Industry-Academe Consortium Granted NTIA Funding for Establishment of Network Technology R&D Center
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has awarded $42.3 million in funding for the Acceleration of Compatibility and Commercialization for Open RAN Deployments project. Overseen by a consortium of industry and academic organizations under the leadership of AT&T and Verizon, the ACCoRD project seeks to establish a testing, evaluation and research and development center that will work to test network performance, interoperability and security, the NTIA said Monday.