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October 17, 2024: Inaugural International Open RAN Symposium (IORS) Opens Global Conversation

The inaugural International Open RAN Symposium (IORS) convened September 17–19, 2024, in Golden, Colorado, United States of America. NTIA welcomed over 250 participants at the inaugural Symposium from...

July 22, 2024: Real World Solutions for Improving Audio Quality in Virtual Conference Settings

ITS has released a new technical memorandum titled “Joint Analyses of No-Reference Speech Quality Estimation Tools and Conference Speech Recorded in Diverse Real-World Conditions.” This work started i...

April 1, 2024: 2024 RIC Forum a Smashing Success

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 governme...

May 6, 2024: 5G Challenge Closes with Successful Multi-Vendor Handover

November 13, 2023 The goal of the two-year 5G Challenge was to accelerate the adoption of 5G open interfaces, interoperable subsystems, secure networks, and multi-vendor solutions, by fostering a larg...

September 1, 2023: Shining a Spotlight on ITS Interns

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 USAJOBS, the F...

May 25, 2023: New ITS Contributions Supporting International Radio Standards Continue One-hundred-year-old Tradition

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 Internatio...

April 28, 2023: 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,” which presents an analysis of aggregate Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Spec...

March 13, 2023: Dr. Bob Johnk Chosen as IEEE EMC Distinguished Lecturer

March 21, 2023 ITS electronics engineer Dr. Robert T. Johnk, named a Life Senior Member of the IEEE based on his sustained and lasting contributions to the IEEE EMC Society, was selected as a Disting...

February 27, 2023: ITS Supports VQEG in Advancing Discussions of International Standards for Critical and Emerging Video Technologies

February 28, 2023 The ITS Video Quality Research group yesterday hosted virtual meetings of the No-Reference (NR) Metrics (NORM) working group, one of the current Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) p...

October 11, 2022: New Technical Report Describes Spectrum Measurements to Address EMC between Radar Altimeters and 5G

The introduction of Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) systems in the US between 3700 and 3980 MHz has raised concerns about electromagnetic compatibility with airborne radar altimeter (radalt) receiv...

August 11, 2022: ITS Research Showcased at IEEE EMC+SIPI 2022

August 8, 2022 On August 2, 2022 at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity, one of the oldest and largest conferences of its kind, ITS Ele...

April 8, 2022: Tradeoffs Between Bit-rate and Video Quality

October 1, 2021 Video streaming is a highly competitive market that dominates internet traffic. Video consumes 65% of worldwide mobile downstream traffic. Upcoming video technologies have steadily inc...

April 8, 2022: New Interactive Demo: Estimating Video Quality

September 16, 2021 The Video Quality Research Program has launched an interactive web demo of ITS-developed software that estimates the quality of images or short videos displayed over...

June 15, 2020: ISART 2020 Presentations Available Now

August 18, 2020 Presentations from the ISART 2020, the International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies: 5G Spectrum and a Zero-Trust Network are now available on the ISART 2020 archive page. St...

April 1, 2020: ITS Releases Open Metadata Extensions for Sharing and Reusing RF Measurement Data

April 2, 2020 The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act, signed into law on January 14, 2019, requires federal agencies to publish their information online as open data, u...

April 5, 2019: Expanding Spectrum Use: Detecting and Avoiding Radar Signals

March 10, 2019 How can we get more use out of the radio spectrum? One way is by sharing radio bands between users who have never shared before. Consider radio frequencies near 3.5 GHz. Until recently,...

May 7, 2019: ITS Open Sources P.528 Reference Software Implementation

May 9, 2019 ITS has a long history of leadership in air-to-ground propagation model development within the International Telecommunications Union – Radiocommunication Sector’s (ITU-R) Study Group 3 –...

November 26, 2018: Measurement Best Practices

Behind every initiative to share spectrum are models of how radio waves in a particular band propagate through different environments. How far will a signal travel before it becomes too faint to be us...

September 14, 2018: Record Attendance at ISART 2018

August 7, 2018 The record attendance (nearly 170 experts from government, academia, and industry) at the 17th International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) demonstrated the deep inter...

June 7, 2018: Interference Protection Criteria Simulation

April 24, 2018 As demand for spectrum for commercial use continues to grow, policymakers are exploring spectrum sharing as a way to expand capacity while still fulfilling the needs of federal agencies...

June 7, 2018: Spectrum Efficiency Metrics: A New Report

February 23, 2018 The Radio Act of 1912 dictated perhaps the first spectrum efficiency requirement when it said that “In all circumstances, except in case of signals or radiograms relating to vessels...

February 6, 2018: ITS Releases New Open-Source Code to Boost Spectrum-Monitoring Research

Spectrum monitoring—long-term continuous measurement of the radio frequency environment from multiple sensors—is widely seen as essential to enabling increased exploitation of spectrum. Monitoring is...

January 3, 2018: New Research Report on Speech Intelligibility

A new NTIA Technical Report, published at the very end of 2017, reports the results of an investigation of speech intelligibility in different radio environments recently completed by ITS’s Audio Qual...

February 6, 2018: ITS Open Sources the Extended-Hata Urban Propagation Model

April 3, 2017  Evolving and improving the science behind spectrum sharing is essential to NTIA’s commitment to meeting the demand for spectrum among federal and commercial users. Just as collaboration...

January 3, 2018: Over 150 Attended ISART 2017

August 21, 2017 Spectrum Mining at Millimeter Waves August 15-17 in Broomfield, Colorado Digging for Capacity: As more spectrum users squeeze into the lower frequency bands, more are also exploring th...

March 21, 2017: Save The Date! ISART 2017

ISART 2017: Spectrum Mining at Millimeter Waves Set for August 15-17 in Broomfield, Colorado Digging for Capacity: As more spectrum users squeeze into the lower frequency bands, more are also explorin...

March 21, 2017: A Promising Crowdsourcing Research Experiment

by Stephen D. Voran The results are in—when it comes to speech intelligibility testing, the crowd and human subjects in a lab have a lot in common. Initial results from a crowdsourced speech intelligi...

March 20, 2017: ITS Hosts Tactical Encryption and Key Management Workshop

February 20, 2017 Today, encryption and key management (E&KM) is a process that can be onerous, difficult, and time-consuming. We hypothesize that advances in processing efficiency and networking...

January 31, 2017: ITS at MILCOM

November 7, 2016 ITS hosted an NTIA booth at MILCOM 2016 November 1-3. On November 1, ITS engineer Chriss Hammerschmidt presented a paper on “Extracting Clutter Metrics From Mobile Propagation Measure...

August 8, 2016: Summer 2016: Propagation Measurement Workshops and ISART 2016

July 5, 2016 Propagation Measurements Workshop Webinars Scheduled for July 7, 14, and 28, and August 11 ITS will host a series of four webinars in July for researchers from government, academia, and i...

April 22, 2016: New Report Outlines Possible Roadmap to Further Sharing of the 3.5 GHz Band

April 24, 2016 In a recently released report, engineers from ITS and NTIA’s Office of Spectrum Management (OSM) propose a simple and robust method to implement spectrum sharing between commercial comm...

April 22, 2016: Register Now: Two upcoming meetings ...

Register Now: Two upcoming meetings jointly hosted by ITS and NIST’s Communications Technology Laboratory Registration is Open for the Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Meeting June 7-9, 2016, in Sa...

January 31, 2017: Research Spotlight: Speech Intelligibility

December 2016 Speech intelligibility is one of the primary requirements the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPTSC) Broadband Working Group defined for mission critical voice service...

October 3, 2016: ISART 2016 Attendance Hit 160

August 15, 2016 A record-breaking 160 attendees participated in ISART 2016, whose theme was Spectrum Forensics—spectrum measurements that support interference monitoring, investigation, and enforcemen...

October 3, 2016: Lessons from ISART 2016

The record number of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, policy experts and other participants representing government agencies, academic institutions and industry gathered at ISART 2016 really ene...

March 7, 2016: Ten ITS Researchers Receive Department of Commerce Honor Awards

September 29, 2015 Ten ITS researchers have received Department of Commerce (DoC) Gold or Silver Honor Awards for work completed in FY 2014. The awards were presented on September 29, 2015. The Gold a...

September 30, 2015: New Report Describes Speech Intelligibility Testing of LTE Codecs

NTIA Technical Report TR-15-520 Speech Codec Intelligibility Testing in Support of Mission-Critical Voice Applications for LTE, by Steve Voran and Andrew Catellier, released today, describes an effort...

July 31, 2015: ITS Research Helps Emergency Responders Better Communicate While Indoors

Nearly everyone is familiar with the need to step outside a building to complete a wireless call. Modern building materials, such as aluminum, steel and even specially-coated window glass, significant...

July 15, 2015: PMW Featured in GIS 'Zine

An article by Kristen Davis on the development of ITS's new generation of web-based GIS solutions for propagation prediction appeared July 1 in Directions Magazine, an online publication offering geos...

July 15, 2015: Report Describing Analysis to Reduce 3.5 GHz Exclusion Zones Released

June 17, 2015 NTIA’s 2010 Fast Track Report identified the 3.5 GHz band as a possible candidate for spectrum sharing to fulfill the President’s goal of identifying 500 megahertz of additional spectrum...

April 14, 2015: Reports Examine the Effect of Broadband Radio Service Reallocation on 2900-3100 MHz Marine Radars

As announced on the NTIA Blog on April 14, ITS three technical reports just released by ITS describe a multi-year research effort funded by the United States Coast Guard to investigate effects of real...

June 18, 2015: May 2015 ITS News

ITS Welcomes New Director Dr. Keith Gremban, who joined NTIA on Monday, May 18, 2015, as Director of ITS and Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Communications, has been involved in systems enginee...

April 14, 2015: Registration Opens for ISART 2015

January 22, 2015 Registration has opened for ISART 2015, the 14th in the series of high quality symposia bringing together the world's experts on advanced radio systems development. ISART 2015: Measur...

April 14, 2015: ITS Author Shares in QoMEX Win

October 3, 2014 “Subject bias: Introducing a theoretical user model,” a paper co-authored by Professor Lucjan Janowski of the Department of Telecommunication at AGH University of Science and Technolog...

July 18, 2014: New Reports Explore LTE-Radar Interference in 3.5 GHz Band

July 2014 To support the Administration's commitment to making available an additional 500 MHz of spectrum for commercial use by 2020, ITS continues to perform and publish technical studies in bands p...

April 30, 2014: Spectrum Survey Report Series

April 2014 Between June 2011 and September 2012, the ITS Radio Spectrum Measurement Science (RSMS) program carried out a series of five spectrum occupancy measurements as part of ongoing research effo...

July 17, 2014: PSCR Hosts 2014 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Conference

June 2014 The Public Safety Communications Research program hosted its fifth Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Conference June 3-5 in Westminster, CO. Over 550 representatives from public safety, Fe...

March 27, 2014: 2014 VQiPS Workshop Announced

PSCR Announces Fifth Video Quality in Public Safety Workshop April 30 - May 1, 2014 Through the Video Quality in Public Safety (VQiPS) project, public safety practitioners, Federal partners, manufactu...

February 26, 2014: February 2014 ITS News

New, Unique Subjective Testing Software Released to GitHub ITS developed the Web-Enabled Subjective Test (WEST) software to allow researchers to conduct subjective tests on multiple devices with aggre...

January 15, 2014: January 2014 ITS News

VQEG at ITS The Video Quality Experts Group and the ITU Intersector Rapporteur Group on Audiovisual Quality Assessment (IRG-AVQA) met at the ITS facility in Boulder January 21-25, 2014. Arthur Webster...

May 20, 2013: ITS Staff Honored by NPSTC

The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) honored two ITS employees at their May 14, 2013 Committee Meeting in Washington, D.C. ITS engineer Andy Thiessen received the 2013 DJ Atki...

January 22, 2013: Eight ITS Employees Receive U.S. Department of Commerce Awards

Eight ITS employees were presented with U.S. Department of Commerce awards for work performed in FY 2012 at an All Hands Meeting in Boulder on . An interdepartmental team from ITS and the NTIA Office...

June 20, 2012: ITS Engineer Honored by NPSTC

June 21, 2012 NTIA is honored to report that the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) has established the Atkinson Technical Award to commemorate ITS senior engineer David (DJ) At...

June 20, 2012: ITS Engineer Honored by ATIS

May 11, 2012 ITS senior engineer Tim Riley received an Award for Outstanding Contributions to an ATIS Forum or Committee during the 2012 ATIS 9th Annual Meeting of Committees in April. This award is p...