The Israel Police selected Siklu mmWave radios as the agency’s main wireless fiber solution. These systems were selected for nationwide deployments as well as temporary events for the purpose of backhauling high-definition (HD) video surveillance systems and advanced sensors.

At least 65 people around the world have been rescued by drones during the past year, according to a new report issued Monday by drone firm DJI. The report gathers accounts from news outlets and public-safety agencies around the world and includes 27 separate incidents on five continents.

BDBOS, the federal agency for public-safety digital radio in Germany, operates the world’s largest TETRA digital radio network. BDBOS is in the process of upgrading the network to make it suitable for future needs and create a technological platform for broadband services.

xG Technology announced that its IMT Vislink business received orders valued at more than $750,000 for high-definition (HD) airborne video downlink system (AVDS) equipment and related services from law enforcement agencies in Virginia, Massachusetts, Oregon and California.

Raytheon announced an alliance with Virsec to bring commercial cybersecurity tools to global government and critical infrastructure customers. Combined with Raytheon’s decades of cybersecurity defense expertise, Virsec's patented Trusted Execution technology protects networks by detecting deviations in software applications caused by cyber intrusions.

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released version 1.1 of its Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, more widely known as the Cybersecurity Framework.

The FCC proposed prohibiting money from the $8.5 billion a year Universal Service Fund (USF) from being spent on equipment or services from suppliers that raise national security concerns. Chinese firms are not named in the FCC notice but several Chinese firms have been targeted by the U.S. government as security threats.<

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released its 2018 Mobile Security Research and Development (R&D) Program Guide that introduces the technology projects, goals and objectives and their alignment with DHS and federal mobile security strategies and priorities.

In March 2017, the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) recommended that communications service providers implement certain security measures to help prevent exploitation of carrier Signaling System 7 (SS7) network infrastructure. These recommendations were intended to increase awareness of SS7 signaling vulnerabilities and included risk mitigation strategies for the continued use of SS7.

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.