FCC meeting to focus on critical infrastructure protection

L3Harris continues to see market interest in solutions that leverage both LMR and LTE technology in multiple sectors as the company completes its first year of integration since the merger of Harris and L3 Technologies—an effort made more difficult by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic impacts. Nino DiCosmo, president of the L3Harris public-safety […]

A family-owned farming operation in rural Missouri is about to get a major upgrade. Thanks to the efforts of Trilogy Networks and its new Rural Cloud Initiative (RCI), the Hurst Greenery farm in Westboro, Missouri, is scheduled to become the nation’s first “farm of the future,” complete with edge computing-powered machine vision technologies running on […]

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  Stephanie Wildman, Cradlepoint’s NASPO program manager, outlines what public-safety agencies should consider when assessing total cost of ownership of technology equipment, as well as potential methods for purchasing, from traditional bidding processes to cooperative contracts. Wildman also highlights the value of grant funding and where even small agencies can secure the resources necessary to […]