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April 2, 2020: ITS Releases Open Metadata Extensions for Sharing and Reusing RF Measurement Data
May 9, 2019: ITS Open Sources P.528 Software Implementation
March 10, 2019: Expanding Spectrum Use: Detecting and Avoiding Radar Signals
November 26, 2018: Measurement Best Practices
August 7, 2018: Record Attendance at ISART 2018 Shows Importance of Accurate Radio Propagation Modeling
April 24, 2018:Interference Protection Criteria Simulation: A first presentation of ITS work
February 23, 2018: Spectrum Efficiency Metrics: A New Report
January 2018: New Research Report on Speech Intelligibility
August 2017: Over 150 Attended ISART 2017
April 2017: ITS Open Sources the Extended-Hata Urban Propagation Model
March 2017: Research Spotlight: A Promising Crowdsourcing Research Experiment
March 2017: Save The Date! ISART 2017
February 2017: ITS Hosts Tactical Encryption and Key Management Workshop
December 2016: Research Spotlight: Speech Intelligibility
November 2016: ITS at MILCOM
October 2016: ITS Audio Quality Engineers Receive DoC Silver Medal Award; ITS 2015 Outstanding Publications Awards Presented
September 2016: Director's Post: Lessons from ISART
August 2016: ISART 2016 Attendance Hit 160
April 2016: New Report Outlines Possible Roadmap to Further Sharing of the 3.5 GHz Band
March 2016: Register Now: Two upcoming meetings jointly hosted by ITS and NIST’s Communications Technology Laboratory
September 30, 2015: New Report Describes Speech Intelligibility Testing of LTE Codecs
September 29, 2015: Ten ITS Researchers Receive Department of Commerce Honor Awards
July 31, 2015: ITS Research Helps Emergency Responders Better Communicate While Indoors
July 2015: PMW Featured in GIS 'Zine
June 2015: Report Describing Analysis to Reduce 3.5 GHz Exclusion Zones Released
May 2015: ITS Welcomes New Director; ISART 2015 A Success
April 2015: Reports Examine the Effect of Broadband Radio Service Reallocation on 2900-3100 MHz Marine Radars
January 2015: Registration Opens for ISART 2015
October 2014: ITS Author Shares in QoMEX Win
July 2014: New Reports Explore LTE-Radar Interference in 3.5 GHz Band
June 2014: PSCR Hosts 2014 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Conference
April 2014: Latest Spectrum Measurement Report Released
March 2014: 2014 VQiPS Workshop
February 2014: New Software Released to GitHub
January 2014: NTIA/ITS News
August 2013: Taking Stock at Mid-Year
May 2013: ITS Staff Honored by NPSTC
May 2013: Audio Clip Library Released
January 2013: Eight ITS Employees Receive U.S. Department of Commerce Awards
June 2012: ITS Engineer Honored by NPSTC
May 2012: ITS Engineer Honored by ATIS
NTIA and DoC Blog Postings
October 16, 2020: NTIA Trusted Propagation Models Help Expand Commercial Wireless Services
October 7, 2020: Spotlight on Commerce: Brian Gomez, IT Specialist, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
August 25, 2020: ITS Challenges Creators to Enhance Computer Vision for Public Safety
August 4, 2020: ISART 2020 Conference Set for Aug. 11-13 in Boulder
June 8, 2020: NTIA Releases Spectrum Occupancy Data to Help Enable Successful Sharing in the Mid-Band
January 3, 2020: ITS Marks Next Milestone Toward Spectrum Sharing in 3.5 GHz
November 19, 2019: ITS to Present Precision Measurements Tutorial at IEEE Conference
July 19, 2019: Final Tests Completed on 3.5 GHz Spectrum Sharing Model
June 25, 2019: Spectrum Sharing Testing Reports Shared with SAS Administrators
May 29, 2019: ITU Adopts NTIA Software as Global Standard for Coordinating Spectrum Sharing
May 1, 2019: Spectrum Sharing Model Gaining Ground
May 1, 2019: How NTIA Research Powered a Groundbreaking Spectrum Sharing Effort
December 12, 2018: ITS Marks Next Milestone Toward Spectrum Sharing in 3.5 GHz
November 26, 2018: ITS Releases Best Practices Handbook for Propagation Measurements
November 5, 2018: Moving Closer to Making Spectrum Sharing at 3.5 GHz a Reality
August 7, 2018: Record Attendance at ISART 2018 Shows Importance of Accurate Radio Propagation Modeling
June 27, 2018: Join the Spectrum Conversations at ISART 2018
May 1, 2018: ISART 2018 to Examine Propagation Challenges with Ultra-Dense Wireless Systems
April 25, 2018: Making the Case for Using Computer Simulations to Gauge Spectrum Interference
April 12, 2018: NTIA Signs Agreement for Wireless Test Bed Study in Partnership with University of Colorado Boulder
March 5, 2018: ITS Spectrum Efficiency Report Examines the Past, Looks to the Future for New Solutions
October 18, 2017: ITS Research Offers New Avenues for Improving Speech Recognition in Wireless Communications
July 11, 2017: Annual Spectrum Symposium Will Examine Millimeter Waves
May 1, 2017: ITS Releases Key Software Model to Boost Collaborative Spectrum-Sharing Research
November 2, 2016: Understanding Spectrum Clutter—It’s Not About Neatness!
August 15, 2016: ISART 2016 Energizes the Conversation on Spectrum Forensics
July 28, 2016: Annual Conference Will Explore Spectrum Forensics
April 1, 2016: New Report Outlines Possible Roadmap to Further Sharing of the 3.5 GHz Band
October 30, 2015: Spotlight on NTIA: Billy Kozma, computer engineer, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
September 30, 2015: New Research Details Ways to Improve Voice Quality of Emergency Communications
September 30, 2015: NTIA Employees Win Top Departmental Awards
August 17, 2015: Sustaining ITS Technical Expertise through the Senior Technical Fellow Program
July 31, 2015: Innovative Research Helps Emergency Responders Better Communicate While Indoors
April 14, 2015: Technical Studies to Support Examination of Sharing Options in the 2900-3100 MHz Band
December 2, 2014: Spotlight on NTIA: Joel Dumke, Electronics Engineer, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
July 18, 2014: New Technical Reports Evaluate Spectrum Sharing in 3.5 GHz Band
January 10, 2014: Exploring Spectrum Sharing Through Technical Studies
December 30, 2013: Spotlight on NTIA: Frank Sanders, Chief of the Telecommunications Theory Division, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
May 31, 2013: PSCR Releases Audio Files for Intelligibility Testing
January 29, 2013: Testing by NTIA's ITS Paves the Way for First Responder Broadband Interoperability
June 21, 2012: Honoring David (DJ) Atkinson
March 15, 2012: Supporting our First Responders' Communications Needs
February 2, 2012: Save the Date: 13th Annual ISART Scheduled for July 25-26, 2012 at ITS in Boulder, Colorado
Press Releases
2011 - NTIA to Host International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies
2010 - NTIA/ITS Launches Its First Telecommunications Science Video Series for the Public
2010 - NTIA To Host International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies
2008 - NTIA/ITS Receives Gold Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
2006 - NTIA/ITS Receives Gold Medal for Enhancement of Public Safety Communications
2006 - NTIA/ITS Receives Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
2005 - NTIA/ITS Releases New In-Service Video Quality Monitoring (IVQM) Tool
2005 - NTIA/ITS Receives Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
2003 - NTIA/ITS Digital Video Quality Metric Takes Top Performing Spot