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About BTOP:Funded at $4.7 billion, BTOP provides grants to support the deployment of broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas, to enhance broadband capacity at public computer centers, and to encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service. Through this support, BTOP will also advance the Recovery Act’s objectives to spur job creation and stimulate long-term economic growth and opportunity.What's New?See also Broadband USA - The portal to apply for broadband funding Congressional Testimony: Hearing to Review Rural Broadband Programs Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Testimony of Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, NTIA, before the Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture
United States House of Representatives. (Print version Acrobat PDF 91 Kb) NTIA's Third Quarterly Status Report to Congress:
NTIA submitted the third quarterly status report
on the Broadband Technology and Opportunities Program
(BTOP) to Congress on November 16, 2009. Federal Register Notice: Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Joint Request for Information: RUS and NTIA released a joint Request for Information (RFI) seeking comment on further implementation of the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). Comments must be received by November 30, 2009. The input the agencies expect to receive from this process is intended to inform the second round of funding. (Adobe PDF 66 Kb) Press Release: NTIA Awards Grants for Broadband Mapping and Planning: NTIA announced that it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Alabama, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming under NTIA's State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. The program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will increase broadband access and adoption through better data collection and broadband planning. (Print version Acrobat PDF 91 KB) Press Release: NTIA Awards Grants for Broadband Mapping and Planning in Arkansas, the District of Columbia, and New York: NTIA today announced that it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Arkansas, the District of Columbia, and New York under NTIA's State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. The program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will increase broadband access and adoption through better data collection and broadband planning. (Print version Acrobat PDF 23 kb)
Press Release: NTIA Announces First State Broadband Mapping Grants: NTIA today announced that it has awarded the first four grants under NTIA’s State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program to fund activities in California, Indiana, North Carolina, and Vermont. The program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will increase broadband access and adoption through better data collection and broadband planning. (Print version Acrobat PDF 71 Kb) Congressional Testimony: Hearing on Oversight of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Broadband, Part 2: Testimony of Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, NTIA, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. (Print version Acrobat PDF 46 Kb) Press Release: NTIA'S Broadband Mapping Initiative Off to Strong Start: All U.S. States, Territories, and D.C. Apply to Participate in Program Federal Register Notice: Clarification regarding the period of performance for awards under the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program (Broadband Mapping Program).(PDF 50Kb) Press
Release: Commerce and Agriculture Announce Strong Demand for First Round of Funding to Bring Broadband, Jobs to More Americans: Nearly 2,200 Diverse Applications Submitted for Share of $4 Billion in Funding to Expand Broadband Access and Adoption. (Acrobat PDF 98 Kb) Federal Register Notice: Method of acceptance of supplemental attachments: RUS and NTIA announce additional measures to ensure that all pending electronic applications can be submitted by the extended application deadline of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 20, 2009. All applicants must complete and submit their core application by the extended deadline. To the extent that any applicant has been unable to upload any of the attachments to the application by the extended deadline, it may submit those attachments on an appropriate electronic medium by hand-delivery no later than 5:00 p.m. ET on August 24, 2009 or postmarked no later than August 24, 2009. For applicants that choose a delivery service requiring a contact name and telephone number, that name and number is LaShemma Simmons, (888) 861-5509 [option 5]. (PDF 53 Kb) Federal
Register Notice: Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP)
and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
Extension of Application Closing Deadline for Pending
Electronic Applications: The U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Rural Utility Service (RUS) and Commerce's
NTIA announced that the application closing deadline
for BIP and BTOP is extended until 5 p.m. Eastern Time
(ET) on August 20, 2009, for any electronic applications
pending as of 5 p.m. ET on August 14, 2009. There are
no changes to the filing instructions for paper applications. (Acrobat
PDF 50 Kb) State Broadband Data and Development Program (Broadband Mapping Program) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) (Broadband Mapping Program). (Acrobat PDF 263 Kb) Federal Register Notice: State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program Clarification. On August 7, 2009, NTIA released the following Notice clarifying the information collection requirements for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program (Broadband Mapping Program). (Acrobat PDF 42 Kb) State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program Online Workshop. On July 24, 2009, the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hosted an online workshop on its recently announced grant program to fund collection of state-level broadband data, as well as state-wide broadband mapping and planning. (Acrobat PDF 24 Kb)
Federal Register Notice: Broadband Technology Opportunities Program publication of OMB control number for information collection. Comments on the collection of information requirements in the BTOP NOFA are due by August 31, 2009. (Acrobat PDF 42 Kb) Congressional Testimony: Hearing on Review of Rural Broadband Programs: Testimony of Mark G. Seifert, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, NTIA, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture. (Print version Acrobat PDF 52 Kb) Federal Register Notice: Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) and solicitation of applications for the Broadband Initiatives Program and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. (Acrobat PDF 321 Kb) Federal Register Notice: Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. (Acrobat PDF 167 Kb) Federal Register Notice: Buy American Exemption under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Acrobat PDF 56 Kb) Press Release: U.S. Senate Confirms Lawrence E. Strickling As Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Please send news media inquiries to press@ntia.doc.gov. |
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