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DoD Will Request More 5G Funding, Work Through Unsecure Networks

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

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DoD Will Request More 5G Funding, Work Through Unsecure Networks

Michael Griffin, former undersecretary of defense for research and engineering (Photo: Department of Defense)

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- A top Pentagon official last week said the Defense Department plans to request more money for deploying 5G technologies in FY 2020 and in the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) while it also is working through how to operate in unsecure networks. The DoD is trying “to make available our, broadly speaking, requirement set, whether it be depots or ports or airfields or autonomous vehicles or fill in the blank,” Michael Griffin, Undersecretary of Defense for Research…

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