The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $199,680 to Bastille Networks to deliver its internet of things (IoT) security solution offering real-time situational awareness of threats on connected devices. This is a phase four award under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program’s (SVIP’s) “Security for the Internet of Things” solicitation, which calls for novel ideas and technologies to improve situational awareness and security to detect, authenticate and update IoT components and systems.

Motorola Solutions made a strategic investment in GreenKey Technologies (GK), a provider of natural language processing for domain-specific workflows. Motorola Solutions is beginning to deploy its automated speech recognition technology across its command center suite.

The Energy Industry Symposium will take place 27 November at PMRExpo 2019 in Germany. The symposium is aimed at representatives of energy suppliers and municipal utilities and will examine issues of security-critical communications.

Raytheon’s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) completed full software and hardware development and entered the system integration and test phase. The milestone keeps GPS OCX, the enhanced ground control segment of a U.S. Air Force-led effort to modernize America's GPS system, on track to meet its June 2021 contractual delivery deadline.

Everbridge announced it is part of the team of providers that was awarded a five-year contract with the state of California to upgrade the state’s outdated 9-1-1 system to a next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) platform. The win represents the largest state contract in Everbridge’s history.

Ericsson completed the acquisition of the antenna and filter division of Kathrein. Ericsson announced the purchase in February.

The National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) 4.2 release candidate 1 (RC1) is available for public review and comment through Oct. 7.

Beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) unmanned aerial system (UAS) operations are key for future commercial use cases, including public safety, industrial inspection and urban air mobility. Frequentis has partnered with mobile network connectivity specialist and start-up, Dimetor, to enable network connectivity for command and control (C2) and payload data links to ensure reliable and consistent data sharing.

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.