Commerce, NTIA Unwavering in Ligado Opposition
The Commerce Department and NTIA haven't changed in their opposition to the FCC's Ligado approval, Secretary Gina Raimondo told Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., in a June 22 letter released Wednesday. "NTIA will continue its efforts…
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on behalf of the Executive Branch to oppose it," including ongoing pursuit of the reconsideration petition before the FCC, she said. NTIA "stands ready to support" DOD in an independent technical review of the Ligado order it's having done by the National Academy of Sciences, she said. Inhofe, in comments on the Senate floor, said he communicated with Raimondo as he wanted to ensure "that even with a change in administration, government departments and agencies still wanted to see the harmful order repealed." Commerce's response "shows, once again, that there is bipartisan concern about the Ligado order that is continuing into the Biden administration," he said.