More than 40 Motorola Solutions personnel helped raise funds during Victoria Police’s annual Blue Ribbon Day fundraiser. The employees collected donations at three of the main railway stations in Melbourne, Australia.

Axon announced that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) will outfit officers and agents across its law enforcement and investigative agency with Axon Body 2 cameras backed by the digital evidence management system, Axon Evidence.

The Croatian Ministry of the Interior (MoI) awarded Motorola Solutions partners King ICT and MICRO-LINK a tender to expand the coverage of Croatia’s nationwide TETRA network and integrate civil protection agencies into the network.

AT&T named Jason Porter senior vice president, FirstNet program at AT&T, and announced that Chris Sambar, who previously led the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) program, will move to AT&T’s network and technology team as executive vice president — AT&T technology operations.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $200,000 to CryptoMove to continue to enhance its dynamic defense data protection system for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) security. This is the final phase of a project that was awarded under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) sUAS capabilities solicitation.

The Fourth ETSI MCX Plugtests concluded with a success rate of 95% in the validation of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mission-critical services vendor interoperability. These tests are essential to ensure seamless access to mission-critical services over 4G networks across different vendors’ products and implementations.

As the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) continues in its second year of service for public-safety agencies across the country, coverage will help determine the long-term success of the network and AT&T’s contract to build out a nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN).

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) was awarded a contract to provide communications network and system management and monitoring services to the public-safety agencies served by the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council (LRGVDC) in Texas.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an update to the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP). The NECP is the nation’s strategic plan for coordinating and advancing emergency communications to establish and maintain operability, interoperability and continuity.

A new report from a device testing company found Long Term Evolution (LTE) devices for public safety have speech intelligibility concerns.