The administration Friday provided long-promised data on federal spectrum...
The administration Friday provided long-promised data on federal spectrum use, through a new website. “Spectrum.gov provides a compendium of federal spectrum use in the 225 megahertz through 5 gigahertz bands -- prime real estate that has prompted the most interest…
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from both federal and commercial users,” said NTIA Associate Administrator Karl Nebbia in a blog post (http://1.usa.gov/1iE95Gj). “It contains information for each frequency band in which the federal government has significant operations on an exclusive or shared basis. Just as commercial broadband providers are facing growing demands for spectrum to fuel the explosion of new wireless devices, federal agencies’ demand for spectrum also is growing. NTIA’s compendium shows agencies need spectrum for crucial tasks ranging from military flight testing to air traffic control to weather forecasting.” The site offers data on a band-by-band basis. For example, a section on the 1755-1850 MHz band (http://1.usa.gov/1ewX9ni) provides such basics as that there are 3,183 federal agency allocations in the band, with the largest numbers tied to air combat traffic training systems (707) and to military tactical radio relay (579). The 24 pages of texts on just that band offer basic information on various systems operated by the Department of Defense and other agencies.