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. Learn more about ITS on our YouTube Channel or read about our research programs in the Technical Progress Report.

News

April 1, 2024

ITS, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense’s FutureG Office, hosted the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Forum in Dallas, Texas, from March 26 to 28.

The 2024 RIC Forum brought government, military, telecommunications...

November 13, 2023

The goal of the two-year 5G Challenge was to accelerate the adoption of 5G open interfaces, interoperable subsystems,...

Recent Publications

This Month in ITS History

September 1970: The Office of Telecommunications Becomes a Primary Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce

Watch the film on the ITS YouTube Channel. The origins of the Institute of Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) date to the early years of the 20th century and the Radio Section of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC). The NBS Radio Section was founded prior to World War I and played a leading role in the evolution of the understanding of radio propagation—how radio waves travel in space. In 1946, the Radio Section was absorbed into a n ...

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