Motorola Solutions has unveiled a handheld radio offering the company designed with broadband features to help firefighters transmit data and voice communications.

Jason Winkler, most recently senior vice president of finance for products and sales group at Motorola Solutions, has been promoted to executive VP and chief financial officer.

Motorola Solutions has secured certifications from the National Security Agency and NSA’s partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to offer an LTE device to government agencies. The company said Thursday its LEX L11 technology is compliant with the National Information Assurance Partnership's Common Criteria Certification and approved under the National Security Agency's Commercial Solutions for Classified Program.

Motorola Solutions has helped the U.S. Air Force implement security camera systems at a military installation in Bellevue, Neb., to support remote monitoring of aircraft takeoff and landing activities up to three miles away.

Motorola Solutions has released a Project 25 radio offering designed with a virtual assistant that will work to help first responders receive information in the field and operate the device through voice commands.

Motorola Solutions has invested in Chicago-based speech recognition system developer GreenKey Technologies to help the latter build up its technology, resource and deployment processes in the public safety sector.

Motorola Solutions has opened a college campus innovation center in Illinois that will help undergraduate and graduate students apply skills to technological development.

Motorola Solutions will enter its radio-based broadband service into initial commercial deployment with the Federal Communications Commission.

Motorola Solutions is offering new integrated call control software designed to help first responders manage information by integrating call handling and computer-aided dispatch into a single, unified workstation.

Mahesh Saptharishi, formerly chief technology officer of Avigilon, has been appointed to the same role at Motorola Solutions.

Motorola Solutions and Sierra Wireless have partnered to offer an LTE broadband communications service intended to help first responders communicate and share data inside vehicles while on the way to their missions.

Chicago, Ill.-based telecommunications firm Motorola has selected Aviat Networks to support the former’s statewide emergency response network modernization effort in Florida. Milpitas, Calif.-based Aviat will deliver wireless backhaul platforms and services for Motorola’s P25 network project in collaboration with Florida’s Department of Management Services, Motorola said Monday. Robert Marshall, Motorola’s …

Motorola Solutions has chosen Microsoft‘s Azure Government to support a software platform for public safety agencies to manage applications in a cloud computing environment. The partnership seeks to leverage both companies’ offerings to help agencies run hybrid architectures designed for use on premise or in the cloud, Motorola Solutions said Monday. …

LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Motorola Solutions have partnered to develop a joint technology offering for government clients to gather, access and analyze public safety data. The partnership will incorporate data and analytics technology from LexisNexis into a Motorola-made software platform in an effort to accelerate the public information collection process, Motorola said Thursday. Both companies expect to …

The Florida Department of Management Services has selected Motorola Solutions to build a radio system to facilitate public safety communications throughout the state. Motorola said Monday it would provide the ASTRO 25 land mobile radio technology and manage Project 25 as part of the billion-dollar Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System. ASTRO 25 will work to help federal, …