NIST Review of BEAD Funds Still Ongoing
The agency hasn't yet signed off on three BEAD spending plans under the Biden administration.
DALLAS, March 11, 2025 – An unexpected federal review is still holding up Louisiana’s $1.3 billion in federal broadband funding, one of the state’s broadband officers said Tuesday.
“The review is still ongoing,” said Thomas Tyler, deputy director of the state’s broadband office. He spoke at the Connected America conference in Dallas.
Louisiana, along with Delaware and Nevada, received approval on their spending plans for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program in the waning days of the Biden administration. That approval came from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Commerce Department agency handling BEAD.
