Charleston County (South Carolina) Consolidated 9-1-1 Center signed a contract with RapidDeploy to replace its on-premises CAD system with RapidDeploy’s cloud-native dispatch platform. The move to a cloud-native platform will give Charleston County access to modern features like real-time traffic information and incident feeds, allowing a faster and more informed emergency response, a statement said.

President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate John Chase Johnson to be the FCC inspector general.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai presented his colleagues with final rules to launch a $20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The rules, which will be voted on by the commission at its Jan. 30 open meeting, would establish a two-phased process to provide funding for the deployment of high-speed broadband in areas of the United States where there is not fixed broadband service that meets the FCC’s minimum speed standard 25/3 Megabits per second (Mbps).

Motorola Solutions named Michael Kaae as regional vice president of sales for Europe. Kaae, who has more than 20 years of technology sales leadership experience, will lead Motorola Solutions’ direct government and commercial sales business across Europe, including Russia.

Mutualink’s board of directors appointed Joe Mazzarella president. Mark Hatten will continue in his current role as CEO and chairman of the board.

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) announced it acquired Black & Veatch’s Public Safety (BVPS) consulting division. The value of the acquisition was not released.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) funded the development of guidance and tools to help communities measure their “capability quotient (CQ),” the readiness to respond to risk and to respond to disruptions of any kind.

Dali Wireless filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement Corning Optical Communications in the U.S. District Court for the Western District for North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

Infrastructure Networks completed an expansion of its private Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, adding capacity in existing areas, doubling geographic coverage and upgrading the network to be 5G ready.

Ondas Networks completed deployment of the final phase of a three-phase pilot program for a North American Class 1 railroad. The railroad is using Ondas Networks’ standards-based FullMAX software-defined radio (SDR) platform for fixed and mobile data applications in multiple regions throughout the United States.