NIST facilitates first-ever spectrum sharing between military and public wireless users

For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate to multiple tenants to ensure maximum use. However, the “For Lease” sign isn’t on some quiet suburban street, along a beachfront vista, or any physical location at all. It’s posted in front of a small portion of the radiofrequency (RF) spectrum that the broker wants two “renters”—the military and the private sector—to jointly occupy for both of their wireless broadband needs.