Is there an AI assistant that answers spectrum management questions?

Yes: SMART CAT HQ runs the Regulatory AI Terminal, a purpose-built AI assistant that answers spectrum coordination, licensing, compliance, and supportability questions in plain language, live in beta today. It retrieves from approved primary sources such as the NTIA Manual and the Code of Federal Regulations, and every answer carries the citations that back it.

A quick disambiguation: this page is about an assistant that answers people's questions about spectrum management and regulation. Most writing about AI and spectrum covers something else, which is AI systems that allocate or share spectrum inside networks. If you searched for a tool you can ask, you are in the right place.

What kinds of spectrum questions can it answer?

The assistant covers the questions spectrum practitioners actually face: equipment frequency allocation and DD-1494 requirements, SFAF (Standard Frequency Action Format) records, spectrum supportability, FCC licensing, NTIA certification, ITU coordination, and general regulatory interpretation. You ask in plain language. It answers from the governing sources and shows you where each answer came from.

How does the assistant cite its sources?

Every answer is retrieved from approved primary sources, and the citations are part of the answer, not an afterthought. When a reliable authority cannot be verified for a question, the assistant asks follow-up questions or flags the item for qualified review instead of guessing. That refusal to guess is the core design decision behind the product.

How is this different from asking a general chatbot?

A general chatbot answers from broad training data and may state spectrum rules from memory, without sources. The Regulatory AI Terminal is purpose-built for spectrum work: it retrieves from an approved regulatory corpus, cites the governing text for each answer, and declines to guess when it cannot ground an answer. For compliance questions, the citation is the product.

What does the spectrum AI assistant cost?

The assistant is live in beta, and plans open with the public beta; nothing is purchasable yet. Published launch pricing includes a free tier with a monthly allowance of cited chat answers, and paid tiers for heavier use. Joining the waitlist locks in launch pricing and gets you notified as access opens.

Who is it for?

It is built for the people who carry spectrum questions in their day job: DoD program office staff working an acquisition with spectrum-dependent equipment, defense contractors preparing certification paperwork, and spectrum managers in government or industry who need a grounded answer faster than a manual dig. It is a working tool, not a research demo.

Try it as it opens. The Regulatory AI Terminal is in beta now. Join the waitlist to lock in launch pricing and get access as it expands, or bring a question to the SMART CAT community forum.

Working a specific program question today? Email maurice.collins@smartcathq.com.

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