Department of Commerce
Department of Commerce Invests $3.2 Million for Tribal Broadband Infrastructure in Montezuma County, Colorado
US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.2 million grant to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Towaoc (CO) to construct broadband infrastructure. The project will provide high-speed internet service connecting the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation and the city of Towaoc to the city of Cortez, increasing access to distance learning and telemedicine, supporting public safety, and allowing for business and entrepreneurial growth across the reservation and region.
This Native American Heritage Month We Must Recommit to Closing the Digital Divide and Increasing Digital Equity and Opportunity for Native Americans
As our Nation honors Native American Heritage Month, the Department of Commerce remains committed to building back a better, more equitable economy where no one is left behind. By implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will help ensure every person in this country, especially those living on Tribal land and other underserved
Department of Commerce’s Use of Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Funding to Help Close the Digital Divide
$48 billion of that funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal is being allocated to the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) through the following programs:
Digital Inclusion Week 2021: Supporting Digital Equity and Digital Empowerment
The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is joining more than 600 organizations to celebrate Digital Inclusion Week, an annual event that raises awareness of solutions to address home internet access, personal devices, and local technology training and support programs.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Addresses Importance of Affordable Broadband Access at Tallinn Digital Summit (Department of Commerce)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 09/14/2021 - 14:52Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Joins Senator Roger Wicker on Mississippi Tour Focused on Broadband, Maritime Technology and (Department of Commerce)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/01/2021 - 14:15Don Graves Sworn-in As Deputy Secretary of Commerce (Department of Commerce)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 05/14/2021 - 17:09Twenty Five Years Later: Commerce Continues to Honor the Lives of Secretary Ron Brown and Eleven Commerce Employees (Department of Commerce)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 16:57Spotlight on Commerce: Rebecca Dorch, Senior Spectrum Policy Analyst, NTIA
Spectrum policy is a long game, so the successes, failures, and impacts are not generally immediately apparent or recognized. Thinking about Women’s History Month cannot help but bring to mind Anita Longley, a much-admired spectrum pioneer from the NationalTelecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS). Along with her ITS colleague Phil Rice, in the 1970s Longley developed the Longley-Rice propagation model.