Wicker, Inhofe Praise Spectrum IT Modernization Act Text in FY21 NDAA
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., hailed Armed Services for including language from their Spectrum IT Modernization Act (S-3717) in the chamber’s version of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.…
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S-3717 would require NTIA to develop a plan for modernizing its IT systems, including “ways to improve the management of" DOD and other "covered agencies’ use of Federal spectrum through that infrastructure." It would require NTIA to develop “a time-based automated mechanism” to “share Federal spectrum between covered agencies.” Senate Commerce advanced S-3717 in late May, though Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., raised concerns (see 2005200037). Armed Services advanced its NDAA text last week (see 2006110026). “I am pleased that this bipartisan work with my colleagues” on Armed Services and Commerce “would establish a whole-of-government approach to spectrum management,” Wicker said Friday. Inhofe said the bill “highlights how, working together," NTIA "can meet the needs of the public and private sector through thoughtful management of spectrum.”