Executive Order 10995

telecommunications is vital to the security and welfare of this Nation and to the conduct of its foreign affairs;

it is imperative that the United States maintain an efficient and well-planned national and international telecommunications program capable of stimulating and incorporating rapid technological advances being made in the field of telecommunications;

the radio spectrum is a critical natural resource which requires effective, efficient and prudent administration in the national interest;

it is essential that responsibility be clearly assigned within the executive branch of the Government for promoting and encouraging effective and efficient administration and development of United States national and international telecommunications and for effecting the prudent use of the radio frequency spectrum by the executive branch of the Government;

the there is an immediate and urgent need for an examination of ways and means of improving the administration and utilization of the radio spectrum as a whole;

there is an immediate and urgent need for integrated short and long-range planning with respect to national and international telecommunications programs, for continuing supervision over the use of the radio frequency spectrum by the executive branch of the Government and for the development of national policies in the field of telecommunications;

, as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United States, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 305 and 606 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (47 U.S.C. 305 and 606), and by section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

John F. Kennedy The White House, February 16, 1962. [FR Doc. 1962–xxxx Filed 2–19–62; 8:45 am] Billing Code xxxx–xx–x