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The Digital Economy Board of Advisors met on December 15, 2016. 

• 12/15/2016 DEBA Meeting Agenda
• Notice of 12/15/2016 DEBA Meeting
• 12/15/2017 DEBA Meeting Transcript

DEBA Meeting Documents:

The Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force will be holding a public meeting on December 9, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on Developing the Digital Marketplace for Copyrighted Works. The meeting will be held at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22314.

This notice announces an open meeting of the Digital Economy Board of Advisors. The meeting will be held on December 15, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST) at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.  For further information, please contact Evelyn Remaley, Designated Federal Officer (DFO), at (202) 482-3821 or [email protected]

Pursuant to Section 6001(d)(4) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA or Recovery Act) (Public Law No. 111-5), NTIA provides this Quarterly Report on the status of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. This Report focuses on the Program’s activities from January 1 to March 31, 2016.

In this report, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) presents a summary of the results of its quantitative assessments of spectrum usage in response to the 2013 Presidential Memorandum entitled Expanding America’s Leadership in Wireless Innovation. Through this memorandum, the President sought to make more spectrum available by allowing and encouraging shared access by commercial providers to spectrum that is currently allocated for federal use.

On behalf of the Executive Branch, NTIA submits these supplemental comments to further address the NPRM proposal to establish time periods for Executive Branch review of applications and petitions referred to it by the Commission, in light of the extensive comment on this issue by other entities including telecommunications companies, trade associations, and law firms. 

*Paul V. Anuszkiewicz, Vice President for Spectrum Planning, CTIA
Dr. Larry Alder, Director, Access Strategy, Google LLC
Audrey L. Allison, Senior Director, Frequency Management Services, The Boeing Company
*Mary Louise Brown, Senior Director, Spectrum and Technology Policy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
*Laurie Moe Buckhout, President and CEO, Corvus Group
Michael A. Calabrese, Director, The New American Foundation, Wireless Future Program

NTIA will convene a meeting of a multistakeholder process concerning the collaboration between security researchers and software and system developers and owners to address security vulnerability disclosure on November 7, 2016,  from 12:00 p.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.  

NTIA, as the President’s principal adviser on domestic and international telecommunications policies, and on behalf of federal agency purchasers of telecommunications services, respectfully petitions the Commission to reconsider or to clarify certain parts of its Second Report and Order (Second Report) in the Technology Transitions, et al. proceeding. NTIA and the federal government fully support the “tech transition” and we applaud the Commission for the leadership shown in the Second Report.

NTIA will webcast a meeting of the multistakeholder process concerning Internet of Things Security Upgradability and Patching.  The meeting is scheduled for October 19, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Central Daylight Time. Problem with the webcast? Email [email protected].