Federal budget proposal calls for spectrum relocation fund
Feb 6, 2003 12:00 PM
The Bush administration's 2004 budget calls for the reintroduction
of legislation to create a spectrum relocation fund from which the
Pentagon can draw on to move military radio systems off frequencies
identified for third-generation wireless systems and onto other airwave
bands.
The White House estimated the fund would cost $2.5 billion from 2005 to
2010. One potential hurdle is the $2.2 trillion budget's projection of
a $307 billion deficit in fiscal 2004. The budget deficit for fiscal
2003, which began Oct. 1, is expected to be $304 billion, and over the
next five years it could balloon to more than $1 trillion.
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