The Australasian Critical Communications Forum and Wray Castle will conduct a training course on private and mission-critical broadband technologies. [ + ]

Thales has been chosen by the French defence procurement agency to lead a second part of the ground segment of the Syracuse IV system for the French armed forces. [ + ]

Zetron has been awarded a $4 million contract by Victoria's Country Fire Authority for the supply of a new command and control system. [ + ]

Codan Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in US-based company Domo Tactical Communications, for the sum of $114 million. [ + ]

Communications and cloud industry expert Michael Tessler joins BAI Communications' board to help drive the company's expansion strategy. [ + ]

Slovenia's Ministry of Interior has chosen a consortium headed by Airbus to deploy a new TETRA radio network for the country's state authorities and police forces. [ + ]

Motorola Solutions has been selected to be the main contractor to design and build a deployable, TETRA/LTE communications network for the German Armed Forces. [ + ]

Panorama Antennas' Australian subsidiary shifted its operations to Kardinya in Perth late last year. [ + ]

Inspections of float-free EPIRBs will be conducted by the Australian Maritime Safety Agency to help operators comply with new requirements. [ + ]

Safe Work Australia has issued new guidance for inspecting and maintaining elevating work platforms, which were involved in nine fatalities from 2015 to 2019. [ + ]

HMAS Adelaide's Communication and Information Systems sailors and Army signallers have been bridging the gap between the ship and personnel ashore in Fiji. [ + ]

The FCC's Enforcement Bureau has issued an official Enforcement Advisory warning against the use of radio devices or services for criminal activities. [ + ]

Based out of London, O'Reilly's role will be focused on accelerating the expansion of the company's neutral host solutions. [ + ]

Telcos and other wireless providers operating on frequencies being taken back for 5G need to devise a new strategy to keep their networks up and running. [ + ]

A detailed overview of developments in 3GPP Releases 16 and 17, as well as 5G standardisation, features in a white paper newly released by 5G Americas. [ + ]