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Standards Development and Analysis.
ITS provides ongoing leadership and technical contributions to international, national, and local telecommunication standards committees such as ITU, TIA, ATIS. ITS experts are regularly called on to interpret and analyze standards and regulations.
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Public Safety Communications Interoperability.
ITS works directly with practitioner agencies to improve the intelligibility and interoperability of communication systems. ITS conducts research in the field and in the laboratory to reflect the real environment in which Public Safety operates.
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Table Mountain Field Site.
ITS maintains the Table Mountain Field Site north of Boulder, CO, a unique 1,800 acre designated Radio Quiet Zone and radio research facility that is extensively used for research and experimentation both by ITS and by others under cooperative agreements.
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Radio Spectrum Measurement Science (RSMS).
The RSMS system is a customized resource for the performance of fundamental theoretical and applied research. The RSMS-4G truck is a state-of-the-art mobile measurement laboratory used to measure spectrum occupancy and analyze interference problems.
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Audio and Video Quality Research.
Objective quality-of-service (QoS) measurements for voice and video communications using different coding and transmission schemes taken in ITS’s unique audio-visual laboratories provide government and industry tools and techniques to assess service quality.
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Wireless Voice/Data Systems and Emerging Technologies.
ITS assesses telecommunications system components and emerging technologies, evaluates network survivability, and assesses system effectiveness in national security/emergency preparedness, military, and commercial environments.
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Radar Interference Effects Tests and Measurements.
ITS acts as a resource to military and civilian agencies to identify sources of radar signal interference through controlled laboratory and field testing. Root cause analysis leads to engineering of proposed solutions shared with industry.
ITS Engineer Honored by NPSTC
The National Public Safety
Telecommunications Council recently announced the
establishment of the Atkinson Technical Award in honor of ITS
senior engineer David (DJ) Atkinson, whose April 2012 death in a
tragic accident was a great loss to NTIA and the public safety
community. DJ's work on Public
Safety Audio Quality is credited by many firefighters with
saving lives on the fireground. Read the
NTIA blog posting or the
PSCR announcement about the award.
ITS Engineer Honored by ATIS
ITS senior engineer Tim Riley received
an Award for Outstanding Contributions to an ATIS Forum or
Committee during the 2012 ATIS 9th Annual Meeting of
Committees in April. This award is presented to individuals who
have provided valuable contributions to the development, acceptance
or completion of ATIS standards during the past year.
New Publications
Journal Article : The Influence of Subjects and Environment on Audiovisual Subjective Tests: An International Study
October 2012, Margaret H. Pinson, Lucjan Janowski, Romuald Pépion, Quan Huynh-Thu, Christian Schmidmer, Phillip Corriveau, Audrey Younkin, Patrick Le Callet, Marcus Barkowsky, and William Ingram .
Traditionally, audio quality and video quality are evaluated separately in subjective tests. Best practices within the quality assessment community were developed before many modern mobile audiovisual ...
NTIA Technical Report TR-13-490: Analysis and Resolution of RF Interference to Radars Operating in the Band 2700-2900 MHz from Broadband Communication Transmitters
October 2012, Frank H. Sanders, Robert L. Sole, John E. Carroll, Glenn S. Secrest, T. Lynn Allmon.
This report describes the methodology and results of an investigation into the source, mechanism, and solutions for radiofrequency (RF) interference to WSR-88D Next-Generation Weather Radars (NEXRADs) ...