World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC23) in Dubai. Credit: ITU
WASHINGTON — White House officials say they will go into a major international conference next year better prepared than ever to defend key radio-frequency spectrum priorities.
During a panel at the ASCEND conference here May 19, officials said they expect to finalize their positions well ahead of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2027, or WRC-27, which takes place in October and November 2027 in Shanghai.
“This administration is the most serious about winning at WRC than the U.S. has probably ever been,” said Ryan Baasch, deputy director of the National Economic Council. “We will be more prepared for this conference than the U.S. government has ever been, and our north star on this is making sure that U.S. industry is able to thrive in the aftermath of the conference.”
The space industry considers WRC-27 critical because most of the agenda items for the conference deal with space applications of spectrum. Baasch and others on the panel did not discuss specific issues they are considering but emphasized they planned to make clear their stances on them long before the conference starts.
