Federal Government Use and Management of Spectrum: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, June 25, 1996Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. |
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Page 30 - ... future opportunity both directly and, through the reallocation of dollars to mitigate the damage, indirectly as well. Less spectrum access yields an increased expenditure of time, funds, and other resources to develop, test, and field alternative capabilities or work-arounds that in many cases will be less effective than the capabilities they replace. Less spectrum access yields a degradation of military readiness while alternative capabilities are developed and compensatory training requirements...
Page 55 - I would be glad to respond to any questions the committee may have. [The prepared statement of Mr.
Page 34 - work around" is one more thing our young people must learn and remember, perhaps while under fire. Each time we are forced to "adjust" training in the United States away from operational norms to accommodate domestic spectrum constraints, our training realism and hence training effectiveness suffers. Thus loss of spectrum access potentially forces us to expend other resources to compensate, expenditures that do not advance our capabilities.
Page 28 - Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee, we want to thank you for the opportunity...
Page 57 - Organization (WHO), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that are relevant for specific sectors of the economy.
Page 44 - I would be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. [The prepared statement of Mr.
Page 35 - GHz are reserved for Federal use. Over 86 percent of this valuable part of the RF spectrum is today available to the private sector and that percentage will increase when the provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 come into effect. The need to review spectrum usage, to clearly articulate requirements and identify opportunities for sharing, does not fall upon the DOD and other Federal users alone, but also upon all users of the spectrum in the United States. Spectrum sharing is...
Page 35 - ... spectrum, ie, multiple users of the same frequencies whose individual uses are technically compatible, and multiple re-use of the same frequencies through physical separation of users. We develop and implement technical spectrum sharing criteria among the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. For some time there has not been enough spectrum to give each individual system or individual user the luxury of their "own
Page 35 - There are factors in addition to cost that must be considered. First, in some cases we use the bands we do because they are the frequencies that work best for the purpose at hand. In some cases, they may be the only workable frequencies. The physics of radio wave propagation is not something we can change. In other cases, our use of the spectrum is bound by international agreements since DOD operations are conducted worldwide.
Page 7 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, members of the committee. The CHAIRMAN.