{"id":51022,"date":"2024-06-27T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/06\/27\/pentagon-to-issue-guidance-on-open-radio-access-networks-to-support-5g\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:52:49","slug":"pentagon-to-issue-guidance-on-open-radio-access-networks-to-support-5g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2024\/06\/27\/pentagon-to-issue-guidance-on-open-radio-access-networks-to-support-5g\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to issue guidance on open radio access networks to support 5G"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Department Defense looks to find the right mix of bespoke and openly available technologies to support 5G adoption and FutureG initiatives, <\/a>officials put an emphasis on open architecture Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the TechNet Cyber conference<\/a> presented by the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International in Baltimore, leaders from the Pentagon discussed capabilities for public, private and hybrid networks. Officials acknowledged there\u2019s a natural appetite for the most exclusive, secure networks in the national security space. And sometimes there is no wireless network infrastructure available in remote warfighting locations far from population centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So as the services determine appetite for private networks that offer more control over information sharing, the DoD is guiding them to use open radio access networks, or ORAN, said Juan Ram\u00edrez, the director of the 5G Cross-Functional Team at DoD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think what industry wants to hear is there\u2019s actually going to be requirements that come out that … necessitate an open RAN architecture,\u201d he said at the conference. \u201cSo you\u2019ll start to see those come out in the next couple of years, pending budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t