The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the US Commerce Department agency that helps to manage the spectrum holdings of federal users ranging from NASA to the US Department of Defense (DoD). And the agency just announced it will begin implementing Incumbent Informing Capability (IIC) technology for 5G spectrum. "NTIA's Office of Spectrum Management has established an IIC Project Team to work with DoD in the exploration of this capability," wrote Charles Cooper, associate administrator of the NTIA's Office of Spectrum Management, in a post to the agency's website. "This new approach could standardize the spectrum sharing model and be incorporated in other bands that support such scheduling. This should decrease the amount of time needed to repurpose additional bands, because engineering and policy requirements are already defined and could be simply replicated."