NTIA toots its own horn in regard to BEAD. Or is it a swan song?

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has laid out a list of all its accomplishments related to the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. But somehow, the list has a sad ring to it—as if it’s the final swan song of a group that’s worked very hard for three years but knows that all that work could get kicked under the rug by the new Trump administration. But in the interim, NTIA put out an announcement, updating everyone on the program and touting its milestones. The agency has approved all 56 BEAD Initial Proposals. NTIA also published a new BEAD Progress Dashboard to reflect the next phase of the program. It shows that nine states have begun the selection of sub-grantees.