a. The
Communications-Electronics
Resources
Management
Directorate, Assistant Chief of Staff for Communications-Electronics;
is responsible for processing of equipment allocation actions.
Allocation actions are essentially forward looking; that is, they are
in support of plans, concepts or equipment which are in development.
New communications-electronics equipment items must be supportable
within the spectrum resources available before development funds are
provided.
Unlike, an assignment, which is granted primarily on the
basis of current needs, allocations must be studied in terms of
potential impact on longer term spectrum resources.
Assignments
normally are granted only if an equipment allocation has already been
granted.
b. An equipment allocation is an authorization to proceed with
the development, production, procurement, or lease of military
communications-electronics
equipment
designed
to
operate
in
designated frequency bands with specified emission characteristics.
Equipment
allocation
do
not
constitute
authority
to
operate
equipment. Equipment allocations may be for experimental research or
exploratory development, for advanced or engineering development, or
(1) An allocation for experimental research or exploratory
development is authorized to test the feasibility of new techniques
or concepts of natural phenomena and environment and efforts toward
solution of problems in the physical, behavioral and social sciences
that have no direct military application; or to test the feasibility
of adapting conventional techniques to new purpose prior to
projection into development planning (includes all effort directed
toward solution of specific military problems, short, or major
development projects).
(2) An allocation for advanced or engineering development is
authorization to develop equipments which have moved into the
development of hardware for experimental or operational tests; or to
modify existing operational equipments for improved performance; or
to develop programs being engineered for service use but which have
not yet been approved for production and service deployment; or to
continue development of equipment/systems that have been approved for
production and service use.
(3) An operational allocation is authorization to procure
equipment which has passed the development phase and is planned for
operational use of either tactical and training purposes or
nontactical purposes (such as for test range instrumentation
purposes).
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