The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces a collaboration between PAWR platform POWDER and industry innovator Mavenir to test a first-of-its-kind O-RAN 5G SA network deployment with millimeter Wave (mmWave) spectrum. The solution is powered by Mavenir’s open radio unit (O-RU), open distributed unit (O-DU), open centralized unit (O-CU), and 5G core. The team has successfully completed “first call” with the setup and is prepared to begin extensive testing and evaluation against a variety of user devices.

US Ignite seeks proposals from vendors to supply and install ruggedized electronic equipment in emergency vehicles at Fort Moore (FMGA) in support of installation modernization efforts on the base.

US Ignite is releasing this Request for Information (RFI) to collect feedback from industry about the available technologies and key considerations for demonstrating an Installation Operations Tool live at Fort Moore, GA.

Three winners are taking home $8,000 in competition prizes in the AFAR challenge. This is first in a series of new drone competitions that AERPAW will host.

US Ignite seeks a qualified video services provider to collaborate with us to build a video library to inspire and empower local tech entrepreneurs in the DC-area as part of our InnovateDMV project.

This post first appeared on www.advancedwireless.org   POWDER, ARA, and Colosseum join COSMOS as official Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTICs)

President Joe Biden nominated Anna M. Gomez for the fifth commissioner position at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this week. Gomez is a highly experienced and motivated telecommunications attorney.

US Ignite seeks vendor quotes to provide occupancy data on commercial and military facilities at Fort Benning sourced from mobile location data aggregators. Quotations are due May 24, 2023.

This post first appeared on www.advancedwireless.org   Build your own experiments on an outdoor open source 5G network

The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces $2.8 million in new funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) as it continues its mission to accelerate wireless innovation through the shared resource of advanced network testbeds. The new funding aligns with rising global interest in wireless research facilities and underscores the value of programs that expand researcher access to sophisticated and adaptive network testing environments.