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News
October 17, 2024
The inaugural International Open RAN Symposium (IORS) convened September 17–19, 2024, in Golden, Colorado, United States of America. NTIA welcomed over 250 participants at the inaugural Symposium from over 20 countries.
July 22, 2024
ITS has released a new technical memorandum titled “Joint Analyses of No-Reference Speech Quality Estimation Tools and Conference Speech Recorded in Diverse Real-World Conditions.”...
April 1, 2024
ITS, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense’s FutureG Office, hosted the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Forum in Dallas, Texas, from March 26 to 28.
The 2024 RIC Forum brought government, military, telecommunications...
Recent Publications
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Douglas M. Boulware and Anthony W. Romaniello, “An Analysis of Aggregate CBRS SAS Data from April 2021 to July 2024,” Technical Report NTIA TR-25-575, November 2024
This report presents an analysis of aggregate Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Spectrum Access System (SAS) data reported quarterly from April 1, 2021, to July 1, 2024. The data provide insights into the growth of CBRS, the impact of dynamic s...
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Frank H. Sanders, “Adventures in Radar Spectrum and Radar Coexistence in Today’s World,” Special Publication NTIA SP-25-576, November 2024
Of all the radio system types that occupy the electromagnetic spectrum, perhaps none are so important while also being so generally misunderstood, even within technical communities, as radars. Radar technology, the revolutionary innovation that the A...
This Month in ITS History
December 1941: FCC Suspends All Amateur Radio Use During Wartime
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, decimating the U.S. Pacific fleet. This act brought the United States into World War II. For many, it was a day that the world changed forever. The National Bureau of Standards Radio Section changed forever, too. The day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the FCC issued a formal order suspending all amateur radio operations for the duration of the war. The Bureau immediately renewed its close ties with the Navy and the Army Signal Corps. By the summer of 1942, the Radio Section was renamed the Interservice Radio Propagation Laboratory (IRPL) and its work was directed by the National Defense Research Council. Radar was a new te ...