Tag Archives: IoT

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened its registration portal for the augmented reality and internet of things increments of the CHARIoT Challenge.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is offering over $1 million in prizes to participants in a competition focused on developing augmented-reality and internet of things technologies to aid first responders, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

The chairmen and ranking members of House and Senate Armed Services Committees have asked the Federal Communications Commission to retract its approval of Ligado Networks’ application saying the company’s proposal poses a threat to the country’s GPS capabilities, economy and national security.

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday approved Ligado’s application to use the L-band spectrum to field a low-power terrestrial network in support of 5G and internet-of-things services.

The Federal Communications Commission issued a draft order that would free up the L-band spectrum to facilitate the deployment of 5G, broadband communications and other wireless services, C4ISRNET reported Thursday.

Everbridge has launched its new critical event management (CEM) capabilities across the Internet of Things (IoT) for corporate, government and healthcare organizations to protect people, assets, operations, supply chain and brand from critical events such as coronavirus (COVID-19), the company announced on Tuesday. 

BlackBerry Limited has appointed Majorie Dickman as the company’s first chief government affairs and public policy officer to lead regulatory affairs and operations, the company announced on Tuesday. 

Zscaler has released a report titled, “IoT Devices in the Enterprise 2019: Shadow IoT Threats Emerge,” that has analyzed the exponential growth in IoT traffic volume, growth of IoT-based malware, IoT cloud transaction volume and how new threats have emerged within the Federal IT Enterprise.

CenturyLink has joined the Networking Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program to help customers better connect, migrate, manage and optimize their Microsoft Azure environments, the company announced on Monday. 

CyberX, an IoT security company, has collaborated with Microsoft Azure Security Center for IoT to develop a unified view of security across managed and unmanaged IoT devices, Microsoft announced on Friday.