On November 16, 2023, NIST’s Robert Bohn and colleagues in NIST’s Transformational Networks and Services (TNS) group hosted an international team of government and industry collaborators from South Korea and Germany to discuss current updates with Project Agility. Project Agility is a multi-national research project which focuses on the networks and service federation of 5G testbeds. Additional meeting participants included Dr. Abdella Battou, Smart Connected Systems Division Chief, Dr. Bin Hu (TNS), Dr. Taesang Choi of ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Dr. Moon Park of Mobigen, Dr. Ranganai Chaparadza of CapGemini, and Dr. Sejun Song of University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The primary purpose of the meeting was to discuss the testbed collaboration directions, expansion of collaboration with KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom), further development and incorporation of selected decision elements in the framework, and additional brainstorming on future collaborations. After the meeting, the group toured the 5G Wireless Industrial Testbed with NIST’s Rick Candell. The group was interested in the testbed setup and learned more about additional NIST facilities and capabilities.