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02/12/2013 FirstNet Board Meeting Documents

Agenda

Minutes from 12/11/2012 Meeting

Board Actions

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FirstNet Board Of Directors Meeting Agenda
February 12, 2013
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Radio Building 1 (Room 1107)
325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Mountain Standard Time

Opening Remarks (Chairman Ginn)

Minutes of the December 2012 Board Meeting

Board Actions (Chairman Ginn)

1. Why did NTIA establish SLIGP? 

The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Act) directs the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to establish a grant program to assist state, regional, tribal, and local jurisdictions with identifying, planning, and implementing the most efficient and effective means to use and integrate the infrastructure, equipment, and other architecture associated with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) to satisfy the wireless broadban

NTIA issues this Federal Funding Opportunity to describe the requirements under which NTIA will award grants for the State and Local Implementation Grant Program (SLIGP), authorized by section 6302 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, to assist State, local, and tribal governments with planning for a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network. Applications will be accepted from February 6, 2013 until March 19, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriated $4.7 billion for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to establish the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).  As required by the Act, NTIA designed this grant program to increase broadband access and adoption; provide broadband training and support to schools, libraries, healthcare providers, and other organizations; improve broadband access to public safety agencies; and stimulate demand for broadband.

Final Response to NTIA’s Evaluation of  CSMAC’s Recommendations of the Final Report of the Interference and Dynamic Spectrum Access Subcommittee