Thomas Tyler Leaving Louisiana Broadband Office

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2026 – After serving as a top official in the Louisiana broadband office since 2021, Thomas Tyler is stepping down as the agency’s deputy director.

“I won’t pretend there’s a dramatic exit story here; the truth is simpler,” he wrote in a Friday email to stakeholders. “I came into this work believing that connectivity is infrastructure in the most fundamental sense.”

Getting the massive investment from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program right “meant jobs, healthcare access, education, and economic mobility for communities that had been waiting far too long,” he wrote. “As the program now shifts from subgrantee selection into full project implementation, this feels like the right moment to step away.”