Greetings. Our good friend Fred Moorefield, now in the spectrum management office at the Pentagon, gave me a head's up a couple of weeks ago about the release of the attached paper, but alert Director Brian Mileshosky spotted this on the DOD web site. I was going to forward this only to the Executive Committee, which has been charged with oversight over the implementation of the National Broadband Plan. However, I think this will be of interest to the entire Board. Our shared allocations with DOD are extensive, as you well know. We have largely, so far, dodged bullets in the implementation of the NBP. But DOD and several non-government radio services have not been so lucky. DOD is under the gun with respect to moving a lot of its operations out of the 1755-1780 MHz band, among other bands, and this paper is somewhat defensive about retaining government allocations between 300 MHz and 4 GHz. It indicates for example that DOD will be more actively involved in regulatory proceedings, including those at FCC. While this paper is non-specific, it is, I think, a bellwether for us, indicating that we need to stay close to DOD (as we have been doing), and to remain vigilant about (1) further proposals to reallocate government spectrum which we share with the Federal government, and (2) target bands for relocation of displaced DOD facilities which may intensify the Federal uses in shared bands. Interesting that this paper, bearing a 2013 date, is just now being released. Thanks to Brian for spotting it. 73, Chris W3KD Christopher D. Imlay Booth, Freret, Imlay & Tepper. P.C. 14356 Cape May Road Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6011 (301) 384-5525 telephone (301) 384-6384 facsimile W3KD@ARRL.ORG