[supernova87a]

Sigh, these always read like such PR department unclear jargony press releases.

"...The 5G Challenge would leverage the innovative capabilities of the software development and telecommunications technology communities to enable more open implementations of 5G systems, including end-user equipment, the radio access network, and the core network, with a focus on the 5G protocol stack software. "

How about:

"We want to run a game with a big reward. A game that gets people to come up with the most innovative, clever, secure, resilient ways to use 5G for our military that we haven't seen before.

Do you have ideas for how 5G can be implemented in open hardware or software? Do you have ideas for how we can structure a game and its reward to achieve something like that?

Let us know if you have ideas, and you may be able to be a part of something big."

[gostsamo]

Or you can read this as:

We are behind in the game and we don't have anyone capable in this sphere. Nokia, Erikson, Huawey, and Samsung have all the market now and we need american presence there. We can't create a state company, so we will try to break the leaders either by sanctions or by diminishing the value of their IP through open standards until the moment when the standards are open enough to favorite our proprietary IP using them.

[ksec]

It is Ericsson and Huawei. In case anyone reading and not well versed on the subject.

While the 3GPP Profile and Spec aren't exactly "Open" by Open Source and HN's Standard, It is definitely not closed or proprietary. You can implement a working 3G / 4G / 5G system. It just wouldn't be competitive with commercial offering.

And US actually has plenty of IP via Qualcomm in Core Standards. Ignoring IoT and AV ( Autonomous Vehicle ). Also partly via Nokia when acquired Alcatel-Lucent, where Lucent is from AT&T Bell Labs.

So No, US aren't out of the 5G circle. They just dont have any companies making specific part of the 5G infrastructure.

[gostsamo]

Yes, and which US company provides the substitutions for the ripped out Huawei 5g stations? Saying that US has 5G presence is the same as pointing at OVH to prove that the EU has cloud capabilities.

Be serious, being in the periphery means that Trump was proposing buying share in Nokia and not investing in Cisco.

[imglorp]

To generalize, we are behind in X and we need American presence in a bunch of Xs. Relative to our prior leadership...

We fell down on basic R&D: most of the labs got wiped out by "cost accounting" and short term profit seeking.

We fell down on basic infrastructure: much of the country isn't gigabit, let alone DSL.

We fell down on basic STEM education. Other countries pay for everyone's education as an investment in the future.

We fell down retaining existing leadership areas, offshoring them for short term profit. Now we can't make some of these things and need to buy them back with import tariffs.

Who could have forseen this coming?

[BobbyJo]

I mean, the reality is America is too expensive to be successful in commodities markets. We have to prop up farming with subsidies just to keep them afloat. Hardware was commoditized a few decades ago and doesn't provide the margins for a business to thrive here without government help.

It's good, because it means we are generally focused on more profitable endeavors. It's bad because it means most of what we 'need', since commodities are the basis of our lives, get produced elsewere. This was fine when we had the wool of globalism pulled over our eyes, but COVID and the rise of China have shown us it was a pipe dream the whole time.

[wmf]

The point of this discussion is that the US is also losing in some high-tech fields like semiconductor fabrication and 5G. Can we survive on just software?

[rcoveson]

That and pizza delivery.

[BobbyJo]

Just because it's high tech doesn't mean it isn't commoditized.

[LatteLazy]

>Having dropped the ball on cisco being shit, the DOD is now willing to spend some cash to look like they are holding at least one ball in this market...

[Daho0n]

/end thread

Sorry, but I just had to. This is likely the exact scenario. Well put.

[aWidebrant]

Personally, I'll have the former style of business jargon over the latter. Sure, "leverage the innovative" doesn't mean anything, but at least it's not actively infantilizing.

[TeMPOraL]

Doesn't sound infantilizing to me. It reads like normal people talk. That's good.

Infantilizing is what 'Frondo refers to, "ninja rock stars" job descriptions. What they have in common with business jargon is using a lot of words to communicate near-zero actual content. They use language to press emotional buttons in the audience to create a desired atmosphere (importance and fun, respectively).

I think GP did a really good job, and I prefer their take.

[Frondo]

Yeah, seems like trying to get away from the business speak got us to job descriptions that call for ninja rock stars. I'll take the business jargon.