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The Department of Defense is aimed at creating the smart base of the future. Bases are essentially miniature cities, with all the same infrastructure needs like transportation, on-base personnel services and energy management, coupled with specific military needs. The idea is to use a 5G infrastructure to connect all of these elements, as well as cybersecurity and physical security, to become fully integrated and agile.
The Air Force and the Defense Department writ large are expecting 5G to be a game changer in the way it delivers information and connects platforms.
Maintaining contact with fellow operatives, calling in an airstrike, evacuating the injured, or making a situational report to leadership are all high-profile examples of communication’s importance.
As 5G is starting to roll out, telehealth may be breaking into a completely new plane. At Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) the Air Force is testing capabilities that could be the future of medicine.
The Army is embarking on a handful of 5G tests that it hopes will bring the service into the future with networking technology.
The National Spectrum Consortium is devoted to R&D related to the emerging 5G and related Internet of Things technologies. Now it has a new executive director, Dr. Maren Leed.
The budget gets rid of the overseas contingency operations account and divests $2.8 billion in legacy systems.
The Coast Guard is transforming its cyber “blue team” enterprise into a more comprehensive Cyber Operational Assessments Branch, and is standing up its first red team as part of this restructuring.
In today's Federal Newscast, a new Government Accountability Office report finds that the Defense Department is relying too much on GPS.
Ulf Ewaldsson, senior vice president and chief network officer at T-Mobile US, explained how 5G can help federal agencies accomplish their goals.
The working group over the last year-plus interviewed industry, academia, federal, state and local government agencies and other experts to receive demonstrations to identify capabilities and determine test bed suitability for use by the federal government of test labs.
Four years in, the FirstNet program is adding 5G technology to the nation's first responder network. And it's been steadily building out coverage in rural parts of the country.
The strategy will bring together elements that allow weapons systems to draw on large amounts of data.
Watch the videos of the Federal News Network and AT&T 5G Summit, in which defense leaders share their stories, lessons-learned, and enthusiasm for the transformational new technology.