Medical information will soon be shooting across Western Australia's regional expanses, with the development of a new AU$21.3 million medical communications network which will cover 2.55 million ...

The fireground has evolved dramatically over the last two decades. We’ve witnessed improvements in personal protective equipment (PPE) that permit us to operate in hotter environments, and this, in ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 30, 2014) -- Volunteers from MARS are helping the Army improve its communications capabilities. They aren't little green Martians from science fiction novels, ...

Once exclusively a tool for the military, today's highly accurate Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers provide the ability to know where you are instantly, with an accuracy of within 10 meters ...

Under the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) comms-on-the-move program, radios that lose line-of-sight communications automatically shift to satellite transmission. This is done so that ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. When Hurricane Helene took out power and cellular communication ...

Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early ...

More Americans than ever have been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as amateur radio operators, and those in the know say that emergency communications is driving their passion to be ...

The journey of Earth’s radio signals began over a century ago, following the first intentional broadcast by Reginald Aubrey ...

For many participants in the world of amateur radio, the initial draw can be something like the ability to talk to people from around the world. “It starts as a hobby. You want to talk to somebody ...

If aliens are watching Earth, they might be able to detect us from the radio signals we beam to Mars to control our rovers there. Astronomers have now listened in on the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an investigative attorney and physical security specialist. Two-way radios can be one of the most effective communications ...