MSI · Earnings call · 2026Q2T · Full report

Public Safety Budget Outlook

Motorola Solutions, Inc. · 2026-08-05 · Importance 17 · Surprise 24

Management characterized 2026 state and local public-safety budgets as healthy, with no material hesitation around large-scale APX NEXT upgrades. Early 2027 budgets that have been proposed or approved indicate public-safety spending is growing faster than overall state and local government budgets. Funding allocated to public-safety software is growing faster still, which management said should provide a generally favorable environment for Motorola Solutions in 2027.

Key facts

• They expect state and local public safety budgets for 2026 to be holding up well and that for 2027 public safety budgets are growing faster than overall government budgets.
• They stated funding attributed to software for public safety is growing even faster than money being allocated to public safety overall.