[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 10, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 40647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16804]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Toward Innovative Spectrum-Sharing Technologies: Wireless
Spectrum Research and Development Senior Steering Group (WSRD SSG)
Workshop III
AGENCY: The National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and
Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD).
ACTION: Notice.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wendy Wigen at 703-292-4873 or
[email protected]. Individuals who use a telecommunications device for
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days a year (including Federal holidays).
DATES: July 24, 2012.
SUMMARY: Representatives from Federal research agencies, private
industry, and academia will build on the outcomes of Workshop I and
Workshop II by identifying realistic projects whose implementation will
significantly support the plan to meet the Presidential Memorandum's
goals.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Overview: This notice is issued by the
National Coordination Office for the Networking and Information
Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. Agencies of the
NITRD Program are holding the third in a series of workshops to bring
together experts from private industry and academia to help ``create
and implement a plan to facilitate research, development,
experimentation, and testing by researchers to explore innovative
spectrum-sharing technologies, including those that are secure and
resilient.'' The workshop will take place on July 24, 2012 from 8:15
a.m. to 5 p.m. MT in Boulder, Colorado at the Millennium Harvest House
Boulder, 1325 Twenty-Eighth Street, 80302-6899. This event will be
webcast. The event agenda and information about the webcast will be
available the week of the event at: http://www.nitrd.gov/Subcommittee/wirelessspectrumrd.aspx.
Background: The Presidential Memorandum on Unleashing the Wireless
Broadband Revolution, released on June 28, 2010, directed the federal
agencies to create and implement a plan that ``facilitates research,
development, experimentation, and testing by researchers to explore
innovative spectrum-sharing technologies.''
The WSRD has held two workshops that addressed the challenge
defined in that Presidential Memorandum and which included input from
the academic and industry sectors. During WSRD's first Workshop held at
Boulder, CO, on July 26, 2011, the participants indicated that a
national-level testing environment is critical for validating spectrum
sharing technology under realistic conditions; they also emphasized the
value of a spectrum sharing testing environment for a diversity of
users. At a second workshop, held in Berkeley, CA, in January, 2012,
key concepts and criteria were established for spectrum sharing test
and evaluation capabilities.
This third workshop will build on the progress we have made by
identifying realistic projects whose implementation will significantly
support the plan to meet the Presidential Memorandum's goals. This
workshop will gather diverse, knowledgeable, and forward thinking
stakeholders to advise us on this important step forward.
Submitted by the National Science Foundation for the National
Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information Technology
Research and Development (NITRD) on July 5, 2012.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2012-16804 Filed 7-9-12; 8:45 am]
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