DoD officials met with a key industry group this week to outline a framework the Pentagon hopes can kickstart a discussion on a spectrum management program.
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“Ligado fails to plead any plausible facts to support its purely speculative claim that the Government has occupied its licensed spectrum,” alleges the DoJ motion to dismiss the satellite communication firm’s suit in US Federal Claims Court.
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The US and its allies managed to block a move by China to open up the 6 GHz band Beijing uses for 5G mobile wireless communications to global use — a move that would have empowered Chinese telecom firms such as Huawei.
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Disputes over spectrum use by mega-constellations in low Earth orbit, such as SpaceX’s Starlink, also carry heavy political baggage at the 2023 World Radio Conference that starts tomorrow in Dubai.
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The testbed will ultimately support the Marines’s “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) goals, which involve Marines operating in contested environments with increased bandwidth requirements,” according to Lockheed Martin.
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GDIT President Amy Gilliland spoke to Breaking Defense about how the tech company is redirecting its investments to meet the technological demands of the day, including incorporating lessons from Ukraine.
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As part of the takeover, Sherman said his office will look at expanding the Pentagon’s 5G pilots to additional DoD installations and added he’ll be looking specifically at open radio access network, or O-RAN, pilots.
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The month-long World Radiocommunications Conference in Dubai will decide whether to change how spectrum use is allocate among various users – including spectrum needed by DoD planes and ships operating abroad.
By Theresa Hitchens
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on March 5 sent a letter to Congress endorsing a plan for sharing the disputed 3.1-3.45 spectrum band — but also opening the possibility that DoD could vacate it entirely, according to the Congressional Research Service.
By Theresa Hitchens
While DoD interested in the potential of satellite-to-wireless, government, military and industry officials speaking at Satellite 2023 recognized there also are a number of challenges for military operators.
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Robert Lightfoot, executive VP of Lockheed Martin Space, explained that the Ignite team pulls together four previously separate organizations to undertake fast-paced technology development.
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STRATCOM’s Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center is focused primarily on repelling threats from Russia and China, but DoD also faces a potentially crippling spectrum grab by US commercial 5G wireless giants.
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The plan is for Space Systems Command’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office to set up a contracting vehicle that allows military users to buy satellite-direct-to-cellular communications capability as a service, said Clare Grason, who heads that office.
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Instead of laborious decades-long development cycles that produce exquisite, expensive military-specific systems, the Pentagon needs to exploit affordable, off-the-shelf 5G technology that’s available right now, say two Hudson Institute analysts.
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