The government must embrace an “all hands on deck” approach...
The government must embrace an “all hands on deck” approach to freeing up spectrum, said Thomas Power, the deputy chief technology officer for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. NTIA must sit down with the agencies “to…
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go system by system to see what makes sense,” he said Friday during an event hosted by the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. Now is the time to “really roll up our sleeves.” Power said he was encouraged by FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell’s recent calls for the administration to spur government action on federal spectrum reallocation (CD May 18 p1). “I take it as encouragement and I welcome the encouragement and I'm optimistic,” he said. But Power warned that spectrum relocation is “complicated,” particularly with the systems in the 1755-1780 MHz band that defense jets use to communicate with each other. “This is not a simple change. You can’t send a technician up to make a change” to a defense satellite, he said. The government should focus on clearing and reallocating actionable spectrum first, he added. “Industry was concerned that focusing on the whole band would take too long and costs would be too high. I don’t consider that to be crazy talk ... It is a labor-intensive effort on the federal side so we have to keep the focus on identifying the systems that can be moved.” McDowell’s comments on spectrum, shown on C-SPAN’s the Communicators this weekend, are at http://xrl.us/bm8jdj.