Italtel and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy’s national research council, signed a new framework agreement to promote research, knowledge exchange and innovation within the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector.

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) and SecuLore Solutions were selected to complete a dynamic 9-1-1 network discovery for all public-safety answering points (PSAPs) in Maryland. A second component of the project is to complete an in-depth cybersecurity evaluation of its PSAPs with the goal of protecting them against external and internal threats.

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its second quarter of fiscal 2018, its Command & Control Technologies group, which is part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, received a three year contract award valued at approximately $123.6 million to provide ongoing sustainment services for the AN/TSC-198A Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-classified Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point (SNAP) very small aperture terminals (VSATs).

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry established a new Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response (CESER) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). President Trump’s fiscal year 2019 (FY19) budget request included $96 million in funding for the office to bolster DOE's efforts in cybersecurity and energy security.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released a position paper on the European Commission proposal of Cybersecurity Act (Regulation 2017/0225). ETSI said that some points should be further elaborated and clarified in the proposed regulation.

Robbins-Gioia, (RG) received a sole-source, three-year contract for the sustainment of the Emergency Management Command and Control System (EMC2) for the U.S. Air Force.

Trump Administrations officials are considering a plan for a government-controlled 5G network, while FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he opposes any proposal for the federal government to build and operate a nationwide 5G network.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a document on Long Term Evolution (LTE) security.

In light of the new European directive on network and information security (NIS) becoming national law, Airbus in Germany is offering a new cybersecurity service for professional mobile radio (PMR) network operators.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Cyber Security Division’s identity, credential and access management (ICAM) team awarded Concurrent Technologies Corp. (CTC) a one-year contract worth nearly $1.8 million to support a technology that CTC developed on previous FEMA contracts. The Accountability Tracking System (ATS) is a mobile, electronic validation system used to identify personnel during emergency response situations.