The Cost of Readiness

摘要

When we talk about reallocating spectrum assignments from the Defense Department for publicuse, it is easy to think that as long as key systems are protected, other frequency losses are really justinconveniences. For example, if I own radio frequencies for a six-channel radio and two RF channelsare reallocated, that means I still have four channels available. In normal operations it may be truethat the military can get by with reduced spectrum access, but when discussing training andreadiness, reduced spectrum access can degrade our ability to train as we fight.