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2020-10-09 智邦网
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据c4isr网10月8日报道，10月8日，美国防部宣布向几个供应商授予6亿美元合同，在五个军事基地开展一系列5G实验，包括智能仓库、先进雷达、增强和虚拟现实能力，为国防部和工业界开发5G能力，提高部队作战能力和工业竞争力。
负责研究和工程的代理国防部副部长米切尔·克拉休斯表示：“通过这些实验场所，国防部将发挥独特优势大力推动世界上独一无二的创新开发，探索建立新一代网络系统的巨大应用潜力和两用机会。”
国防部通过在几个基地建立试验设施，促进军方、工业界和学术界协同开展一系列实验验证。计划在一年内全面建成这些试验基地。
包括犹他州希尔空军基地；华盛顿刘易斯-麦科德联合基地；佐治亚州奥尔巴尼海军陆战队后勤基地；加州圣地亚哥海军基地；内华达州拉斯维加斯内利斯空军基地。
在刘易斯-麦科德联合基地，国防部将与 GBL 系统、美国电话电报公司、Oceus网络和博思艾伦四家企业联合组织使用波段光谱任务规划、训练和操作的5G赋能和增强与虚拟现实护目镜实验，在旅级部队部署该技术。
在希尔空军基地，国防部将与工业界共同应对5G频谱共享挑战，计划开发共享/共存系统样机，评估在大规模网络环境中现实有效性，供应商包括 诺基亚、通用动力任务系统、博思艾伦、键桥无线、共享频谱，以及爱立信公司。
在内利斯空军基地，国防部与美国电话电报公司建立分布式指挥控制试验平台，提供高容量、低延迟通信移动5g环境，以增强C2作战生存能力。
在圣地亚哥海军基地和佐治亚州奥尔巴尼海军陆战队后勤基地，国防部将组织5G赋能智能仓库实验，聚焦岸上设施和海军部队之间转运、车辆储存和维护，供应商包括美国电话电报公司、GE 研究, Vectrus 任务系统方案公司 、德勤、联合无线, KPMG 和 科学研究公司。
美空军最近选择美国电话电报公司为三个基地提供5G能力。
国防部正在为7个其他基地选择5G实验供应商，为海军和陆战队基地的首次信息需求和工业日将于10月中旬由海军信息战研究项目联盟发布。
空军和陆军信息需求将于12月由国家频谱联盟发布。
Pentagon announces $600 million in 5G experimentation contracts
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense announced $600 million in 5G experimentation contracts Thursday evening to several vendors for projects at five military bases across the country.
The long-anticipated awards are for a broad range of 5G experiments, including smart warehouses, advanced radars, and augment and virtual reality capabilities. The awards are part of a DoD effort to work with commercial vendors to advance the 5G capabilities of both the department and industry.
“The Department of Defense is at the forefront of cutting edge 5G testing and experimentation, which will strengthen our Nation’s warfighting capabilities as well as U.S. economic competitiveness in this critical field,” said Michael Kratsios, acting under secretary of defense for research and engineering, in a statement. “Through these test sites, the Department is leveraging its unique authorities to pursue bold innovation at a scale and scope unmatched anywhere else in the world. Importantly, today’s announcement demonstrates the Department’s commitment to exploring the vast potential applications and dual-use opportunities that can be built upon next-generation networks.”
The DoD is setting up test beds at several bases where military leaders, industry and academia will work together on a broad range of experiments. The test beds are Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia; Naval Base San Diego, California; and Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada. According to Joseph Evans, the DoD’s director of 5G, the department plans for the testbeds to be fully stood up in a year.
“Each of the experiments has some aspect that’s really new and exciting to us,” Evans told reporters. “In addition, it also provides an opportunity for industry to experiment and mature their technologies along those parallel tracks.”
According to a DoD press release, the bases were chosen because of their access to spectrum, and mature fiber and wireless infrastructure.
At Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the Pentagon will work with four vendors to experiment with 5G-enable augmented and virtual reality goggles for mission planning, training and operations using mid-band spectrum. The vendors are GBL System Corp., AT&T, Oceus Networks and Booz Allen Hamilton. Evans told reporters that in year three of the work at the base the department wants a “brigade-sized deployment of the technology.”
The department will also address 5G spectrum sharing challenges with cellular networks through an experiment at Hill Air Force Base. The project, according to a DoD press release, will “develop sharing/coexistence system prototypes and evaluate their effectiveness with real-world, at-scale networks in controlled environments.” The department is seeking to allow sharing or coexistence between airborne radar systems and 5G cellular technology in the 3.1-3.45 GHz band.
Vendors for the spectrum sharing test bed include Nokia, General Dynamics Mission Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Key Bridge Wireless, Shared Spectrum Company and Ericsson.
The Defense Department is also partnering with AT&T at Nellis Air Force Base for a distributed command and control testbed to enhance C2 survivability in combat. The telecom giant will eventually provide a mobile 5G environment with high capacity, low latency communications to meet the needs of a mobile combined air operations center.
“We’re basically trying to make our forces more survivable by taking command and control functions that have long been housed in single buildings and spread them out and make them make them mobile,” Evans told reporters. “So [we’re] really trying to change the way our forces are deployed in the field.”
The department will experiment with 5G-enabled smart warehouses at both Naval Base San Diego (NBSD) and Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Ga.
The project in San Diego will focus on transshipment between shore facilities and naval units, while the Marines Corps project will center on vehicle storage and maintenance.
Both projects will work “to increase the efficiency and fidelity of … operations, including identification, recording, organization, storage, retrieval, and transportation of materiel and supplies,” a DoD press release said.
Industry partners for the San Diego-based project are AT&T, GE Research, Vectrus Mission Solutions Corporation and Deloitte. AT&T will use cullar spectrum in the sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave bands, the DoD press release said.
Partners at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Ga. are Federated Wireless, GE Research, KPMG and Scientific Research Corporation.
The Air Force also recently chose AT&T to provide 5G capabilities at three bases.
The DoD is also in the process of choosing vendors for 5G experiments at seven more bases. According to Evans, the first solicitation release and industry day for the Navy and Marines Corps bases in that tranche will come in mid-October using the Navy’s Information Warfare Research Project consortium. The Air Force and Army solicitations are expected to be rolled out through December through the National Spectrum Consortium, Evans said.