2025-27 FCC Technological Advisory Council Working Group Tasks:
- Emerging Wireless Broadband Working Group (FCC Strategic Goals 1 & 2.3)
a. U.S. role in 6G and IoT standardization: What specific technical and policy roles in standardization would benefit the U.S. to support its international leadership, promote advancement of next generation technology infrastructures, and incentivize accelerated infrastructure builds across the country?
b. What are the ecosystem, interoperability, standardization, and infrastructure needs for 6G and IoT, and how can the FCC proactively address them?
c. How are 6G and other critical emerging technology standards progressing or expected to progress at standards organizations and international fora?
d. Open RAN, AI-RAN, vRAN, etc.: What are the key points of emerging consensus or misalignment? What solutions and benefits do these capabilities offer or lack with respect to wireless network security accountability (non-repudiation), performance, scalability, and total cost of operations (TCO)?
e. Satellite and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN): How can the Commission better support multi-orbital interoperability, supplemental coverage from space (SCS) service quality, backhaul and IoT supportability, cloud integration, and resiliency for new and emerging satellite services?
f. Integrated sensing and communications: What are the applications currently being envisioned for integrated sensing communications (ISAC), and what should the FCC consider to support emerging ISAC services?
g. Terrestrial and satellite quantum communications: How will quantum systems be used for wireless and satellite communications?
- AI/ML and Computing Working Group (FCC Strategic Goals 2, 2.2 & 1.2)
a. AI/ML and Networks: How are neural networks models being applied to traffic pattern prediction and network resiliency, and how might such models potentially bias decision- making as it may affect network traffic management and overall system reliability?
b. AI/ML and Security/Reliability: Describe the landscape of AI Assisted Zero Trust network architecture implementations to address policy enforcement issues and adversarial device, traffic, and attack detection, and the reliability of automated AI interference detection and mitigation on wireless network management.
c. Practicality of AI/ML-based broadband performance and availability analytics to support broadband deployment: How can AI/ML solutions support competitive market analysis, cybersecurity, network resiliency, emergency preparedness, aspects of the FCC’s broadband programs and broadband networks in general?
d. AI/ML and Consumer Protection: What emerging ethical and privacy risks and vulnerabilities should the FCC be aware of related to user data being used for AI model training and optimization on networks increasingly dependent on cloud computing infrastructure?
e. f. g. Quantum Network, Computing, and Post-Quantum Cryptography:
What is the overlay requirement for quantum network integration into the Internet architecture (including the medium and all HW/SW aspects)? What are essential interoperability standards necessary for quantum protocols? Describe the practicality and scalability of quantum cryptography, and how quantum computing is envisioned to be used on AI-assisted network data and traffic routing management, and the tradeoffs versus other technologies.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems: What are the computing, infrastructure, and spectrum needs for robotics and autonomous systems for the FCC to be aware of?
Convergence of AI and IoT: How does AI/ML affect IoT architecture, applications, and how do those effects bear on the Internet protocols and security/accountability concerns, including (data velocity, volume, and veracity) challenges in real time network demand and big data computing?
- Spectrum Management Reform Working Group (FCC Strategic Goals 1 & 4.2)
a. Data collection and database functionalities requirements for spectrum utilization assessment: What challenges might the FCC encounter when creating a spectrum utilization assessment of market specific, localized, nationwide, global by services (mobile, satellite, etc.) regarding specific frequency bands?
b. Spectrum deployment/demand/interference forecasting: How might the FCC instill a better long-term strategic planning and phased approach to spectrum repurposing and auctions, in light of the 800 megahertz spectrum goal in the OBBB Act and beyond?
c. How can the interplay between terrestrial and satellite services be complemented in spectrum sharing models to promote more efficient spectrum use?
d. What methodologies for dynamic interference threshold calibration should the FCC consider for coexistence feasibility studies and standardization policy requirements?
e. Secure and trustworthy data exchange protocols and interfaces for federal and non-federal operations: How can the FCC develop trust in data sharing models to facilitate more efficient spectrum sharing while protecting potentially sensitive information about incumbent spectrum use?
f. How might the licensing coordination and system requirements for federal and non-federal bands (techniques involving prioritization, data sharing, international coordination for satellite) be optimized?
g. RF propagation modeling methodology and interference analysis: How might the FCC establish a baseline for frequency coordination, i.e., what methods, references, and technical parameters to apply and rely upon, etc., and other feedback mechanisms for incumbent protection? What factors and methodologies should the FCC be considering as it seeks to repurpose spectrum generally and pursuant to ongoing spectrum studies focused on spectrum bands identified for meeting the 800 megahertz goal required by the OBBB?