DoD CIO Brief to FCC-NTIA Model City Workshop

Mr. Frederick D. Moorefield, Jr.

Director, Spectrum Policy and Programs

DoD Chief Information Officer15 April 2015

Overview• The objective of the Spectrum Access Research and Development Program is the

development and implementation of innovative spectrum technologies– Leverages the ongoing DoD EMS Strategy activities focusing on—

• EMS efficiency, flexibility and adaptability to improve spectrum access• EMS agility to move to available spectrum bands• EMS resilience to operate in congested and contested spectrum environments

– Current focus is on reducing the risks associated with the implementation of DoD’s AWS-3 transition, EMS congestion and EMS contention

• April 3rd DoD entered into an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC)

– The mission of the NSC is to foster collaboration between government and industry to identify, develop, and demonstrate the enabling technologies necessary to broaden the military and commercial access to and use of the electromagnetic spectrum

– NSC currently has 115 committed organizations– Further information about the National Spectrum Consortium is available at http://

www.nationalspectrumconsortium.com/– Purpose of the OTA is to bring spectrum access improvement through collaboration with industry

faster to meet rapidly evolving requirements

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ApproachConditions for Success must be created:• Program Strategy & Plan underpinning investment portfolio• Technology must be matured• Technology performance demonstrated• Experimentation to leverage the technology more effectively• Trust in reliability, availability, non-interference, and protection of

stakeholder equities• Policy environment conducive to technology utilization• Ability to transition to PORs to field restored/enhanced operational

capability via existing or additional SRF fundingTechnology Prototype Development, Demo

Assessment

ArchitecturePolicy

ExperimentationRequirementsCONOPS,TTPs

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Scope: • Command & Control• Communications• Sensors• Electronic Warfare• Training• Assessment in Complex Environment

Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) & Frequency Reuse

(FR) Technologies

Spectrum Situational Awareness (SA), Spectrum Command & Control (C2) & Mgt. of the Electromagnetic

Environment (EM)

Adaptive RF Technologies

Radar & commercial-communications sharing

technology

Millimeterwave & Frees Space Optical

technologies

Interference Tolerance & Hardening Technologies

Air/Maritime Training Instrumentation (AMTI)

Waveform

Spectrum Access Architecture

EMS S&T and R&D Focus: Initial Sharing Technologies

Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO)

Modeling & Simulation of the Electromagnetic

Environment (EME)

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