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BEAD Isn't a Bureaucratic Boondoggle: Former NTIA Official

The biggest criticisms of BEAD -- its timeline and complexity of the grant-approval process -- were crafted to deliver timely benefits while still meeting statutory imperatives that originated through bipartisan consensus, former NTIA senior adviser Tim Stelzig wrote Wednesday. Although…

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there has been little BEAD deployment work since the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act became law in late 2021, BEAD isn't a good example "of an outsized bureaucratic preference for process," despite some critics painting it that way, he said.