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The Trump administration is seeking to make parts of the wireless spectrum previously reserved for the federal government available for commercial use, and it will require close collaboration between industry and agencies like the Defense Department to make it happen, experts said recently.
Federal spectrum refers to the portion of the electromagnetic radio frequency spectrum used by the U.S. government for the exclusive or shared use of federal agencies, and it is managed by the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA. The Federal Communications Commission manages all non-federal spectrum.
Spectrum policy is not just a commercial issue, it’s “fundamentally” a national security imperative, said Matt Pearl, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act mandated that the federal government make available at least 800 megahertz of spectrum, including at least 500 megahertz of spectrum currently allocated for federal users that will be reallocated toward primary or shared “full-power commercial licensed use cases” by July 2029
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