As COVID restrictions begin to ease across the country, the Biden administration is making another round of grant money available to help elementary and secondary school administrators reopen schools safely. The new Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER III) was established in March, 2021 when the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act was signed
As part of the Coronavirus Response & Relief Act, the U.S. Department of Education is accepting applications from educators to help in their continued coronavirus response and mitigation efforts. The Act provides a refresh of three CARES Act grant programs: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER II) Fund ($54.3 billion) Higher Education Emergency Relief
A potentially dangerous situation was thwarted last month in Oldsmar, Florida, thanks to an alert water-treatment plant operator. According to a report in IWCE Urgent Communications, a hacker infiltrated the computer system of the Tampa-area water-treatment plant and made a change to the lye level in the system. “After the intruder increased the parts per
Our partners at Panasonic are offering to help customers secure grant opportunities and prepare competitive applications for the funding of projects in 2021. The program helps public sector agencies develop project ideas, get technology-rich projects funded and even expand communications and security initiatives that are already in the works. The free assistance includes: Access to
The makers of the Rajant Mesh® Wireless Network have added two new transceivers to their lineup of BreadCrumb® nodes to better ensure mission critical video, voice and data don’t get bogged down. The Rajant Hawk BreadCrumb® and the Rajant Peregrine BreadCrumb® will allow for faster deployment, improved integration and significantly greater throughput. “A road construction crew,
Our partners at Motorola Solutions have developed a new program that allows businesses to share security camera images with law enforcement in real time, so agencies can respond to incidents more quickly and accurately, and ensure safer outcomes. The Avigilon™ Public-Private Partnership Packages leverage Avigilon Cloud Services, and give business owners the ability to: Get
Our partners at Motorola/Avigilon are offering to help educators identify grant opportunities and prepare competitive applications for the funding of video security projects. The free, customized assistance includes: Grant research Weekly (or even daily) alerts to federal, state, local and corporate grants that become available Free access to the grantfinder.com database Assistance with application process
Across Wisconsin’s most heavily populated county, there’s a movement afoot to increase the reliability of radio coverage for first responders within commercial buildings and large family dwellings. Currently, the 19 municipalities within Milwaukee County follow various (and often different) versions of The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA 72) code recommendations for first responder radio coverage,
Michels Corporation, the largest construction company in Wisconsin, is turning to BAYCOM to solve an all-too-common problem: Maintaining reliable communications across remote job sites. “Traditionally, if you wanted reliable two-way radio coverage in a remote location, you had to look for power. Who’s got the generator? Or who’s got a trailer with power? Then you’re
Following the introduction of its portable TLK 100 last year, Motorola Solutions has introduced the TLK 150, a mobile radio with the same push-to-talk capability that runs on a cellular network, but that’s designed to be installed in or on a vehicle. The TLK 150 addresses a few of the challenges posed by handheld portable
