As the recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq can attest, the DoD achieves much of its military capability from exploiting technology, especially information technology.
Spectrum 101: An Introduction to Spectrum Management
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As the recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq can attest, the DoD achieves much of its military capability from exploiting technology, especially information technology. Military capability is dependent on spectrum availability and the current military transformation will make it more dependent in the future. Unless the DoD manages spectrum smartly it will forfeit its potential capability. This document provides a broad background of the issues in spectrum management so that personnel who work in DoD spectrum management organizations, members of government and DoD who make decisions affecting the allocation and allotment of spectrum, and DoD program managers who oversee the development of spectrum-dependent systems can better grasp the complexity of spectrum management and their role in protecting military access to spectrum and developing and acquiring systems that use it efficiently. This document provides a repository of basic concepts that are relevant to these tasks so that players in spectrum management activities can perform these functions most effectively.