{"content":[{"text":"Mr. President:","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.090854,"width":0.11224000000000002,"height":0.017521999999999996}},{"text":"In your October 25, 2018 Presidential Memorandum on Developing a Sustainable Spectrum Strategy for \n America’s Future, you directed The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with providing \n recommendations for prioritizing R&D to advance radio frequency spectrum access and efficiency. The \n attached report is a product of interagency collaboration, led by the National Science and Technology \n Council’s Wireless Spectrum R&D Interagency Working Group (WSRD), and highlights key priorities for \n spectrum R&D going forward.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.119642,"width":0.764861,"height":0.104795}},{"text":"Wireless spectrum is an essential resource to the economic prosperity, national security, and public \n safety of our Nation. The successful management and allocation of electromagnetic spectrum bands \n and wavelengths is crucial to ensuring that this resource is used in the most efficient way possible, \n maximizing the benefits of technologies that rely on such bands. New and innovative methods of \n utilizing spectrum, such as the identification of new bands that may provide benefit to certain \n technologies, or improved spectrum sharing technologies that allow better and more efficient use of \n identified bands, are key to our Nations near and long-term success.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.235854,"width":0.764946,"height":0.12225699999999995}},{"text":"While Federal and Commercial investment paved the way to 4G and provided a tremendous \n enhancement in services and capabilities, current networks are not sufficient to support the industries \n of the future. The United States must invest in state-of-the-art means and methods to use spectrum \n efficiently and reap the benefits of the advanced technologies that 5G will support: autonomous \n vehicles, telemedicine, emergency communications, and untold next-generation technologies that will \n result from increased data capacity and connectivity. Research and development (R&D) efforts are vital \n to ensuring that the United States maintains a strategic purpose and intent in navigating the wireless \n spectrum environment and ensuring the efficient and timely adoption of 5G networks.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.369377,"width":0.7648870000000001,"height":0.13979499999999995}},{"text":"In this report, WSRD has identified three spectrum R&D priorities: (1) pursue spectrum flexibility and \n agility to use multiple bands and new waveforms, (2) improve near real-time spectrum awareness, and \n (3) increase spectrum efficiency and effectiveness through secure autonomous spectrum decision \n making. Each plan lays out near and long-term recommendations that, if adopted, will position the \n United States to be a wireless technology leader.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.520438,"width":0.7647390000000001,"height":0.08739500000000011}},{"text":"The effort to invest in R&D recognizes that the future of public- and private-sector spectrum use must \n be flexible, focus on better awareness of spectrum use and spectrum congestion, and spectrum \n decision-making must be autonomous. By achieving these goals and leveraging collaborative public- \n private partnerships, our Nation will lead in next generation wireless technology through development \n of robust, dynamic, and flexible spectrum environments.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.619099,"width":0.76495,"height":0.08737100000000009}},{"text":"Sincerely,","bbox":{"left":0.329444,"top":0.742736,"width":0.07367200000000002,"height":0.017522000000000038}},{"text":"Michael Kratsios \n Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology","bbox":{"left":0.329444,"top":0.792925,"width":0.36536700000000005,"height":0.036310000000000064}},{"text":"– ii –","bbox":{"left":0.483415,"top":0.937162,"width":0.033365000000000034,"height":0.017522000000000038}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}