{"id":51356,"date":"2023-11-07T19:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T19:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/11\/07\/5g-seen-as-critical-enabler-for-pentagons-simulation-vr-needs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:40:35","slug":"5g-seen-as-critical-enabler-for-pentagons-simulation-vr-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/training-sim\/2023\/11\/07\/5g-seen-as-critical-enabler-for-pentagons-simulation-vr-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"5G seen as \u2018critical\u2019 enabler for Pentagon\u2019s simulation, VR needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The fifth generation of wireless technologies, more commonly known as 5G, is critical to unleashing digital simulation and virtual reality capabilities the U.S. military is increasingly interested in, according to experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 5G ecosystem promises exponentially faster speeds as well as greater accommodations for more and more-advanced devices. The U.S. Department of Defense considers development and adoption of the generation foundational to its longer-term connectivity and modernization goals<\/a>. Rollout and uptake, though, has so far been piecemeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some really exciting applications, of course for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and command and control, but even for really intricate things like untethered virtual and augmented reality, things for live simulation and training,\u201d Whitney McNamara, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, said at an event hosted by the Washington-based think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think 5G is one of those really critical enablers<\/a>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C4ISRNET moderated the Nov. 6 discussion, which also featured Dan Rice, Lockheed Martin\u2019s vice president of 5G.MIL programs, and Thomas Rondeau, the principal director for FutureG at the Defense Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\t