ICYMI: Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on How Spectrum Sharing Helps Protect U.S. Security
For Immediate Release
August 26, 2024
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In Case You Missed It – Mike Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of State, authored a column for Fox News on the importance of American leadership in advanced technologies and the value of dynamic spectrum sharing for preserving America’s national security interests.
Throughout Secretary Pompeo’s career, he has gained first-hand knowledge on how the United States utilizes spectrum to meet a variety of needs. He has frequently offered his informed perspective on the future of America’s spectrum use, saying that “as technology evolves, so does the urgency of the threat. The United States needs to be a leader in the fight against Huawei’s pursuit of cellular domination, and that begins by providing the world with a better model that is freer and less susceptible to the threat posed by Huawei and ZTE.”
Read more from Mike Pompeo below.
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Future Of US Security Depends On ‘Spectrum Sharing’
Fox News
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
August 23, 2024
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/future-us-security-depends-spectrum-sharing
While patrolling the Iron Curtain in the 1980s, I saw firsthand the importance of American leadership, the value of strong alliances, and the moral strength that springs from our national values. I also saw something more basic:
Our security depends on the United States maintaining an edge in advanced technologies. Our advantage on the battlefield wasn’t in numbers; it was in having better and more sophisticated tools with which to destroy the enemy, and a fighting force that was truly lethal in its ability to use those tools.
Even then, state-of-the-art wireless technologies enabled the reconnaissance, radar and communications capabilities that kept my unit informed of fast-changing threats. Four decades later, wireless technologies remain a crucial enabler of our national security, especially for missile defense and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, which rely on our military’s access to specific spectrum bands.
Right now, Congress is in the process of deciding how access to these bands will be allocated in the future, and the choices it makes will have major ramifications for our national security and economic prosperity. It is crucial that Congress gets this right.