1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Novel, Advanced Spectrum and Communications Technology Networks Promotion Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the principal advisor to the President on all telecommunications and information issues. (2) The NTIA represents executive branch agencies on electromagnetic spectrum issues before the Federal Communications Commission. (3) Understanding radio frequency propagation characteristics is a critical component of making spectrum management and spectrum policy decisions. (4) The NTIA relies on expert engineering studies and analyses to make determinations about system relocations to make spectrum available, as well as to identify spectrum sharing opportunities. (5) Spectrum clearing, when feasible, is the priority action to make federally assigned spectrum available for commercial uses. (6) Spectrum sharing provides commercial access to federally assigned spectrum in circumstances in which clearing is not feasible. (7) The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of the NTIA is the Federal Government’s premier expert laboratory for spectrum study activities, including spectrum interference studies, and all activities related to advancing next generation technologies. (8) The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences is critical for undertaking engineering studies and analyses, identifying clearing or sharing opportunities, and performing tests that inform spectrum policy decisions to maximize the efficient use of spectrum resources. 3. Spectrum management improvements (a) Prototyping Consistent with subparagraphs (F), (L), (P), and (U) of section 103(b)(2) of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act ( 47 U.S.C. 902(b)(2) ), the Assistant Secretary shall support the establishment, prototyping, and implementation of common models, common methodologies, and common inputs to inform electromagnetic spectrum management decisions, such as— (1)