Trust issues inhibit spectrum sharing, DISA official says

The stakes for radio frequency spectrum are high, and industry and government, particularly the Defense Department, don’t trust each other, a DOD official said today.

Speaking at the Wireless Technology and Security 2007 conference in Washington, D.C., Paige Atkins, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense Spectrum Organization, said the tensions between industry and DOD hinder them from working for the greater good of a well-organized and well-managed spectrum system.

Because spectrum is finite, someone has to give up space so another can gain it, Atkins said. “Somebody’s winning, somebody’s losing.”

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