White house declared 5G wireless a national security priority

Ultra-fast 5G wireless service declared national security priority by White House

White house declared 5G wireless  a national security priority

Who might have believed that the president who writes in 140-character messages would all of a sudden be interrested on 70 Gbps wireless internet access?

The White House released its congressionally-mandated National Security Strategy report (warning: PDF) yesterday. Tucked away in a section on improving America’s infrastructure was this action item: “We will improve America’s digital infrastructure by deploying a secure 5G Internet capability nationwide.” Other than natural gas, 5G wireless service was the only area of technology to get a specific calling out for infrastructure.

5G network is not a particular technology per se, but rather a set of standards and technologies that interoperate in the millimeter wave spectrum to meet up the wants of users today. That features better performance around latency and bandwidth, as well as support for low-power, many-device contexts as a result of rise of Internet of Things. 

The standards have now been discussed and researched for a long time,.There is hope though that the technology will soon start to see the light of day since Verizon just announced so it will launch its first U.S. service of the technology next season in Sacramento and up to five other cities.

Now, a line in a report in Silicon Valley would be useless — people want to see actual products, not talk of products. But in Washington D.C., these sorts of coordinated reports are designed to send a signal throughout the government on how a particular administration sees policy issues. As such, they are important for setting the guidelines for future actions of the federal government. 

By attaching wireless connectivity into national security, the Trump administration is putting its heaviest hand behind this type of recommendation. Along with supporting 5G wireless rollouts, the report dived into a number of startup and tech-related recommendations. Subtweeting Obama-era programs like DIUx, the Defense Department's designated agency for interfacing with Silicon Valley, the report demands that federal agencies use startup technology more quickly in the field and pushes for a more agile deployment strategy. In addition it encourages more collaboration between technology companies and the Defense Department.

The administration also lists what it says are the critical next-generation of technologies that will underpin the American economy: “To maintain our competitive advantage, the United States will prioritize emerging technologies critical to economic growth and security, such as data science, encryption, autonomous technologies, gene editing, new materials, nanotechnology, advanced computing technologies, and artificial intelligence.“

While reasonably clear, the report also has some two-faced challenges around immigration. The strategy argues that “The United States must continue to attract the innovative and the inventive, the brilliant and the bold,” but then includes pages of recommendations on strengthening 

outskirts and migration controls that could appear to perform straightforwardly counter to this high-need objective. Essentially, the methodology is about what you would expect out of this organization. Beside 5G remote. Since the president extremely needs less inactivity for his tweets.