I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4504 
To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
Information to take certain actions to improve the management of elec-
tromagnetic spectrum, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2023 
Mr. GUTHRIE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Commu-
nications and Information to take certain actions to im-
prove the management of electromagnetic spectrum, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Novel, Advanced Spec-
trum and Communications Technology Networks Pro-
motion Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The National Telecommunications and In-
formation Administration (NTIA) is the principal 
advisor to the President on all telecommunications 
and information issues. 
(2) The NTIA represents executive branch 
agencies on electromagnetic spectrum issues before 
the Federal Communications Commission. 
(3) Understanding radio frequency propagation 
characteristics is a critical component of making 
spectrum management and spectrum policy deci-
sions. 
(4) The NTIA relies on expert engineering 
studies and analyses to make determinations about 
system relocations to make spectrum available, as 
well as to identify spectrum sharing opportunities. 
(5) Spectrum clearing, when feasible, is the pri-
ority action to make federally assigned spectrum 
available for commercial uses. 
(6) Spectrum sharing provides commercial ac-
cess to federally assigned spectrum in circumstances 
in which clearing is not feasible. 
(7) 
The 
Institute 
for 
Telecommunication 
Sciences of the NTIA is the Federal Government’s 
premier expert laboratory for spectrum study activi-
ties, including spectrum interference studies, and all 
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activities related to advancing next generation tech-
nologies. 
(8) 
The 
Institute 
for 
Telecommunication 
Sciences is critical for undertaking engineering stud-
ies and analyses, identifying clearing or sharing op-
portunities, and performing tests that inform spec-
trum policy decisions to maximize the efficient use 
of spectrum resources. 
SEC. 3. SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS. 
(a) PROTOTYPING.—Consistent with subparagraphs 
(F), (L), (P), and (U) of section 103(b)(2) of the National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration Or-
ganization Act (47 U.S.C. 902(b)(2)), the Assistant Sec-
retary shall support the establishment, prototyping, and 
implementation of common models, common methodolo-
gies, and common inputs to inform electromagnetic spec-
trum management decisions, such as— 
(1) technologies and techniques to control radio 
frequency emissions and interference; 
(2) advanced antenna arrays, and artificial in-
telligence systems and technologies capable of oper-
ating advanced antenna arrays, including multiple- 
input, multiple-output antennas, beam forming and 
steering technology, antenna nulling technology, and 
conformal arrays; 
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(3) network sensing and monitoring tech-
nologies; 
(4) advanced receivers that incorporate new 
technologies supporting new waveforms and multiple 
bands; 
(5) dynamic spectrum access technologies 
across wireless systems and frequencies, including 
local-to-the-radio and cognitive multidomain access; 
(6) novel spectrum access technologies; 
(7) artificial intelligence systems to enable dy-
namic spectrum access, Internet of Things networks, 
and other advanced communications technologies; 
and 
(8) optical and quantum communications tech-
nologies. 
(b) SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT AND ADVANCED COM-
MUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES.—Section 104 of the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Administra-
tion Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 903) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) IDENTIFICATION
AND
IMPLEMENTATION
OF 
SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES.—The Assist-
ant Secretary shall identify and implement technologies 
that promote— 
‘‘(1) dynamic spectrum access; 
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‘‘(2) network sensing and monitoring; and 
‘‘(3) optical and quantum communications. 
‘‘(g) PROTOTYPING OF ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS 
TECHNOLOGIES.—The Assistant Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) encourage the development of, and broad 
participation in, a skilled workforce to conduct 
prototyping of advanced communications tech-
nologies; and 
‘‘(2) support partnerships among institutions to 
develop a skilled workforce to conduct prototyping of 
advanced communications technologies.’’. 
(c) ASSISTANT SECRETARY DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘Assistant Secretary’’ means the Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Informa-
tion. 
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