BROWSING: DoD

‘Each year without an auction … digs the US deeper into a hole’: CTIA presses for FCC auction authority, speedy execution on spectrum plans

'NTIA has less than two years to get the U.S. back on track," telecom industry group's CEO writes The United States' leadership in spectrum policy, 5G and reaping the economic benefits of the most advanced mobile networks are in jeopardy and have to get back...

Federated touts private network demo for DoD ahead of smartware house deployment

Federated Wireless has just completed a successful demonstration of a 5G private network in shared spectrum for the U.S. Department of Defense, ahead of a smart warehouse deployment at Marine Corps Base Albany 5G testbed. The 5G network made use of 80 megahertz of CBRS...

Verizon Public Sector secures $78.8 million task order with the Air National Guard

Verizon Public Sector has secured a $78.8 million Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) task order with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide advanced network modernization services to the Air National Guard (ANG) Readiness Center. The task order, stated the operator, increases the scope of services...

Verizon secures $495M contract with US DoD to manage research network

Verizon Public Sector secured a $495 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network services in support of critical research. Verizon’s solutions, which include switch, router, firewall and edge compute capabilities, will connect 200...

Private 5G network KPIs and management SLAs – who wants what from industrial 5G

US-based Federated Wireless has watched at close quarters as US enterprises have piled into the CBRS band to deploy private LTE and 5G networks. Here, Deepak Das, in the company's CTO office, describes the unfolding landscape, as enterprises put cellular to work in the...

Federated Wireless on 2021: CBRS-based 5G takes hold – as Wi-Fi 6 is ‘dead on arrival’

The race to make 5G a viable platform for Industry 4.0 has shifted up a gear with the availability of shared CBRS spectrum for private wireless networks, and private 5G will continue to gain momentum in 2021 as enterprises focus on streamlining and automating...

New $600m military 5G fund puts focus on smart logistics, industrial AR/VR

A new $600 million round of funding by the US Department of Defense (DOD) is being made available for testing military-grade and industrial-grade 5G. The investment will go into smart logistics and industrial AR and VR systems, alongside combat-orientated aircraft and missile communications and...

FCC will vote on opening up 3.45-3.55 GHz for mobile networks

Following up on White House and Department of Defense efforts to open up another 100 megahertz of midband spectrum for mobile networks, the Federal Communications Commission is set to vote later this month on plans for 3.45-3.55 GHz. Chairman Ajit Pai announced yesterday that he...

Microsoft joins DOE consortium to develop AI for first responders

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has pulled together a consortium of industry, government, non-profit, and academic bodies to develop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to help with disaster response. Microsoft is co-chairing the group, called the First Five Consortium, with the DOE’s Artificial Intelligence...

Midband spectrum infusion: 3.45-3.55 GHz will be opened up for 5G

White House and Department of Defense officials have announced plans to commercialize another 100 megahertz of highly desired midband spectrum for terrestrial 5G use, with an auction happening as soon as next year. The airwaves from 3.45 GHz-3.55 GHz are adjacent to the Citizens Broadband...

Amid DoD 5G push, Verizon brings 5G to Marine base

As the U.S. Department of Defense moves forward with exploration of the role that 5G will play in its future, Verizon announced this week that it is lighting up 5G service at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, California. MCAS Miramar is home to...

What is the government doing to counter cybercrime?

Countering cybercrime is a daunting challenge, not only because there are so many cybercriminals but also because they are so technically sophisticated. A 2014 ZDNet article stated that organized cybercrime groups have technical capabilities equal to (or in some cases superior to) those of...

REAN Cloud lands potential $950 million DoD cloud contract

REAN Cloud scores DoD deal to accelerate cloud migration Northern Virginia cloud systems integrator REAN Cloud announced last week it landed a five-year contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) potentially worth $950 million. As part of the deal, REAN Cloud will provide Pentagon...

Beyond Beacons: The future of indoor location (Reader Forum)

  The use cases for indoor location services continue to grow—every industry from manufacturing and logistics to law enforcement to healthcare to retail, and dozens of others, can benefit from the ability to determine an object’s precise location indoors. New applications are emerging every day...