NTIA Deputy Dir. John Kneur said Mon. that a group of multi-agenc...
NTIA Deputy Dir. John Kneur said Mon. that a group of multi-agency federal spectrum officials, the Policy & Plans Steering Group (PPSG), is on target to release a report in May on the next steps for implementing the recommendations…
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of the President’s spectrum policy initiative, which was released in June. “We're going to meet that deadline,” Kneur said in comments to a conference sponsored by the E-Gov Institute. “That’s going to come up with the nuts and the bolts for an implementation… of each of these different recommendations.” Kneur told reporters the high-level members of the PPSG met once in Jan. but that smaller working groups have been holding continuing meetings. “The entire execution of this implementation plan is one that’s being worked on at the expert staff level. It’s being approved at the high level and we're getting contributions at the high level of the agencies as well,” he said: “We're working top down, bottom up, back and forth.” Kneur told the conference NTIA wants to make clear that the govt. is changing how it does business: “This is not just a one time exercise. We are building into our processes and into our management scheme these lessons, these improvements and we plan to execute on them.” Kneur wouldn’t disclose which spectrum ranges are being examined by NTIA for its contribution to the spectrum testbed, a key recommendation of the June NTIA report on U.S. spectrum policy in the 21st Century. Kneur said the testbed could be used to test geographic sharing of spectrum and the use of masks. “The ultimate goal is to really develop the state of the art of the technology,” he said.