BB News & Events

BlackBerry announced the renewal and expansion of its long-standing secure communications partnership with the Government of Canada, continuing the use of BlackBerry UEM while significantly increasing the deployment of BlackBerry SecuSUITE to support mission-critical, sovereign communications across federal departments and agencies. The renewed multi-year agreement, signed with Shared Services Canada, reflects the Government of Canada's continued trust in BlackBerry as a strategic national partner and reinforces Canada's commitment to Canadian-built technology that protects national security while supporting the global export of trusted sovereign solutions.

BlackBerry Secure Communications announced new enhancements to BlackBerry AtHoc that give Operators better tools to coordinate response during critical operations. The updates, delivered through the AtHoc platform's Command Center, provide a unified operational workspace where distributed teams can establish a common operating picture, track personnel accountability, and align activity across sites and agencies without reconciling information across disconnected tools. "In critical operations, the speed of your response depends on how fast you can understand the situation and get the right people and systems moving in the same direction," said Ramon Pinero, General Manager, BlackBerry AtHoc. "These capabilities give Operators one place to assess conditions, make decisions, and direct activity. That tightens the whole cycle from awareness to action, and it means less time spent piecing together the picture and more time spent running the response."

QNX will showcase a powerful lineup of mission-critical innovations at Embedded World 2026, taking place March 10 - 12, 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany. As industries move beyond traditional robotics and automation to embrace Physical AI, where machines perceive, reason, learn and autonomously interact with the world, the need for a deterministic, real-time software foundation becomes critical and marks a fundamental change in how intelligent machines are built. In response to this emerging trend, the business will spotlight its QNX General Embedded Development Platform, alongside a QNX-powered humanoid demonstrating the importance of real-time determinism and fault-tolerant operation for next-generation 'intelligent' industrial and autonomous robots. Complementing these product showcases, QNX will also host two hands-on QNX Everywhere developer workshops, giving engineers the opportunity to build a QNX-powered application and experience the company's real-time operating system technologies in action.

QNX, a division of BlackBerry (BB), announced an expanded collaboration with Haleytek to enable a fully centralized Software-Defined Audio architecture for Volvo Cars' (VLVLY)upcoming EX60 fully electric SUV. Setting a new standard for audio innovation in software-defined vehicles, the milestone supports Volvo Cars' progress in its Superset tech stack strategy, which seeks to unify hardware and software into a scalable, future-ready platform. The EX60 will debut with Volvo Cars' new SPA3 infotainment platform, featuring branded sound system options from multiple prominent audio providers. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on dedicated digital signal processors within amplifiers, SDA centralizes audio processing on a powerful system-on-chip, providing automakers with greater flexibility, faster deployment of new features and a foundation for continuous software innovation.