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To Department of Defense personnel from foreign adversaries and non-state actors. | |
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| The chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, talked about the FCC agenda to expand its role in space during remarks at the Global Aerospace Summit in Los Angeles. | ||
| This is just under 20 minutes. | ||
| Wow, thanks so much. | ||
| So great to be back here in LA. | ||
| So great to see so many friends and colleagues from across the space industry. | ||
| You know, I was here a year and a half ago, not just here, but in the Gundo, in Hawthorne. | ||
| And I got to say, it is quite impressive, you know, visiting with all of you and seeing the businesses that you're starting in the space economy. | ||
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It's no wonder that this whole area has become known as the aerospace capital of the world. | |
| Take our hosts right here at Apex. | ||
| When I was here about a year and a half ago, there was almost nothing here but a dusty, old, empty warehouse. | ||
| They had a used vibe table or shake table in the corner, and that was about it. | ||
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And now going through there today, we got to see the unbelievable work that they have gotten done. | |
| The team here are building standardized, scalable satellite buses that are attracting customers from everyone from the U.S. Space Force to industry-leading private companies. | ||
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So congratulations to Apex on their opening. | |
| We got to go through their clean room here. | ||
| It was very nice of them. | ||
| They gave me a hair net, even though we have no hair. | ||
| They still gave me a hair net, which I really appreciate. | ||
| It made me feel good on the inside. | ||
| But congratulations to the crew for everything that they're getting done here. | ||
| On that last visit, I also had the chance to visit with other businesses all across this area, including Varda Space Industries Vardas. | ||
| President Deelian showed me both his signature mismatched shoes, but also more relevant to this speech, how his team is now using the microgravity of space to manufacture new drugs and treatments, including for cancer, that would be impossible to develop down here in the gravity of Earth. | ||
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Stuff that seems like total science fiction. | |
| We're going to have a chance later today to hear from so many other innovative companies, including Northwood Space, that will be participating in a panel discussion. | ||
| They're a business that's at the cutting edge of the emerging ground station as a service sector, which allows multiple satellite operators to share the same ground infrastructure. | ||
| But the truth is that manufacturing and productivity is nothing new to this area. | ||
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In fact, aerospace innovation is nothing new to this area. | |
| The industry's roots run deep here, from Douglas Aircraft, Northrop, Hughes Aircraft, to the founding of the Aerospace Corporation. | ||
| In fact, the space race of the 1960s traces its own course right through these neighborhoods. | ||
| Back then, this area played a key role in aerospace manufacturing and innovation that powered America's Cold War leadership. | ||
| Right here is where some of the country's most important titans of the space industry first set up SHOP, and they helped ensure that the United States won the space race. | ||
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Now, in many ways, past is prologue. | |
| Today, the United States sits at the dawn of a new golden age of space innovation. | ||
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And President Trump has been clear the U.S. will dominate in space once again. | |
| And America's leadership in space could not come at a better time. | ||
| That's because we're now in the midst of what I refer to as the Space Race 2.0. | ||
| And like the space race of 60 years ago, the U.S. is going to rely on the innovators right here to help power America to the wind. | ||
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Of course, there's differences this time around too. | |
| Our main competitor in this Space Race 2.0 is the government of China. | ||
| They have their sets, their eyes set on dominating in low Earth orbit and frankly, up and down every orbit. | ||
| So I want to be clear about the challenge and the stakes ahead. | ||
| A world where the government of China is using its space capabilities to control the access that billions of people across the globe have to data and to information would be a less prosperous and far more dangerous world. | ||
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But this is not the only way in which the Space Race 2.0 is different. | |
| America's aerospace industry itself looks a lot different this time around than it did during the first space race. | ||
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Today, we're not relying on the country's largest government contractors alone. | |
| Today, we're not putting up just a handful of innovative and key satellites. | ||
| We are and must do even more to win this Space Race 2.0. | ||
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And that's where communities like this come back in. | |
| We're relying on businesses of all sizes and hundreds of new and scrappy startups, the innovative space age businesses that are being found right here in these old warehouses. | ||
| To me, these and countless other businesses are a great indicator of how this industry, this area, has become a world-leading incubator for talent and entrepreneurship, which is creating a virtuous cycle of innovation. | ||
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More startups means more competition, which means more innovations. | |
| You all are doing the work. | ||
| You are reindustrializing the country. | ||
| You are rejuvenating it. | ||
| And you're investing in world-beating innovations every single day. | ||
| So the question for those of us in government with offices over 2,500 miles from here, which if my math is right, is about seven times further away than some of the LEO satellites orbiting above us today. | ||
| The question for us is what can we do back in Washington to help boost your operations, to cut through the layers of red tape that might otherwise hold you back. | ||
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And here's how I think about it. | |
| Much like this second space race is different from the first one, requiring innovators to be more nimble, to move more quickly, to simplify processes and timelines, the FCC must approach our job very differently as well. | ||
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And on this front, President Trump is leading the way. | |
| Earlier this year, President Trump signed an executive order to streamline the regulations and foster a competitive commercial space industry, thus ensuring the U.S. maintains its leading role in the commercial use of space. | ||
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We are acting on President Trump's leadership at the FCC. | |
| In fact, we're already getting downrange. | ||
| So let me explain what we've done and then end with what we're going to do. | ||
| Earlier this year, I laid out a vision for the FCC's main policy priorities. | ||
| I call it our Build America agenda. | ||
| And one of its core objectives is boosting the U.S. space economy. | ||
| Across the Trump administration, departments and agencies are ensuring that America dominates in space. | ||
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In fact, the White House recently prioritized America's space dominance as one of the five highest RD priorities for our nation. | |
| Now, before getting into the details of what the FCC is doing to promote space innovation, I'd like to step back and offer you some perspective on how I think about the FCC's regulatory framework for space and how it must change. | ||
| On this score, I think Europe offers a very real and very cautionary tale. | ||
| When I first started at the FCC all the way back in 2012, I worked mostly on mobile wireless issues. | ||
| And that's a regulatory area where you can see how the U.S. and Europe parted ways very dramatically. | ||
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Here, we developed a framework for permissionless innovation. | |
| There, they've heavily regulated industry players. | ||
| Here, we focused on removing barriers to investment and deployment, while there, they've made it more difficult, with providers investing less than half their U.S. counterparts. | ||
| Here, we've released thousands of megahertz of spectrum for next-gen services while European providers have fallen behind. | ||
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Now, the results speak for themselves. | |
| The U.S. won the race to 4G and has been leading the world in 5G too. | ||
| This has brought countless economic and geopolitical benefits to America. | ||
| Just look a couple hours up the road. | ||
| The Apocony developed in America because we had that world-leading 4G and 5G networks. | ||
| And it's provided America's consumers with better services at lower prices. | ||
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The truth is, we face a similar fork in the road when it comes to the space economy. | |
| Europe wants to double down on heavy-handed regulations. | ||
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In America, we're going to go a different direction. | |
| We're going to take the best of the FCC's regulatory approaches from the wireless sector, and we're going to apply them for the first time to the space and satellite sectors. | ||
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A regulatory refresh like this only makes sense. | |
| After all, the space economy of today bears little resemblance to the one that existed just a few short years ago when many of the FCC's satellite rules were last updated, let alone the 1990s when those rules were first developed. | ||
| Over the past decade, we have seen a 14-fold increase in the number of objects launched into orbit. | ||
| It's clear that fundamental regulatory reforms are needed. | ||
| The success of American companies in space is too important and too pressing to just tinker around the edges. | ||
| What America's launch capacity is doing right now, again, in my view, is very similar to like the transition from 3G to 4G to 5G. | ||
| By opening up so much more ability to get mass into the orbit, we're opening up tremendous opportunities across the economy. | ||
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So, let me talk about what the FCC is doing. | |
| Big picture, our goal is to make sure that the United States is the friendliest environment in the world for people to start, to grow, or to accelerate their space operations. | ||
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Our efforts on this front are driven by a few guiding principles. | |
| Speed, simplicity, security, and satellite spectrum abundance. | ||
| On speed, we're clearing out satellite backlogs and reducing processing times at a record pace. | ||
| Since I've come into this job, we've already reduced in half the number of Earth Station applications that have been pending before the Commission, and we're going to keep shipping away. | ||
| On simplicity, we eliminated FCC approval requirements for a range of routine changes that pose no risk to the public. | ||
| One of our reforms alone will eliminate roughly half of Earth Station modification applications that need any FCC approval at all. | ||
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On security, we launched a proceeding that looks at bolstering and safeguarding the services provided by our GPS system today. | |
| And on satellite spectrum abundance, we've opened a rulemaking that could free up more than 20,000 megahertz of spectrum for satellite broadband. | ||
| We're also taking a fresh look at this decades-old spectrum-sharing regime between geostationary and non-geostationary satellites to supercharge next-generation systems. | ||
| But even with all these actions we've already taken, the Commission's space regulations are still riddled with backward-looking regulations. | ||
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We see outdated regulatory assumptions. | |
| For instance, the FCC's licensing databases were not built to support applications filed at scale. | ||
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This artificially restricts who can be authorized and how quickly. | |
| We see outdated technical assumptions at the agency. | ||
| For instance, the FCC's rules are overly conservative about coexistence, which artificially limits how space companies can serve American consumers and businesses. | ||
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And we see outdated economic assumptions too. | |
| For instance, the FCC's frameworks were designed for a nascent space sector that lacked robust investment and competition. | ||
| Collectively, these outdated assumptions throttle the space economy, and they prevent space resources from going to their highest and best use. | ||
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It's clear to me that more reform is needed. | |
| So now is the time for the FCC to take our efforts up a notch to add rocket fuel to our approach, if you will. | ||
| And this October, we're going to go big at the agency. | ||
| We're declaring October 2025 Space Month at the FCC. | ||
| And today, I'll be sharing with my FCC colleagues two proposals to fundamentally alter the FCC's regulatory framework for space innovation. | ||
| We're looking at everything from a first principles mindset in order to enable monumental changes in this sector. | ||
| For starters, we have a plan to modernize our licensing processes to match the scale and dynamism of today's space economy. | ||
| With threefold the volume of satellite and Earth station application requests compared to just a decade ago, it's untenable to just push more stuff through the same regulatory system. | ||
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We need exponential increases in our capacity at the agency and in our efficiencies. | |
| So we propose throwing away our old process and starting fresh. | ||
| That means replacing our bespoke licensing process with a licensing assembly line. | ||
| One way to think about this is we'll replace a default to no at the agency with a default to yes framework. | ||
| Straightforward licensing requests will be presumed to be in the public interest and expedited. | ||
| We'll also simplify our applications themselves, establish clear timelines so companies know what to expect, and increase flexibility for licensed operations. | ||
| Next up, we have a proposal to facilitate more intensive use of satellite spectrum, specifically in what we refer to as the upper microwave band or umfus for the initiated. | ||
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Our current sighting restrictions for these airwaves use artificial limitations and were plucked out of thin air during a bygone era. | |
| We'll now propose a wide range of reforms to our Earth station sighting rules to more intensely use these spectrum bands to streamline the Earth station licensing process. | ||
| We believe these changes will help earth stations and put more 5G spectrum to more intensive use while living side by side without harmful interference. | ||
| And that's just the space innovations that we're tackling at the FCC this month. | ||
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There's more to come in the months ahead. | |
| Combined, these actions will mark not just a small step forward, but a giant leap in the Commission's work to promote U.S. space dominance. | ||
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Our end goal is clear. | |
| We want to reach a point where we have automated many of these processes, and that goal is now getting a few steps closer. | ||
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Today I brought some of my team out here. | |
| In particular, I want to note Jay Schwartz, who's the head of our Space Bureau. | ||
| Jay is here. | ||
| If you've not met Jay yet, I would encourage you to do that. | ||
| Jay has got probably one of the most important jobs back in DC at the FCC, which is to see all of these changes through for the U.S. space economy work that we do at the agency. | ||
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So feel free to stop by. | |
| If you have a pain point in your operations right now, Jay will find a way to solve it. | ||
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At least I hope he will. | |
| Now, look, I'd like to close with this. | ||
| I spoke earlier about how the White House just designated space innovation as one of the nation's five most important RD priorities. | ||
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There's something else about this initiative that I think speaks to this moment. | |
| The Trump administration's position on RD is not just that it needs to be more targeted, but that needs to be more ambitious too. | ||
| America's scientists often spend 40% of their time doing paperwork on grant applications rather than direct research. | ||
| And the new grant applications they work on are too often aimed at what will get funded rather than what will have the biggest impact. | ||
| University of Chicago Professor James Evans summed up our problem this way. | ||
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He wrote, too many projects get funded because they are probable, but science moves forward one improbability at a time. | |
| The United States is the greatest country in human history because, like no other nation, risk-taking is in our DNA. | ||
| As Americans, we imagine the impossible and then make it real. | ||
| And after being too timid for too long, America is finally getting its mojo back. | ||
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Under President Trump's leadership, we're entering a golden age of innovation in space, and we're looking to all of you to play a crucial role. | |
| Think about it. | ||
| Moonshot. | ||
| That's the most popular metaphor out there for our most ambitious endeavors. | ||
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For this crowd, moonshots are what you do on a Tuesday. | |
| So good luck tomorrow. | ||
| You're pushing boundaries like Americans always have. | ||
| Please know that you have committed partners at the FCC and in Washington who are doing everything we can to make your next big breakthrough possible. | ||
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Thank you again for hosting me today. | |
| I look forward to learning more from the panel discussion and from getting to say hello to many of you today. | ||
| Congratulations again to Ian and Max on this great ribbon-cutting and facility. | ||
| It looks a lot better and less dusty than I was here just a short 18 months ago. | ||
| Thanks for hosting me today. | ||
| Great to see you all. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| As the government shutdown enters its seventh day, the Senate on Monday again failed to pass a funding measure during two votes on the chamber floor. | ||
| Both the Democratic and Republican funding proposals were blocked in the Senate, with the Democratic budget proposal including an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. | ||
| President Trump has said he's open to a health care deal with Democrats, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said during a press conference on Capitol Hill that the White House has, quote, gone radio silent since the Oval Office meeting last Monday, and neither leader Schumer or myself have heard a word from the administration about resolving this issue. | ||
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