NTIA Bares National Spectrum Strategy Road Map to Drive Wireless Technology Innovation Forward

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has released the National Spectrum Strategy implementation plan, seeking to promote U.S. innovation and leadership in wireless technologies. The plan’s proposed actions include conducting in-depth studies on the potential new uses of the 2,786 megahertz of spectrum identified in the strategy.

The plan outlines the studies’ timeline, milestones and assigned agencies, as well as potential uses to look into, like reconfiguring federal systems in the lower 3 GHz spectrum to open it for commercial use. 

Alan Davidson, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information and NTIA administrator, views the implementation plan as a road map that would enable the United States to prevail in the “intense competition for global leadership in the wireless space,” the NTIA said Tuesday. 

The agency also announced that the plan calls for the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee to develop a collaborative process among federal agencies for establishing a national long-term spectrum policy and a National Spectrum Workforce Plan. 

The White House issued the spectrum strategy in November, along with a presidential memorandum, Modernizing United States Spectrum Policy and Establishing a National Spectrum Strategy.