Large military organizations often have deep R&D pockets and can provide challenging environments in which to put a new commercial technology through its paces. Nokia is leveraging the US Department of Defense’s testbeds to trial a method of supporting spectrum sharing controlled by a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC). The RIC is the most significant new element of the Open RAN architecture and Nokia was an early developer of a RIC, and a contributor to O-RAN Alliance standards. AT&T has been its most prominent RIC triallist so far. However, its early work was focused primarily on non-real time RIC functions and was criticized for lack of support for the most demanding applications as well as for limited multivendor interoperability.…