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

ITS is hosting a RIC Forum!

In collaboration with U.S. Department of Defense FutureG & 5G Office, ITS is hosting a RIC Forum March 27–28, 2024, where radio access network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) Application (App) vendors and universities can demonstrate viable RIC Apps and their use cases for the purposes of technical knowledge sharing. Presenters will showcase authentic RIC App demonstrations (not simulations) that measure and display the effects of their xApps or rApps on a 5G Open RAN network. Click here for more details ...

News

Shining a Spotlight on ITS Interns

September 1, 2023

Employment opportunities at ITS include internships for students at all levels of their scholastic careers. Like other employment opportunities, when openings exist, these are listed on ...

New ITS Contributions Supporting International Radio Standards Continue One-hundred-year-old Tradition

May 25, 2023

Until June 2, 2023, expert researchers from ITS are in Geneva, Switzerland, where they are collaborating with colleagues from all over the world to reach consensus about improvements to the International Telecommunication...

New First-of-Its-Kind Report Provides Analysis of Early CBRS Deployment Data

May 1, 2023

Today ITS released the report “ An Analysis of Aggregate CBRS SAS Data from April 2021 to January 2023,”...

Recent Publications

NTIA Technical Memo TM-23-569: COCRID: A Challenging Optical Character Recognition Image Dataset August 2023, Robert Grosso; Margaret H. Pinson. This memorandum provides technical details for the image quality experiment COCRID: A Challenging Optical Character Recognition Dataset. The design goals of the COCRID dataset are (1) to train no-refe...
NTIA Technical Memo TM-23-568: 5G Challenge Preliminary Event: Evaluating Modular, Interoperable, Multi-Vendor, Open RAN Solutions May 2023, Margaret H. Pinson; Mark Poletti; Julie E. Kub; Jeremy Glenn; Tim Thompson; Robert Kupsh; Naser Areqat; Okmar Dharmadhikari; Annie George; T. Lauriston Hardin; Cory Johnson; Spiros Kapoulas; Sundar Sriram. Today’s mobile wireless networks comprise many proprietary solutions with custom, closed-source software and hardware. Changes to these proprietary elements require complex and meticulous verification...

This Month in ITS History

September 1952: NBS Chief Called Before House Un-American Activities Committee

On September 5, 1952 Ed Condon, former chief of the National Bureau of Standards, made his second appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) at the behest of Senator Richard Vail. Condon had made political enemies on the committee with his unapologetic demands for civilian control of atomic energy and his support of international organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an organization dedicated to sharing scientific discoveries between the US and USSR. The Committee was especially interested in investigating Truman appointees who were involved with nuclear secrets, and Condon fit the bill perfectly. ...