The Center for Strategic and International Studies is gathering a panel composed of a broad range of experts to assess spectrum management and offer recommendations for change at a time when new technologies and services have created a rising demand that outstrips supply of spectrum. New technologies could be exploited to expand the effective use of the spectrum, satisfy growing demand, and create economic growth. However, our organizational and legal structure, inherited from an earlier era, blocks these technologies and impedes innovation and improvement.

Keynote address:

Major General Robert E. Wheeler
Deputy Chief Information Officer for Command, Control, Communications and Computers and Information Infrastructure Capabilities, U.S. Department of Defense

Panel:

Peter A. Tenhula
Deputy Associate Administrator for Spectrum Management, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Tom Power
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CTIA

Julius P. Knapp
Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission

David Redl
Chief Counsel, U.S. Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives

Closing address:

Jessica Rosenworcel
Commissioner,Federal Communications Commission

Moderated by:

Dr. James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS