2022年美国国家电信管理局频谱政策研讨会

As most of you know, our office works with the NTIA front office and our colleagues at theInstitute of Telecommunications Sciences – that's our Boulder research lab – to develop andimplement spectrum policies we are going to discuss at the event today. We are very pleased and happy with these discussions, which I'm confident you will find veryinteresting and productive. The Symposium has obtained a kind of unique spot in the calendar this year, coming up rightafter Labor Day, as everyone returns here to DC and the fall season gets under way. You mightthink of it as a spectrum homecoming of sorts, and perhaps even more so after we're comingback from COVID. NTIA holds a symposium each year to bring the policymaking community and individualstogether to take stock of our work of managing the nation's most vital resource, spectrum. Weare grateful to have this wonderful cross-section of keynotes and panelists with us today, boththis morning and also in the afternoon. Just briefly, going over the schedule for today, we're pleased to have in a few moments theDepartment of Commerce Secretary speak, following by the NTIA Assistant Secretary. We'llhave a couple of panel discussions focusing on digital strategy, and then right in the middle ofthat we're very pleased to have the CIO of the DoD, John Sherman. We'll take a break for lunch around 12:30, come back in around an hour, around 1:30 or so,where we'll pick up with some Congressional members. We're very pleased to have remarks bySenator Luján and also Senator Wicker this afternoon. After those remarks, we'll have a keynote by Doreen Bogdan-Martin from theTelecommunications Development Bureau with ITU. And then we'll pick up our paneldiscussions again for the remainder of the afternoon, including focusing on the WRC, which hiscoming up in the not too distant future, and also with US Coast Guard Space Operations. In between those panel discussions, we'll also have a keynote address by NASA. So don't let me hold up the activities starting right now. Let me introduce the NTIA AssistantSecretary Alan Davidson. Alan. [laughter] ALAN DAVIDSON:Thank you, Charles. And good morning, everybody, and welcome. Weare so glad to be here and to have you all here. I'll just say, before I give my opening remarks, Ihave the honor, actually, of introducing who will be our first speaker, my boss, the Secretary ofCommerce Gina Raimondo. We are extremely fortunate, I will say, at the Commerce Departmentto have a leader like Secretary Raimondo. I am particularly grateful for her support of NTIA. Herleadership and the occasional whipping, I will say [laughter], of our efforts has been fundamentalto our ability to tackle the big issues in front of us – closing the digital divide, connectingeveryone in America with highspeed, affordable internet service, advancing America'scompetitiveness in this space, promoting digital equity, creating thousands of good-paying jobsand a more diverse workforce, charting a path for continued innovation in the world. I know that she cares deeply about our nation's continued leadership on spectrum issues, and Isuspect you may hear more about that shortly. So please join me in welcoming our first keynote,Secretary Raimondo. [applause] GINA RAIMONDO:Good morning, everybody. We are excited to be hosting this event. Ihave to say I feel very fortunate to have Alan as the leader. He's incredible. We went to lawschool together many years ago, so I've known for a long time how brilliant this guy is. And 30years later, we've figured out a way to work together. But you're doing a fantastic job, you andyour whole team, and I can't thank you enough. I often say that everything we do at the Commerce Department is around enhancing America'scompetitiveness. The Commerce Department is a broad grab-bag of things – NOAA, spacecommerce, ITA, NTIA. But the through line is competitiveness. Everything that we do is aimedat enhancing America's ability to compete in the world – our entrepreneurs to compete, our bigbusinesses to compete, our small businesses to compete. And the work of NTIA fits in perfectlywith that. So we are now hard to work implementing the nearly $50 billion that Congress sent to theCommerce Department, to NTIA, to make sure that every single American has internet –affordable, highspeed internet. And Alan and his team are doing an incredible job implementingthe Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. And that's about competitiveness. How can you compete ifyou can't work from home or go to the doctor with telemedicine, et cetera? So that's core tocompetitiveness. The same is true for the CHIPS Act, which we are now implementing. Congress also sent about$50 billion to the Commerce Department to implement the CHIPS Act. Chips are in everything.We're utterly reliant on Taiwan for our chips, and so this is about improving Americanmanufacturing and ensuring that we are self-reliant when it comes to this critical piece oftechnology. Well, the same is true about sp