TRANSITION REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS I.INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1II.NTIA IMPLEMENTATION .............................................................................................. 2 A.Reports and Analysis .............................................................................................. 3B.CSMAC Efforts .................................................................................................... 10C.Test-Bed Implementation...................................................................................... 11D.Steps Toward Improving Interoperability............................................................. 14 III.FCC IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS ............................................................................ 17 A.700 MHz/DTV Transition..................................................................................... 17B.1710-1755 MHz Band........................................................................................... 19C.Spectrum Sharing Innovation Test Bed ................................................................ 21D.Public Safety / 800 MHz Rebanding .................................................................... 21E.1390-1395 and 1432-1435 MHz Band ................................................................. 23F.3650-3700 MHz Band........................................................................................... 24 A.Opportunities Relating to the Spectrum Sharing Test Bed................................... 27B.Opportunities for Government Adoption of Commercial Technologies .............. 28C.Recommendations for Improving the Process for Identifying Spectrum forFuture Reallocation or Sharing ............................................................................. 30D.Report on Spectrum Efficiency............................................................................. 31E.Report on Operational Efficiency ......................................................................... 32F.Streamlining Federal/Non-Federal Sharing of Radio Systems............................. 32G.Transitioning Federal Land Mobile Radio Systems to More SpectrallyEfficient Technologies .......................................................................................... 33H.Recommendations for Further CSMAC Action ................................................... 34 V.CONCLUSION................................................................................................................. 36 COMMERCE SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEETRANSITION REPORT I.INTRODUCTION In May 2003, President George W. Bush established the “Spectrum Policy Initiative”(“SPI”) which called for “a comprehensive review of spectrum management policies . . . with theobjective of identifying recommendations for revising policies and procedures topromote moreefficient and beneficial use of spectrum without harmful interference to critical incumbentusers.”1The U.S. Department of Commerce was specifically directed to prepare legislative andother recommendations to: •Facilitate a modernized and improved spectrum management system;•Facilitate policy changes to create incentives for more efficient and beneficial use ofspectrum and to provide a higher degree of predictability and certainty in thespectrum management process as it applies to incumbent users;•Develop policy tools to streamline the deployment of new and expanded services andtechnologies,while preserving national security,homeland security,and publicsafety, and encouraging scientific research; and•Develop means to address the critical spectrum needs of national security, homelandsecurity, public safety, Federal transportation infrastructure, and science.2 This report summarizes the efforts of the Department of Commerce, through the NationalTelecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”), to implement these directives todate.This report also summarizes related Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or“Commission”) actions. NTIA is an operating unit of the Department of Commerce responsiblefor administering Federal Government use of the radio spectrum, whereas the Commission is anindependent agency responsible for non-Federal use of the radio spectrum.3 II.NTIA IMPLEMENTATION Over the five years since adoption of the SPI, NTIA has taken significant steps toimplement the vision contained therein.It has “proposed an ‘evolutionary’ approach towardspectrum policy” with the ultimate goal being “efficient and effective use of the spectrum and,where appropriate, assured dynamic access to spectrum to be achieved in judicious andincremental steps.”4NTIA’s efforts to advance the SPI and promote more efficient andbeneficialuse of spectrum without harmful interference to critical incumbent users arechronicled below followed by a discussion of the role of the Commerce Spectrum ManagementAdvisory Committee (