[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 
the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 
1-800-877-8339, which is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 
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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