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Article: Can you hear me now? Host nation coordination: assuring spectrum supportability outside the United States.
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- April 1, 2007
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Obtaining foreign spectrum support for Marine Corps and Navy operations is referred to as "Host Nation Allocation" (HNA) or "Host Nation Coordination." Regardless of the term used, acquiring host nation spectrum supportability from foreign nations is critical to the training and operations of the Department of the Navy (DON), and it is a complex and lengthy process.
Earlier this year, the Joint Staff Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (J-6) stated that 51 percent of new Department of Defense (DoD) systems procured in fiscal year 2006 use electromagnetic spectrum. Most DON weapons systems, communications systems, sensor systems, and ...