KU Serves as Subcontractor for New Award Announced by the National Spectrum Consortium
The National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), in partnership with the Department of War (DoW), announced the selection of Peraton Labs as the first project awardee under the Advanced Spectrum Coexistence (ASC) Demonstration program, previously known as Advanced Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Demonstration (ADSSD).
For this effort, Peraton Labs has partnered with several innovative companies and universities, including the University of Kansas. ANDRO Computational Solutions, Nexcepta, Inc., and Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation (VT-ARC) round out the other partners. Funds to implement the project, which has a total value of just over $10 million, will be awarded through NSC’s prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA).
According to the NSC’s website, the “ASC Demonstration was created by the DoW to validate and showcase spectrum sharing solutions with the intent to strengthen both national security and economic competitiveness. For the first time, the White House has listed spectrum sharing as a critical and emerging technology among its R&D budgetary priorities, stating under the category of Advanced Communications Networks that research efforts should focus on AI techniques optimized for wireless systems, novel approaches to spectrum sharing, and application of AI to communications and cybersecurity, toward the goal of secure and trusted applications.”
KU’s participation in the ASC project will be managed through the university’s Radar Systems Laboratory (RSL) by Patrick McCormick, assistant professor and assistant scientist in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). McCormick will serve as the primary investigator for KU’s part in the project, which will focus on 5g communications interference mitigation for S-band radar systems. RSL is one of six centers of research that comprise KU’s Institute for Information Sciences (I2S). The research mission of I2S is to sustain and grow national leadership in the creation, dissemination, and commercialization of new technologies in computer systems, communication systems, and radar systems.