Publications

The FirstNet Board will convene open public meetings of the Board Committees on December 16, 2013, in Denver, Colorado. There will be sequential meetings of FirstNet’s four committees: (1) Governance and Personnel Committee; (2) Finance, Audit and Budget Committee; (3) Planning and Technology Committee; and (4) Outreach Committee. The meetings are open to the public and press, and will be webcast.

The FirstNet Board will convene an open public meeting on December 17, 2013,  in Denver, Colorado 80207. This meeting is open to the public and press, and will be webcast.

NTIA will hold the first meeting of a privacy multistakeholder process regarding the commercial use of facial recognition technology on February 6, 2014.

This web page provides details on the NTIA-convened privacy multistakeholder process regarding the commercial use of facial recognition technology. On December 3, 2013, NTIA announced that the goal of the second multistakeholder process is to develop a voluntary, enforceable code of conduct that specifies how the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights applies to facial recognition technology in the commercial context. Please refer to this page for the most current information.

In this letter, NTIA responds to the AWS-3 NPRM for purposes of: (1) supplementing the information NTIA submitted to the FCC in July and April 2013 prior to adoption of the NPRM; (2) proposing specific changes to the U.S. Table of Frequency Allocations for the 2025-2110 MHz band that are necessary to implement the alternative proposal of the Department of Defense (DoD) to relocate key operations from the 1755-1780 MHz band; and (3) addressing other important issues raised in the NPRM.

Building on previous work examining broadband availability across different geographies by population, this report examines broadband availability by job location. As in Broadband Availability, Beyond the Rural/Urban Divide, this report divides the United States into five categories based on degree of urbanization. Rather than examining broadband and general population levels, however, this report assesses the impact of broadband availability in the workplace. Virtually all jobs have access to very basic broadband speeds.

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This web page provides links and information regarding public meetings of the NTIA privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile applications transparency.  More information regarding the NTIA multistakeholder process is available here: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/other-publication/2013/privacy-multistakeholder-process-mobile-application-transparency

Meeting Documents

The NIST-NTIA presentation slides from the 11/06/2013 Innovative Spectrum Sharing Technology Day are attached.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker appointed Barry Boniface to serve on the Board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created FirstNet as an independent entity within NTIA, and charged it with establishing a nationwide public safety broadband network.