ITS: The Nation’s Spectrum and Communications Lab
Our mission is to ADVANCE innovation in communications technologies, INFORM spectrum and communications policy for the benefit of all stakeholders, and INVESTIGATE our Nation’s most pressing telecommunications challenges through research that employees are proud to deliver.
News
August 4, 2026
Almost 57 years after President Richard Nixon’s long-distance telephone call — via radio — to the Apollo 11 astronauts, Artemis II marked mankind's return to the lunar neighborhood. With the potential for future space travel, economic development,...
July 1, 2026
In July, the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences celebrates two anniversaries: the entry of John Howard Dellinger into the Federal workforce and the publication of the open-source FORTRAN code for the Irregular Terrain Model (ITM). ...
June 15, 2026
Accurately predicting and modeling the impacts of terrain,...
Recent Research Publications
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Margaret H. Pinson and Rob Grosso, “JNR-ITScam: Dataset Track 2-1 from ITU-T Study Group 12 Validation of No-Reference Metrics for Camera Capture Impairments, Depicting the User-Generated Content Use Case,” Technical Memorandum NTIA TM-27-584, October 2026
This memorandum documents a video quality subjective test conducted by NTIA–ITS in support of the ITU-T Study Group 12 Question 19 validation of no reference (NR) metrics from 2025 to 2026. This test focuses on user-generated content and is nam...
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Margaret H. Pinson, John Dumke, and Rob Grosso, “JNR-ITSps: Dataset Track 2-2 from ITU-T Study Group 12 Validation of No-Reference Metrics for Camera Capture Impairments, Depicting the Public Safety Use Case,” Technical Memorandum NTIA TM-27-585, October 2026
This memorandum documents a video quality subjective test conducted by NTIA–ITS in support of the ITU-T Study Group 12 Question 19 validation of no reference (NR) metrics from 2025 to 2026. This test focuses on the public safety use case and is name...
This Month in ITS History
November 1918: World War 1 Ends
The National Bureau of Standards radio lab worked closely with the Army and Navy during the First World War. During the war, the lab's work was focused on military needs, such as air navigation devices, submarine communications equipment, and training books for military radio operators. The demand for its work had prompted the lab to increase staff to 40 people. At 11:00 AM on November 11th 1918 the Armist...