House Armed Services Committee Eyes DOD Spectrum Plan Coming in Months Ahead
The House Armed Services Committee “is aware that the Department of Defense has been examining ways to better utilize the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) in the future,” it said in its committee report, released Wednesday and dated Tuesday, for the National…
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Defense Reauthorization Act for FY 2016. It pointed to “the significant effort that the Department of Defense has made to improve its responsiveness to changes in the technological and regulatory environment.” The committee expects DOD to release an Electromagnetic Spectrum Roadmap and Action Plan “in the coming months, which would implement the goals and objectives of the EMS Strategy, and address everything from systems acquisitions to operations to spectrum management policy,” the report said. It expressed interest in seeing the results, “including how it will leverage the government-industry-academia partnership of the National Spectrum Consortium to bring together stakeholders, and the S&T [science and technology] Roadmap, which is developing a technology roadmap for ensuring a spectrally efficient and dynamic system in the future.” The committee report, hundreds of pages long, also said the commander of the Navy’s 7th fleet “is testing a broadband system that provides cellular-based, fourth generation long-term evolution (4G LTE) and broadband satellite communications to Navy ships,” which “could potentially improve the communications capabilities of naval platforms and promote information sharing and real-time collaboration in an emergency situation.” It urged the Navy to continue these efforts.