The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) released a user survey to capture how companies, organizations and agencies use the “Standardization Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Version 2.0),” which was published by the ANSI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative (UASSC) in June 2020.

RapidSOS, Responder Corp, Orleans Parish Communication District and the Western Fire Chiefs Association received the $1 million Accelerate R2 Network Challenge grant funded by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with subject matter expertise from the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).

Valid8.com successfully executed an over-the-air (OTA) test of MCX as part of its Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard compliant testing solution for the mission-critical communications industry.

Verizon introduced Push-to-Talk Responder, a mission-critical, interoperable-ready solution that delivers a more efficient way for first responders to seamlessly share and receive data, voice and, in the future, video content to more comprehensively respond to a crisis.

Senators focused on rural coverage and what the government can do to help get tower sites built on federal land during a Senate Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet hearing on the progress of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Sept. 24.

ASTM International and the DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, an official program of Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), announced a new strategic initiative designed to standardize the training and use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and related technology across the public-safety and emergency services sectors around the world.

Power and telecommunication codependency risks are nothing new. Yet in California, the landscape has evolved so as to make this an acute concern.

Motorola Solutions announced that it has made a new service available to the public safety market. CommandCentral Citizen Input is designed to help 9-1-1 call takers to better engage with citizens in their time of need. Citizen input is a cloud-based service that allows citizens calling or texting 9-1-1 to send video, photographs and recordings of an incident to the public-safety answering point (PSAP), using controlled and permission-based procedures.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DoC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a crowdsourcing challenge to spur new methods to ensure that important public-safety data sets can be de-identified to protect individual privacy.

The FCC proposed making 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum in the 3.45 – 3.55 GHz band available for 5G deployment across the contiguous United States. The commission also adopted rules for, and proposed additional changes to, the broader 3.3 – 3.55 GHz band.