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DoD offering up to $3 million to help make 5G more compatible

As the Defense Department prepares to further its 5G investments into 2023, the military is amping up its work with industry and academia to build a more coherent next-generation infrastructure.

The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it is launching a competition to accelerate the “development and adoption of open interfaces, interoperable components, and multi-vendor solutions toward the development of an open 5G ecosystem,” according to a DoD release.

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NTIA Announces the Full Roster of 5G Challenge Contestants

CableLabs congratulates Capgemini Engineering, Fujitsu Network Communications, Mavenir Systems Inc., Radisys Corporation and Signal System Management for being selected as contestants in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA-ITS) 5G Challenge. The competition is hosted by CableLabs. Including Rakuten, the early bird contestant, this group of six participants highlights the diversity of vendors working to develop open and interoperable networks for 5G and beyond.

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In a 5G World, the More Vendors,the Better

The Department of Defense and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration have partnered to accelerate the adoption of open interfaces, interoperable components and multivendor solutions related to 5G.

In the 2022, first-year 5G Challenge Preliminary Event, NTIA will award part of a $3 million prize to contestants who submit winning hardware or software solutions for 5G network subsystems.

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Boosting Domestic Production Of 5G Technology Is Important To Ensure Long Run U.S. Economic Primacy

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric across the Asian Hemisphere have caused policymakers to realize that we cannot depend on these countries for materials critical to the U.S. economy, not to mention our national defense.

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Radisys Takes 2 Prizes in Federal 5G Challengeʼs Final Phase

An interoperable open radio access network system developed by Radisys has won top prizes in the third and final stage of the Federal 5G Challenge.

Radisys’ technology received the Best Software Bill of Materials award and Network Integration Prize for its distributed unit, the company said Thursday.

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Radisys Wins Top Award in Final Stage of NTIA/DoD 5G Challenge to Build an Interoperable Open RAN System

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Radisys® Corporation, a global leader of open telecom solutions, today announced that it has won the Best Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) prize and has also been named the winner of the Network Integration Prize in the Distributed Unit (DU) category in Stage Three of the Federal 5G Challenge hosted by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Institute for Telecommunications Services in collaboration with the Department of Defense.

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