Trouble Ahead for Military Radars at S-Band

Trouble Ahead for Military Radars at S-Band
Kim Shiflett/NASA
Rebecca Grant
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The U.S. military is heading for a big, new problem with its radars. To meet soaring demand for TikTok videos and other apps running on 5G, Congress is under pressure to sell off prime slices of the radio wave spectrum at a frequency location called S-band—thereby forcing military defense systems to cozy up and “share” with commercial wireless companies.

Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant
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Rebecca Grant, Ph.D., is a national security analyst and vice president, defense programs for the Lexington Institute, a nonprofit public-policy research organization in Arlington, Virginia. She has held positions at the Pentagon, in the private sector and has led an aerospace and defense consultancy.
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