The White House said Thursday that it would develop a national spectrum strategy to help the US "win the global race to 5G."

Deputy US Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios issued a memo Thursday afternoon that stated the administration's intent to "accelerate our development and deployment of 5G." The cornerstone of that plan is to "additional spectrum" available for deployment of next-generation mobile networks.

President Trump also issued a Presidential Memorandum Thursday entitledDeveloping a Sustainable Spectrum Strategy for America's Future, which will ask government agencies to examine what spectrum they need for federal usage, and what can be opened up for commercial purposes, with an initial report due next summer.

Trump's memo roll supplants two Obama-era memos on spectrum policy from 2010 and 2013.