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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">USA Spectrum Monitoring Pilot Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The NTIA is planning a two-year pilot program to determine the benefits of an automated spectrum measurement and data collection system
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In his June 2013 Executive Memorandum on Expanding America's Leadership in Wireless Innovation, President Obama directed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to design and conduct a pilot
program to monitor spectrum usage in real time in selected communities throughout the country.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">NTIA's budget request to Congress for fiscal year (FY) 2014 seeks an initial $7.5 million research and development investment for a two-year pilot program to determine the benefits of an automated spectrum measurement
and data collection system to better analyze actual spectrum usage. NTIA issues this Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to seek public comment on this proposed spectrum monitoring pilot program that, if funded, would develop and deploy a prototype system to monitor spectrum
usage in up to ten metropolitan areas throughout the United States. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The NOI requests input from all interested stakeholders on the measurement system's design, features, deployment options, operational parameters, expected utility, potential benefits, and other issues. Subject to the
availability of funds, NTIA will design, develop, validate, and field this prototype system and evaluate whether a more comprehensive monitoring program would create additional opportunities for more efficient spectrum access through, for example, increased
and more dynamic sharing. NTIA intends to use the input received in response to this NOI to help design and implement the spectrum monitoring program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span>Federal Register <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/08/19/2013-20148/spectrum-monitoring-pilot-program<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks to Brian Heywood ZL1IE for spotting this item.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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