Fergie's Tech Blog

DoD Needs More Than a Few Good Spectrum Managers

Deconfliction? Is that a real word?

Bob Brewin writes on FCW.com:

The Defense Department’s radio frequency spectrum is an invisible and finite resource that is so critical to network-centric warfare that the Navy has allowed 250 electronic warfare officers to work with the Army to manage deconfliction issues in Iraq, said John Grimes, DOD chief information officer and assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration.

He gave a keynote speech here at the AFCEA’s Defense Spectrum Summit Dec. 6.

The Army considers spectrum management so important it has decided to develop a primary Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) for spectrum managers and expects approval of that new career field soon, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Foley, the Army’s director of architecture, operations and space, told the conference attendees.

posted by Fergie @ 12/07/2006 10:49:00 AM