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Pentagon Wants To Ramp Up Investment in 5G

Frank Wolfe

Friday, February 14th, 2020

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Pentagon Wants To Ramp Up Investment in 5G

F-35As on the runway before a combat exercise at Hill Air Force Base, Utah in November, 2018. The program helped bolster sales and earnings in Lockheed Martin's second quarter. (Photo: U.S. Air Force)

The Pentagon fiscal year 2021 budget requests $449 million in research and development for the 5G next generation information communications technology program, $249 million more than provided by Congress last year. 5G "is a critical technology to the Department of Defense" and "enables high bandwidth, real-time, densely-connected networks, which represent many of the use cases central to defense command, control, and communications," Charles Clancy, vice president of intelligence programs at MITRE, wrote in an email to Defense Daily. Clancy is…

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