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NTIA applauds the FCC's initiative on Promoting the Development of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Technologies and Solutions. The Commission is seeking to understand and solve the challenges facing the Nation’s current Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) system. NTIA submits the attached “Inventory of Complementary, Alternative, and Augmentative PNT Solutions” to aid this important work.

As directed by the 2023 National Spectrum Strategy (NSS), the frequency band 18.1-18.6 GHz (the “18 GHz band”) was identified for study for expanded federal and non-federal satellite operations, consistent with the United States position at the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23). WRC-23 concluded on December 23, 2023, adding co-primary space-to-space allocations for the intersatellite service (ISS) in this band.

In opening this inquiry, the Federal Communications Commission grapples with vulnerabilities in a bedrock United States Government-provided technology, the Global Positioning System (GPS). 

The Commission’s “whole of government” approach aligns with Executive Branch operations, authorities and initiatives. In these comments, NTIA highlights the key roles Federal agencies play in sustaining and improving Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services.

Summary

This notice announces a public meeting for providing input to spectrum band studies directed by the National Spectrum Strategy and National Spectrum Strategy Implementation Plan, which instructed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to establish a multistakeholder forum for non-Federal stakeholders to engage with the Federal agencies conducting the studies. This is the first of what NTIA expects will be a series of public multistakeholder meetings held approximately every other month.