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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Communications Technology Laboratory of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21828.
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Acronyms

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
5G fifth generation
ACT ancillary terrestrial component
AWS advanced wireless services
BAS broadcast auxiliary service
CAC Center for Advanced Communications
CRADA cooperative research and development agreement
CRPL Central Radio Propagation Laboratory
CTL Communications Technology Laboratory
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DOC Department of Commerce
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DSRC Dedicated Short Range Communication
ETRI Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FirstNet First Responder Network Authority
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
INS2I Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies
IoT Internet of Things
ISO International Standards Organization
ITS Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
ITU International Telecommunication Union
LAN local area network
LTE long-term evolution
MAN metropolitan area network
MIMO multiple input-multiple output
mm-wave millimeter wave
Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Communications Technology Laboratory of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21828.
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NASCTN National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network
NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSA National Security Agency
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
OSM Office of Spectrum Management
PCAST President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
PML Physical Measurement Laboratory
PMW propagation modeling website
PNT positioning, navigation, and timing
PSCR Public Safety Communications Research Program
QAM quadrature amplitude modulation
R&D research and development
RF radio frequency
SDARS Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service
SDO Standards Development Organizations
U-NII unlicensed national information infrastructure
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
VCAT Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WLAN wireless local area network
Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Communications Technology Laboratory of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21828.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Communications Technology Laboratory of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21828.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Communications Technology Laboratory of the Department of Commerce: Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21828.
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The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus: the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA's) Institute for Telecommunications Sciences (ITS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL). CTL develops appropriate measurements and standards to enable interoperable public safety communications, effective and efficient spectrum use and sharing, and advanced communication technologies.

CTL is a newly organized laboratory within NIST, formed mid-2014. As it is new and its planned work represents a departure from that carried out by the elements of which it was composed, this study focuses on its available resources and future plans rather than past work.

The Boulder telecommunications laboratories currently play an important role in the economic vitality of the country and can play an even greater role given the importance of access to spectrum and spectrum sharing to the wireless networking and mobile cellular industries. Research advances are needed to ensure the continued evolution and enhancement of the connected world the public has come to expect.

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