Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program’s Advanced Wireless Test Platform (AWTP) Team and the Federal Mobility Group (FMG) will host a virtual 5G workshop focused on the framework to conduct 5G testing. The workshop consists of two half-day sessions that begin with a focus on the FMG work product – Framework To Conduct 5G Testing. The workshop will include moderated exercises where participants will walk through the process identified in the framework document, with two selected federal 5G use-cases.

The Wireless Spectrum R&D Interagency Working Group (WSRD IWG) under the Networking and Information Technology R&D Program (NITRD) held a mini-workshop on March 4th to understand open source implementations of 5G protocol stacks and their use in government 5G Testbeds and field applications. Vendors and Projects with open source 5G protocol stack implementations – either in development or deployed – were invited to provide a short briefing in the morning session to the WSRD IWG on their products, concepts and applications. The IWG members met later in the afternoon to review what they heard and talk about their use of open source 5G stacks.