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3 Collaboration at the Boulder Telecommunications Laboratories
Pages 14-18

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... , and two newly created collaboration mechanisms, the CAC and the NASCTN. PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PROGRAM For many years, ITS and NIST have provided unique technical testing services and support to the public safety community in the area of public safety communications and other technical services.
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... 2 With this level of funding, there is a risk that PSCR work dominates the Boulder telecommunications laboratories. This could serve to undermine the valuable commercial communications work and the public safety communications that leverages those commercial technologies.
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... In 2010, this initial concept gained support through the Presidential Memorandum "Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution" 7 and NTIA's "Ten Year Plan and Timetable to Make Available 500 Megahertz of Spectrum for Wireless Broadband." 8 During the National Executive Council on Space-Positioning, Navigation and Timing deliberations on the company LightSquared in 2011, then Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari affirmed the need for an independent and impartial organization, environment, and process for testing and evaluating new spectrum-sharing technologies to support policy decisions. 9 Momentum built in 2012 with the publication of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
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... The current NASCTN members are soliciting potential additional members. From the NASCTN website, key functionalities of the enterprise include the following: • Creating a trusted capability for federal, academic and industry spectrum users to facilitate spectrum sharing studies; optimize access to engineering capabilities; and engage federal, academic, and industry spectrum users' in active collaboration; • Performing outreach and engagement activities within their respective communities in order to identify spectrum-related testing and evaluation needs, and to disseminate information about the availability and access requirements of engineering capabilities; • Protecting controlled information (e.g.
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... RECOMMENDATION: The Public Safety Communications Research Program should be considered as a template for collaboration across the Boulder telecommunications laboratories. RECOMMENDATION: The National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network should be made fully functional as soon as possible to be able to handle the important mission that it has been assigned.
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