Jill Singer, vice president of national security at AT&T’s global public sector business and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has been appointed to serve a five-year term on the University of West Florida board of trustees beginning in January 2020.

AT&T has announced the addition of a FirstNet cell site in northwestern Minnesota to support emergency response communications. The purpose-built station is situated between White Earth Reservation and Itasca State Park, close to the intersection of 92 and 200 state highways, AT&T said Thursday.

Stephen Luczo, chairman of the board of directors at Seagate Technology since 2002, has been elected as a board member at AT&T. He will serve on the corporate development and finance committee of the telecommunication firm's board, AT&T said Friday.

The Seattle Fire Department has partnered with AT&T to deploy the FirstNet communications service for paramedics and firefighters through their rig equipment and mobile phones.

Rick Hubbard, former senior vice president at AT&T, has joined Parsons to serve as senior vice president of business development for the Virginia-based technology firm’s connected communities market.

AT&T has partnered with the government of Talbot County in Maryland to launch a FirstNet cell site on Tilghman Island.

AT&T has added two new cell sites in Virginia for the FirstNet public safety network’s expansion in the region.

AT&T and the Kansas 911 Coordinating Council have partnered to implement a cloud-based situational awareness tool that includes RapidDeploy’s dispatch system.

Commnet Wireless, a subsidiary of ATN International, has received a potential 25-year, $167.5M contract to provide network construction and maintenance services to support AT&T’s southwestern U.S. mobile services, Light Reading reported Thursday.

AT&T announced on Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has selected the company to help improve its mission performance with modernized technology through a potential 15-year, $984 million task order through the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) technology procurement program. 

AT&T expects to reach 70 percent of the development of a U.S. wireless public safety network service, GCN reported Friday.

Robert Patterson, senior executive director of global law enforcement at AT&T's public sector solutions business, has said the FirstNet communications service could be a "game changer" for the way public safety personnel conduct rescue and recovery missions. He wrote in a GCN guest piece published Tuesday the nationwide broadband network offers push-to-talk features that allow agencies to collaborate to help enforce the law and address public safety concerns.