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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. An Assessment of the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25602.
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Acronyms

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
5G Fifth-generation Wireless/Cellular Network
AR augmented reality
AWS advanced wireless services
CAC Center for Advanced Communications
CBRS Citizens Broadband Radio Service
CRADA cooperative research and development agreement
CTL Communications Technology Laboratory
DOC Department of Commerce
DoD Department of Defense
DPA dynamic protection area
EMS emergency medical service
FY fiscal year
FirstNet First Responder Network Authority
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISO International Standards Organization
ISSI Inter-RF Subsystem Interface
ITL Information Technology Laboratory
ITS Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
LAN local area network
LBS Location-Based Services
LMR Land Mobile Radio
LTE long-term evolution
MAN metropolitan area network
MCV Mission-Critical Voice
MIMO multiple input, multiple output
Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. An Assessment of the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25602.
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NASCTN National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
PML Physical Measurement Laboratory
PSCR Public Safety Communications Research Program
QAM quadrature amplitude modulation
QISE quantum information science and engineering
R&D research and development
RF radio frequency
RFT Radio Frequency Technology Division
SAS Spectrum Access System
UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
UE user equipment
UI user interface
UX user experience
U-NII unlicensed national information infrastructure
VR virtual reality
WN Wireless Networks Division
Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. An Assessment of the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25602.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. An Assessment of the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25602.
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An Assessment of the Communications Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2019 is an independent technical assessment of the quality of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL). It reviews the organization's technical programs, the portfolio of scientific expertise within the organization, the adequacy of the organization's facilities, equipment, and human resources, and the effectiveness by which the organization disseminates its program outputs. This report focuses on CTL priority areas such as public safety communications, trusted spectrum testing, and Next Generation Wireless (5G and Beyond). It also assesses the extent to which CTL applied the recommendations from a 2015 National Academies' report, which describes many of the critical uses of radio communications, provides lab-specific recommendations, and highlights important research priorities for the Boulder, Colorado communications technology laboratory of the Department of Commerce laboratory. This new report also describes the current activities of the Boulder telecommunications laboratories, its strengths and weaknesses as an organization, and its plans for the near future

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