Publications

Consistent with recent Executive Orders and commitments the U.S. Department of Commerce has made under the American Broadband Initiative (ABI) to close the digital divide, NTIA is increasing minority stakeholder engagement around solving broadband access challenges in vulnerable communities. To that end, NTIA has launched the Minority Broadband Initiative (MBI), working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to ensure all Americans can participate in the digital economy.

• Agenda
• Software Component Transparency page

Meeting presentations:

NTIA will convene a meeting of a multistakeholder process on promoting software component transparency on November 18, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time. The meeting will be held at the American Institute of Architects, 1735 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20006. For further information contact Allan Friedman, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S.

NTIA provides quarterly statutory reports to Congress on the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). This report covers activities from April 1 – June 30, 2019.

• Federal Register notice

Senate Report 115-275, which accompanied the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, Pub. L. No. 116-6, directs the National Telecommunications and Information Administration(NTIA) to report to Congress on "ensuring spectrum access for radio astronomy as commercial use of radio spectrum increases." This report covers all NTIA coordination activities from October 1, 2017 through August 14, 2019.

This notice announces a public meeting of the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (Committee). The Committee provides advice to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA on spectrum management policy matters. The meeting will be held October 1, 2019, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The meeting will be held at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 201, Washington, DC 20004. For further information contact David J.