1. DoD CIO Brief to FCC-NTIA Model City Workshop
Mr. Frederick D. Moorefield, Jr.
Director, Spectrum Policy and Programs
DoD Chief Information Officer
15 April 2015

2. Overview
The objective of the Spectrum Access Research and Development Program is the development and implementation of innovative spectrum technologies
Leverages the ongoing DoD EMS Strategy activities focusing on—
EMS efficiency, flexibility and adaptability to improve spectrum access
EMS agility to move to available spectrum bands
EMS resilience to operate in congested and contested spectrum environments
Current focus is on reducing the risks associated with the implementation of DoD’s AWS-3 transition, EMS congestion and EMS contention
April 3rd DoD entered into an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC)
The mission of the NSC is to foster collaboration between government and industry to identify, develop, and demonstrate the enabling technologies necessary to broaden the military and commercial access to and use of the electromagnetic spectrum
NSC currently has 115 committed organizations
Further information about the National Spectrum Consortium is available at
Purpose of the OTA is to bring spectrum access improvement through collaboration with industry faster to meet rapidly evolving requirements
The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey , on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Emerging Capabilities and Prototyping Office, intends to enter into a section 845 Prototype Other Transaction (OT) Agreement with the National Spectrum Consortium for a period of five (5) years.

3. Approach Conditions for Success must be created: Scope:
Program Strategy & Plan underpinning investment portfolio
Technology must be matured
Technology performance demonstrated
Experimentation to leverage the technology more effectively
Trust in reliability, availability, non-interference, and protection of stakeholder equities
Policy environment conducive to technology utilization
Ability to transition to PORs to field restored/enhanced operational capability via existing or additional SRF funding
Technology Prototype
Development, Demo
Assessment
Architecture
Policy
Scope:
Command & Control
Communications
Sensors
Electronic Warfare
Training
Assessment in Complex Environment
Experimentation
Requirements
CONOPS,TTPs

4. EMS S&T and R&D Focus: Initial Sharing Technologies
Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) & Frequency Reuse (FR) Technologies
Spectrum Situational Awareness (SA), Spectrum Command & Control (C2) & Mgt. of the Electromagnetic Environment (EM)
Adaptive RF Technologies
Radar & commercial-communications sharing technology
Millimeterwave & Frees Space Optical technologies
Interference Tolerance & Hardening Technologies
Air/Maritime Training Instrumentation (AMTI) Waveform
Spectrum Access Architecture
Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO)
Modeling & Simulation of the Electromagnetic Environment (EME)