The Pentagon’s FutureG office plans to publish the first version of the Open Centralized Unit Distributed Unit (OCUDU) radio access network project to GitHub in April to foster innovation in current 5G and emerging 6G networks.
The contract awards come as the Pentagon continues to advocate for its access to the electromagnetic spectrum to operate the future Golden Dome missile defense architecture.
The new DAF Network of the Future plan outlines where the department wants to implement commercial technologies to modernize its IT networks.
The Department of the Navy’s CTO issued a new memo to guide investment and modernization efforts for the Navy and Marine Corps.
Officials are planning to release a request for prototype proposals in June for the open centralized unit distributed unit (OCUDU) project.
The demonstration will help inform a follow-on study requested by the 2023 National Spectrum Strategy.
As the Army looks to modernize under what it calls its Next Generation Command and Control architecture, the service’s vice chief said radios will be replaced by smartphone-like devices.
President Trump nominated Michael Dodd to be assistant secretary of defense for critical technologies.
An early use case for 6G could give the Pentagon improved capabilities to sense drones in the environment surrounding a network.
The binary choice many in the telecommunications industry are lobbying Congress to make would kill President Trump’s Iron Dome for America and continue to leave the U.S. homeland exposed to an array of long-range strike threats, Sen. Mike Rounds writes in this Op-Ed.
