FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel appointed Jayne Stancavage and Kimberly Baum as Chair and Vice Chair of the agency’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) Advisory Committee. Stancavage is Vice President of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Intel Corporation. Baum is the Vice President of Spectrum Engineering and Strategy at Eutelsat Group.
The advisory committee was re-chartered on January 31, with the mission of providing the Commission with advice, technical support, and recommended proposals for the International Telecommunication Union’s WRC to be held in 2027.
The WRC is a treaty-level forum held by the International Telecommunication Union (a United Nations agency) every three to four years in which countries decide on the allocation of frequency spectrum to allow the deployment or growth of all types of radiocommunication services such as wireless, broadcasting, satellite, and aeronautical services.
“The next World Radiocommunication Conference provides an opportunity to promote U.S. leadership in the growing space economy, as well as in next-generation communications services. With so much at stake, we will be relying on this advisory committee to help develop strong proposals for the Conference,” said Rosenworcel. “Jayne and Kim have both served on several previous iterations of this committee, including in leadership positions at the working group level, and between them, have attended eleven World Radio Conferences. This depth of experience will prove invaluable to the committee as it develops recommendations.”
WRC 27 working groups have slated their meetings beginning in June. Read the schedule here.
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