Broadband Infrastructure Playbook: Implementing BEAD and other Broadband Deployment Programs

With the enactment of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), we finally have the resources and direction to enable us to achieve universal connectivity. Yet, success is not assured. We now need to turn our attention to execution, making sure we invest these enormous resources in infrastructure that will connect communities for decades to come. The goal of this playbook is to provide a valuable resource to the states and territories to help them accelerate the availability of funding, provide best practices from past state broadband grant programs that have worked well, and help provide some consistency in the process nationwide. The playbook is organized into 4 sections:

1. The State Broadband Office: Best practices for organizing and running a state broadband office well prepared for administering Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD).
2. The BEAD Application: Stages of the BEAD application to the NTIA including statutory requirements and pointers in preparing to unlock funding.
3. Grant Program Design: Key steps in designing the state broadband grant program to achieve state and federal goals.
4. Grant Program Administration: Process steps involved in running a successful state grant program.