Why and how much is the Pentagon investing in 6G?
The US Department of Defense has been investing in 5G for years, but now the Pentagon is supporting an effort focused on 6G research and technologies. All the details in the article by Giuseppe Gagliano
As telecom companies struggle to complete the transition to the fifth generation mobile standard, or 5G, the Pentagon is supporting an effort focused on 6G research and technologies.
The Department of Defense on August 2 said it had invested $ 1.77 million for Open6G industry-university cooperation, which will serve as a hub for development, testing and integration and "aims to restart research on systems 6G on open radio access networks ”or Open RAN. The Open6G enterprise is part of the defense community's Innovate Beyond 5G program, under the remit of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
Open6G is run by Northeastern University's Kostas Research Institute along with the United States Army Research Laboratory.
The Department of Defense has been investing in 5G for years. The fifth generation of wireless technologies – now available to hundreds of millions of Americans, with Verizon, AT&T and other operators spending billions of dollars to rapidly expand their 5G networks – promotes faster speeds and the ability to host advanced devices.
However, the Government Accountability Office pointed out that 5G also presents cybersecurity problems.
Military leaders have promoted 5G, as a means to better connect forces on the battlefield and carry vital information between them, according to the excellent strategy of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control.
The Department of Defense secured approximately $ 338 million for 5G and microelectronics in fiscal year 2022. It requested $ 250 million for fiscal year 2023. The department finally announced an investment of $ 600 in 2020. millions of dollars in 5G tests to be done in certain military installations.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/perche-e-quanto-investe-il-pentagono-sul-6g/ on Sun, 14 Aug 2022 05:02:43 +0000.