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The FCC issued a tentative agenda for its November 17 open meeting, where it will consider:

• Improving 911 Reliability – A Report and Order to promote public safety by ensuring that 911 call centers receive timely and useful notifications of disruptions to 911 service.
• Updating Resources Used to Determine Local TV Markets – A Report and Order that would update its rules to use the most up-to-date market information for determining a television station’s local market for carriage purposes.

NTIA’s research laboratory, the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) recently released a much-anticipated report that will aid regulators' understanding of 5G signals that are near adjacent to the radio altimeter band. ITS measured the potential impact of Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) systems in the 3700 and 3980 MHz band on airborne radar altimeter (RADALT) receivers operating between 4200 and 4400 MHz.

The study, NTIA Technical Report TR-22-562, "Measurements of 5G New Radio Spectral and Spatial Power Emissions for Radar Altimeter Interference Analysis," found that most 5G transmitters emissions are focused toward the ground and produce a low level of unwanted 5G emissions within the RADALT spectrum band. This reduces the potential for 5G-to-RADALT harmful interference scenarios and increases the likelihood that unwanted emissions problems can be solved by installing or retrofitting RADALT receivers with more effective radio frequency power-rejection filters.

This report, the first in a series of three, is part of the larger Joint Interagency 5G Radar Altimeter Interference (JI-FRAI) Quick Reaction Test program to understand potential 5G interference issues. Researchers took measurements earlier this year at the Table Mountain Radio Quiet Zone and Field Test Site near Boulder Colorado. The report relied upon test procedures and measurement techniques developed by ITS and utilized the ITS Radio Spectrum Measurement System (RSMS)—a vehicle with specialized test equipment that lets ITS measure how radio waves interact and propagate over space and time.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) 2023-2025 Strategic Plan is the agency’s first, comprehensive strategic plan since CISA was established in 2018. This is a major milestone for the agency: The CISA Strategic Plan will focus and guide the agency’s efforts over the next three years.

The Strategic Plan builds on the foundation created through the CISA Strategic Intent published in August 2019 to guide the agency’s work and create unity of effort. In its role as the nation’s cyber defense agency and the national coordinator for critical infrastructure security, CISA works with critical infrastructure partners every day to address the evolving threat landscape. That approach is reflected in the CISA Strategic Plan, which focuses on how the agency will collectively reduce risk and build resilience to cyber and physical threats to the nation’s infrastructure.

To achieve the outcome of reduced risk and increased resilience, the CISA Strategic Plan describes four ambitious goals. Three of these goals focus on “how” the agency will work to reduce risk and build resilience, while the fourth goal focuses internally to ensure the agency is in a strong position to execute the CISA Strategic Plan, working as One CISA.