Future of US security depends on 'spectrum sharing'

Wireless technologies are crucial to our national security, especially for missile defense and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, which rely on specific spectrum bands.

Mike Pompeo served in the Trump administration as the sixth director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the 70th U.S. secretary of state. He previously represented Kansas’ 4th Congressional District.

Even then, state-of-the-art wireless technologies enabled the reconnaissance, radar and communications capabilities that kept my unit informed of fast-changing threats. Four decades later, wireless technologies remain a crucial enabler of our national security, especially for missile defense and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, which rely on our military’s access to specific spectrum bands.