3060-AL36 202404 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 3060 Federal Communications Commission FCC FCC Seeks to Enable State-of-the-Art Radar Sensors in 60 GHz Band (ET Docket No. 21-264)

In this preceding, the Commission proposes to revise the Commission's rules to provide expanded operational flexibility to unlicensed field disturbance sensor (FDS) devices (e.g., radars) that operate in the 57-64 GHz band (60 GHz band). The Commission's proposal recognizes the increasing practicality of using mobile radar devices in the 60 GHz band to perform innovative and life-saving functions, including gesture control, detection of unattended children in vehicles, and monitoring of vulnerable medical patients, and it is designed to stimulate the development of new products and services in a wide variety of areas to include, for example, personal safety, autonomous vehicles, home automation, environmental control, and healthcare monitoring, while also ensuring coexistence among unlicensed FDS devices and current and future unlicensed communications devices in the 60 GHz band.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Long-Term Actions No No 47 CFR 15 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 201, 302a, 303, and secs. 1.407 and 1.411 Statutory NPRM 10/18/2021 Reply comments due on or before deadline date. No NPRM 08/19/2021 86 FR 46661 NPRM Comment Period End 10/18/2021 Report and Order - Final Rule 07/24/2023 88 FR 47384 2nd Report and Order - Final Rule 08/23/2023 88 FR 47384 Next Action Undetermined To Be Determined YES Businesses None No Yes No Anh Wride Electronics Engineer 3060 Federal Communications Commission FCC 202 418-0577 202 418-1944 anh.wride@fcc.gov 445 12th Street SW, Washington DC 20554 Thomas Struble 3060 Federal Communications Commission FCC 202 418-2470 thomas.struble@fcc.gov 45 L Street NE, Washington DC 20554