NSF Wireless Spectrum Research and Development Senior Steering Group Workshop

国家信息技术研发（NITRD）计划的无线频谱研发（WSRD）高级指导小组（SSG）是根据奥巴马总统2010年6月关于“释放无线宽带革命"的备忘录成立的。“WSRD的目的是执行总统备忘录第3条，该条指示商务部长“与国家标准与技术研究所、国家科学基金会（NSF）、国防部、司法部、NASA和其他适当的机构协商，制定和实施一项计划，以促进研究、开发、实验、并由研究人员进行测试，以探索创新的频谱共享技术，包括那些安全和有弹性的技术。虽然WSRD是联邦政府的一个委员会，但它与私营企业、公共安全、学术研究人员以及州和地方政府密切协调其活动，因为这些部门是频谱需求、研究和开发的主要驱动力。它通过一系列讲习班来开展这项工作，所有这些团体的代表都参加了讲习班。到目前为止，已经举办了两次研讨会：第一次于2011年7月在科罗拉多州博尔德举行，重点是在更广泛的背景下协调当前和未来的联邦频谱&研发组合;第二次是2012年1月在加州伯克利，这是一个关于需要一个国家的讨论-前两次研讨会的一个挑战是，由于缺乏差旅费，一些部门的代表人数不够多，而且代表人数不一。第三次研讨会将于2012年7月在科罗拉多州博尔德举行，将为受邀与会者提供有限的差旅费，否则他们可能难以出席。将优先考虑改善讲习班参加者的性别和种族多样性。旅行补助金计划将由位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学的蒂莫西·布朗博士领导，他是研讨会组委会的主要成员。

The Wireless Spectrum R&D (WSRD) Senior Steering Group (SSG) of the National Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program was stood up as a result of President Obama's June 2010 memorandum on "Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution." WSRD's purpose is to implement section 3 of the presidential memorandum, which directs the Secretary of Commerce, "in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, NASA, and other agencies as appropriate, [to] create and implement a plan to facilitate research, development, experimentation, and testing by researchers to explore innovative spectrum-sharing technologies, including those that are secure and resilient." WSRD facilitates coordination and information exchange regarding federal government research in the spectrum domain.Although WSRD is a committee of the federal government, it closely coordinates its activities with private industry, public safety, academic researchers, and state and local governments, as these sectors are major drivers of spectrum requirements, research, and development. It does so through a series of workshops which include the participations of representatives of all of these groups. Two workshops have been held so far: The first in Boulder, CO, in July 2011, which concentrated on coordinating the current and future federal spectrum R&D portfolio within the broader context; and the second in Berkeley, CA, in January 2012, which undertook a discussion of the need for a national-level wireless testbed capability.A challenge with the previous two workshops was getting adequate and diverse representation from some sectors, because of the lack of travel funds. In this third workshop, to be held in Boulder, CO, in July 2012, limited travel funds will be available to invited participants who might otherwise have difficulty attending. Priority will be given to improving the gender and racial diversity of the workshop participants. The travel grant program will be led by Dr. Timothy Brown of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who is a key member of the workshop organizing committee.