Skip to main content

Currently Skimming:

3 Collaboration at the Boulder Telecommunications Laboratories
Pages 22-26

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 22...
... , 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.
From page 23...
... 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.
From page 24...
... NATIONAL ADVANCED SPECTRUM AND COMMUNICATIONS TEST NETWORK NASCTN had its genesis in 2009 when DOD developed the idea for a single entity to address the increasing commercial demands on spectrum occupied by DOD systems. 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.
From page 25...
... against unauthorized uses and disclosures, pursuant to applicable statutes, regulations, and agreements, while facilitating sharing of member controlled information; • Facilitate access to available spectrum test data, analyses, and reports that can be made available to federal, academic, and industry spectrum users to assist in testing, technology assessments, and other research; and • Facilitating coordination, rapid access, and engagement of member engineering capabilities. 12 The potential value of NASCTN, as described above, is obvious to the committee; however, despite the NASCTN transition team moving to Boulder in 2013, the NASCTN processes are still in their formative stages and, therefore, have not proven themselves to be capable of meeting the desired in-take and project allocation role.
From page 26...
... 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.


This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More information on Chapter Skim is available.