Future of US security depends on ‘spectrum sharing’
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While patrolling the Iron Curtain in the 1980s, I saw firsthand the importance of American leadership, the value of strong alliances, and the moral strength that springs from our national values. I also saw something more basic:
Our security depends on the United States maintaining an edge in advanced technologies. Our advantage on the battlefield wasn’t in numbers; it was in having better and more sophisticated tools with which to destroy the enemy, and a fighting force that was truly lethal in its ability to use those tools.
Even then, state-of-the-art wireless technologies enabled the reconnaissance, radar and communications capabilities that kept my unit informed of fast-changing threats. Four decades later, wireless technologies remain a crucial enabler of our national security, especially for missile defense and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
