So moving out, one, you may not be able to invent the new technology if you're in a different spectrum, and two, if you do, it's going to take you a while and it's going to be very expensive. The US Navy, in terms of their discussion in front of this committee, indicated that the cost for them just for their destroyers, the radar that was on their destroyers, would have been about a quarter of a trillion dollars, $250 billion, and approximately 20 years to move to other parts of the spectrum. And we were specifically talking about the 3.1 to 3.45 GHz band. Does that impact the Air Force's capabilities? It does. (01:51–02:14)
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Asserts that moving Navy destroyers' radar to other spectrum parts would cost $250 billion and take 20 years.
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