Company: BKTI
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-009464
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Company: BK Technologies Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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25 provides an environment in which users will increasingly have a wider selection of LMR suppliers, including smaller suppliers such as BK.

Today, public safety communications includes both LMR and cellular technologies. LMR is typically used when mission critical or life safety voice communications is required or in direct mode (radio-to-radio) communications applications. Cellular (LTE or 5G) is typically used to support broadband data applications in the field. Since the introduction of broadband data LTE cellular technology by U.S. cellular carriers in 2010, the industry has seen a rapid growth of public safety mobile applications which have made the first responder safer and more efficient.

As cellular coverage continues to improve terrestrially and soon from low earth orbit satellites, the opportunity to further extend mobile applications from public safety vehicles to the first responder’s smartphone opens a new era of services and opportunities.

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Description of Radio Products and P25 CAP Compliance 

We offer products under the company brand name BK Technologies. Our KNG Series and BKR Series radios operate in both the P25 digital and analog modes of operations in the FCC licensed bands; very high frequency (“VHF”) (136MHz - 174MHz), ultra-high frequency (“UHF”) (380MHz - 470MHz, 450MHz - 520MHz), and 700-800 MHz bands.

Our P25 digital technology is compliant with the Project 25 standard for digital LMR equipment. P25 has been adopted by representatives from APCO, NASTD, the U.S. Federal Government and other public safety user organizations.

The Department of Homeland Security’s ("DHS") P25 Compliance Assessment Program (“CAP”) is a voluntary program that allows LMR equipment suppliers to formally demonstrate their products’ compliance with P25 requirements. The purpose of the program is to provide federal, state and local emergency response agencies with evidence that the communications equipment they are purchasing satisfies the P25 standard for performance, conformance and interoperability. The program is a result of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress to improve communication interoperability for first responders and is a partnership of the DHS’s Command, Control and Interoperability Division, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”), radio equipment manufacturers and the emergency response community.

Both the KNG and BKR series radios have been validated under the CAP as being P25 compliant.

Description of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Offerings

BK’s first SaaS service, InteropONE, was introduced in October