… protect spectrum that is critical for the defense of our country, including those different bands for communication and radar. So I will begin by just simply saying that I think Forcing the Department of Defense to vacate or share in a suboptimal manner the 3.1 to 3.45 GHz and the 7.4 to 8.4 GHz bands of the spectrum would have a severely negative consequence for our war fighting capabilities and including homeland defense missions and force protection of our deployed forces. General, how important is spectrum to the American military? It's almost everything, Senator, because we use certain spectrums based on the physics that are characteristic of that spectrum, and we invent capability using that physics for our advantage. (00:37–01:00)
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Asserts that vacating or sharing specific spectrum bands would negatively impact U.S. military capabilities.
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