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About NTIA

Located within the Department of Commerce, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the Executive Branch agency principally responsible by law for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy issues.  
 
NTIA’s mission is to build a better-connected world by:

  • Ensuring that affordable, reliable high-speed Internet service is available to everyone in America; 
  • Enabling new, innovative uses of America’s wireless airwaves; 
  • Developing policies that keep the Internet safe, secure, and trusted; 
  • Putting the best communications technologies in the hands of our first responders;
  • Conducting cutting-edge research to inform tech policy decisions; and
  • Working to achieve America’s vision of a single, open, and secure Internet around the world.

These goals are critical to America’s competitiveness in the 21st century global economy and to addressing many of the nation’s most pressing needs, such as improving education, health care, and public safety.

Specific NTIA activities include:

  • Managing the Federal use of spectrum and identifying additional spectrum for commercial use;
  • Administering grant programs that further the deployment and use of broadband and other technologies in America;
  • Developing policy on issues related to the Internet economy, including online privacy, copyright protection, cybersecurity, and the global free flow of information online;
  • Promoting the stability and security of the Internet’s domain name system through its participation on behalf of the U.S. government in Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) activities; and
  • Performing telecommunications research and engineering with both Federal government and private sector partners.  

In addition to working with other Executive Branch agencies to develop Administration positions, NTIA represents the Executive Branch in both domestic and international telecommunications and information policy activities.