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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, 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 User 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 dataset focuses on the public safety use case and is n...
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Margaret H. Pinson and Rob Grosso, “JNR-ITScam: Dataset from ITU Study Group 12 Validation of No Reference Metrics for Camera Capture Impairments, Depicting the User Generated Content Use Case,” Technical Memorandum NTIA TM-585, October 2026
This memorandum provides an in-depth description of the JNR-ITScam dataset. NTIA - ITS conducted this video quality subjective test in support of the ITU-T Study Group 12 Question 19 validation of no reference (NR) metrics. The videos portray variou...
This Month in ITS History
September 1962: Canadian Satellite Allouette Launched from Point Aguella, CA
On September 29, 1962, the world’s first top-side ionospheric sounding satellite was launched from Point Aguella Missile Range in California. Top-side sounding allows researchers to probe the ionosphere from above, in much the same way that researchers have explored it from the ground, using reflected radio waves. Thes...