2016年机构行业合作小组委员会报告和建议

June 8, 2016 Responses - Executive Summary Question…Page 2 Responses - Complete Question…Page 3 Subcommittee Members Marty CooperTom Dombrowsky, Co-ChairDavid DonovanHarold FeldMark GibsonJanice ObuchowskiCharla RathSteve Sharkey, Co-ChairMariam SorondJennifer WarrenRangam Subramanian, NTIA LiaisonDave Reed, NTIA Liaison Executive Summary Question:How should traditional regulatory approaches change to better leverage andincorporate direct federal agency-to-industry collaboration, negotiation, and coordination toenable greater spectrum sharing? Recommendations:The subcommittee engaged in several investigations of potential avenuesfor changes in the traditional regulatory approaches that would better enable collaboration. Ingeneral, the subcommittee believes that there are very few issues affecting collaboration, but hasfocused its recommendations on enabling better sharing of sensitive information between agencyand industry stakeholders. The subcommittee makes the following recommendations: Investigate Other Government/Non-Government Structures For Collaboration – TheNational Spectrum Consortium (“NSC”) and the National Advanced Spectrum andCommunications Test Network (“NASCTN”) should both be studied by the NTIA aspotential models for technical data sharing between government/non-governmententities. The subcommittee has determined that both of these entities have been able toallow sharing of protected information.Review Other Government FACA Efforts For Potential Methods For Better InformationSharing – Other FACA governmental bodies should be reviewed by NTIA that haveallowed the sharing of classified/protected information between the government and non-government.Thesubcommittee has identified examples of advisory committeesorganized under FACA that have beenable to have discussions of secret/classifiedinformation. Responses - Complete Question Question:How should traditional regulatory approaches change to better leverage andincorporate direct federal agency-to-industry collaboration, negotiation, and coordination toenable greater spectrum sharing? Response.The subcommittee work evolved from discussions from another subcommittee thatwas focused on transitional sharing as well as the working group process that was convened underthe auspices of the CSMAC to provide technical analyses of sharing in the 1695-1710 MHz and1755-1850 MHz spectrum bands. These two prior efforts made clear that it would be beneficial tofind a way to make discussions between government and industry stakeholders on spectrumissues occur on a regular, routine basis. Such multi-stakeholder discussions were successful inhelping to develop collaborative approaches for the 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780 MHz and 3550-3650MHz spectrum bands. Each of these spectrum bands have since had FCC proceedings completed. The subcommittee also reached out to the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to discuss collaboration efforts that theseFederal agencies have been engaged in with the commercial industry. These discussions revealedthat, in general, collaboration among agencies and industry have been possible – but the mainissues remained allowing access to classified/secret information when required to performdetailed engineering/technical studies. Additionally, the subcommittee felt that the other pressing issue revolved around bidirectionalsharing of spectrum – an issue that is being handled as a part of a separate CSMAC subcommittee.As such, the subcommittee determined that focusing the work of the group on a specific task –access to sensitive information by the industry – would be the most productive. In light of the information gathered, the subcommittee believes that there may be an opportunityfor NTIA to modify existing regulatory approaches to enable more seamless sharing of sensitiveinformation between agencies and the industry. In particular, the subcommittee makes thefollowing recommendations: 1.NTIA should explore whether the NSC or NASCTN models can be utilized forsharing of sensitive information with the commercial industry. To further investigate this issue, the subcommittee had separate discussions with the Departmentof Defense (“DoD”), the National Spectrum Consortium (“NSC”), and the National AdvancedSpectrum and Communications Test Network (“NASCTN”) to determine the issues surroundingthe sharing of sensitive information. DoD Discussion.DoD noted that, in general, sharing of sensitive information may be possibleso long as the parties to the information were vetted, limited, and subject to non-disclosureagreements. However, this would not extend to classified information – access to that information would still require a security clearance and a Federal agency sponsor prior to anyinformation being shared. NSC Discussion.The subcommittee had a conference call with Ellen Purdy and Mica Dolan,representatives of the NSC. The NSC indicated that there were n