesn’t impact the ability to complete your mission.

Tyler Technologies announced that the Brownsville and Laredo police departments in Texas selected Tyler’s New World public-safety and Socrata data platform solutions. The solutions will enable data-driven policing and help the agencies improve information sharing with neighboring police departments in the region.

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) is seeking comment on a request by an Illinois water company to share public-safety frequencies.

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.

The Ministry of Interior of Slovenia selected a consortium composed of Airbus, Telekom Slovenije and Iskratel for the digital transformation of the telecommunications, transport, public safety and energy industries and the deployment of a TETRA digital radio infrastructure.

The FCC entered into an agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to support NSF’s Spectrum Innovation Initiative.

A coalition of public-safety and critical infrastructure organizations sent a letter to the FCC asking the commission to pause any certifications for commercial devices to be used on 6 GHz spectrum.