Spectrum Week 2024: DySPAN, SWIFT, NRDZ, SpectrumX, NSMA, WSRD

Spectrum Week was organized by SpectrumX [1] and was held in Washington DC May 13–17, 2024 [2]. As the column title indicates, an alphabet soup of meetings were held with their respective stakeholder communities in attendance, from global attendees participating in the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) [3], to the workshop on the National Spectrum Strategy (NSS) R&D plan conducted by the Wireless Spectrum Research and Development (WSRD) Interagency Working Group of the Networking and Information Research and Development (NITRD) Program that coordinates networking research among all U.S. Federal agencies [4]. Spectrum technologies and policies in their various forms, with an emphasis on measurements, dynamic spectrum sharing and testbeds, were the principal focus of the gathering of representatives from academia, industry and government, with many joint panels and keynotes among the different meetings to encourage cross-collaborations. This column will present brief summaries of the principal discussions in these events, with a focus on future research directions.