Lauriston Hardin

Chief Technical Advisor, NTIA

Speaker Bio

T. Lauriston Hardin, Senior Technology Advisor to NTIA’s $1.5B Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, has over 37 years of experience in the telecommunications industry covering a broad range of activities. Most recently, Mr. Hardin has focused on 5G networks (RAN and Core) providing technical expert support in the Sprint-T-Mobile merger litigation, Subject Matter Expert consulting to the US Department of Defense’s 5G to Next G Initiative, NTIA/ITS’s 5G Challenge and RIC Forum, and the PWSCIF.  Mr. Hardin holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a licensed Professional Engineer.