Native American-serving nontribal institutions (NASNTI).Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions (AANAPISI).Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian-serving institutions (ANNH).Minority-serving institutions (MSI), which include:.Historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).Local governments can apply in partnership with eligible applicantsįor purposes of applying to the CMC pilot, eligible institutions include: In other words, this is not a broadband infrastructure program-it is an opportunity for local governments to fund workforce development, curriculum development, and service with their higher education partners. The program will fund purchasing broadband services and equipment, hiring information technology personnel, and upgrading on-campus facilities. The $285 million CMC grant program was established by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 to support MSIs and their surrounding communities. Now is the time for local governments to speak to their MSI partners to identify potential projects. Local governments and minority serving institutions (MSI) have a unique partnership opportunity in the Connecting Minority Communities (CMC) Pilot Program-which has a fast-approaching application deadline on December 1, 2021. Lydia Weinberger, Civic Technology Analyst and other partner countries’ markets,” ITI concluded in its comments.Heather Mills, V.P. Only a multinational, diverse vendor base of trusted suppliers will have the capacity to service the U.S. policy, should expressly advance a diverse, trusted market of suppliers based in the United States as well as in allied and other partner market democracies. “We believe that the NTIA, as a part of broader U.S. We encourage adherence to consensus-based international cybersecurity standards, reference designs, best practices, and mobile security patents as a foundational requirement to receive grant funding.” “Security elements should play a key role in the program’s criteria. It is foundational to enable organizations to take a zero-trust approach to their multi-vendor networks, including applying security on the network slice level,” ITI wrote in its comments. We also believe that the promise of open and interoperable, standards-based RAN can be most fully realized through enterprise-grade security - which means the ability to secure the service, hardware, software, technology, and application stack by securing all layers (hardware, signaling, data, applications and management), all locations, all attack vectors, and all hardware and software life cycle stages. While companies are already taking steps to improve the security of open and interoperable, standards-based deployments, such an approach will further incentivize good cybersecurity practices. “We believe that the criteria related to receiving grants from the Innovation Fund should incorporate security. As network operators transform their networks, they are concurrently transforming their workforces to ensure smooth deployment and maintenance of virtualized infrastructure.” Funding for public labs hosting debugging events, ‘plugfests’ or other interoperability testing will help new entrants demonstrate viability along the stack, while pairing government funding with already existing research and development projects in the private sector can identify compelling Open RAN use cases and ensure that the technologies developed serve operator needs. ITI wrote in its comments that NTIA should “focus on public-private partnerships that can drive all relevant players to collaborate on specific 5G/6G innovation, including operators, end users, system integrators, colleges, and technology companies jointly implementing specific forward looking use cases. Additionally, NTIA’s support for the creation of an interoperability blueprint and end-to-end testing environments, accessible by all vendors, regardless of size and revenue, would complement ongoing private sector efforts that are building out and demonstrating commercial use cases. ITI’s comments suggest several options to scale Open-RAN, including expanding existing public projects, funding a new public lab, pilot projects, and debugging events. ITI also suggested that funds should be deployed quickly, incorporate cybersecurity best practices, and include trusted international partners. In the comments, ITI recommended that NTIA support a variety of projects that will contribute to maturing and scaling Open-RAN technology for commercial deployments. WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI urged the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to use its Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund to advance 5G and future generations of mobile technologies.
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