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Peru City Deploys TETRA Network from Hytera Mobilfunk

October 06, 2017 | Comments

Hytera Mobilfunk in cooperation with its distributor Nexus Technology and Tactical IT deployed a TETRA network for the city guards of the provincial municipality of Puno in Peru.

October 06, 2017 | Comments

The FCC granted a request filed by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) for a temporary waiver to permit amateur data transmissions at a higher symbol rate than is permitted by the commission’s rules to facilitate hurricane relief.

October 03, 2017 | Comments

Shifting business models, emerging technologies that redefine IT and the drive to implement digital government lead a long list of challenges facing state CIOs, according to new research released at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) annual conference.

September 22, 2017 | Comments

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released a report summarizing the themes found in the responses to its “Request for Comments on Promoting Stakeholder Action Against Botnets and Other Automated Threats.”

September 14, 2017 | Comments

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) announced a cybersecurity specialism for information, communications and technology (ICT) professionals working in this discipline.

September 07, 2017 | Comments

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded funding to five research and development (R&D) projects that will enhance the secure use of mobile applications for the federal government.

September 01, 2017 | Comments

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced final allocations of $288 million for six fiscal year (FY) 2017 DHS competitive preparedness grant programs. These allocations, in addition to the more than $1.3 billion in non-competitive grant funding announced by DHS in June, total more than $1.6 billion in FY 2017 to assist states, urban areas, tribal and territorial governments, nonprofit agencies, and the private sector with preparedness efforts.

August 25, 2017 | Comments

The FCC encouraged communications service providers to implement the security countermeasures recommended by the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC), a federal advisory committee to the FCC, to prevent exploitation of carrier Signaling System 7 (SS7) network infrastructure.

August 21, 2017 | Comments

Working in partnership with UNICEF, Australia’s University of Adelaide researchers created a best-practice toolkit to help developing countries rapidly generate and implement life-saving communications plans in the event of local emergencies.

July 26, 2017 | Comments

Nearly 100 federal, state and local public-safety and private organizations gathered last week to test tactics and technologies to identify, locate and mitigate illegal jamming of communications systems, such as GPS, radio and wireless systems.