Why Join
If you’re interested in any of the following, the National Spectrum Consortium would be a good fit for you:
- Collaborating with senior government officials to help shape 5G and electromagnetic spectrum requirements
- Obtaining greater visibility into government needs and priorities
- Securing funding to conduct R&D and deliver prototypes
- You’re a small or non-traditional company and want to partner with larger companies
- You’re a large company and want to partner with smaller or non-traditional companies who have innovative ideas
- Networking with leaders from industry, academia, and government
- You develop 5G or 5G-based technologies such as:
5G
Internet of Things
Autonomous Material Transport
Smart Warehouses
Wearables
Autonomous Vehicles
Cloud Computing
Edge Computing
Smart Depots & Bases
Supply Chain Management
Autonomous Ships
Health Status Monitoring
Virtual/Augmented Reality
Remote Surgery
Instant Translation
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
MIMO
Beamforming
Membership Benefits
- Networking opportunities with other industry and academia members, as well as government stakeholders, during annual membership meetings and various other conferences and forums
- Affords greater visibility into the government needs and priorities; provides increased ability to leverage IR&D investments to meet those needs
- Creates a channel for small companies and non-traditional suppliers to identify opportunities and establish customer relationships
- Operates through a flexible contracting vehicle capable of multiple taskings with a single set of terms
- Minimizes cash flow challenges through rapid, single-point contracting capability of the Consortium Management Firm (CMF) and advanced payments for approved projects from the Government to CMF
Membership
Our diverse membership base has been key to our early success as a consortium.