Looks like some amendments have been issued to the RFP for the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network. However, so far it does not look like there has been much change to the section on cybersecurity. There appears to be only a line or two changed in the document between the versions.

The big news this week seems to be Apple butting heads with the FBI regarding accessing the information on an iPhone, and will likely be in the news for the forseeable future. For some reason the article I am linking to interviews a bunch of Australian officials on the topic.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/for-simplicity-and-security-apple-needs-to-draw-a-line-now-to-prevent-further-ones/

Most of the time I spend discussing radio communications with others, its within the context of usage for voice traffic. However, in addition to voice Project 25 standard also includes the use of a radio to transmit IP data from both mobile and fixed hosts. Since the radios support encryption presumably any data traffic transmitted should be able to be encrypted just as voice traffic is, provided the encryption portion of the radios are configured properly I would think.

I did not come across anything of note to write about this week, and I set my digging into the P25 specifications from last week on the back burner and have not got around to picking it back up yet.