WASHINGTON—In an attempt to get its preferred message back in the forefront, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association sent a letter to the General Accounting Office on Tuesday implying that the Department of Defense had held back information in the recent congressional investigation.
“These two reports confirm in [the Defense Department’s] own words what the GAO report warned that current international spectrum assignments create ‘an unrecognized risk for DoD overseas operations.’ We hope this additional information from the DoD’s own analysis will be useful in your ongoing review of the challenge to national security represented by DoD’s reliance on spectrum which may not be available for either international training or deployment,” said CTIA President Thomas E. Wheeler.
GAO recently released a report that concluded that not enough information was available when DoD and the National Telecommunications Information Administration to make a fair assessment of whether the government can be relocated from the 1755-1850 MHz band.
