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BEAD: the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment programme

BEAD is the US federal programme funding broadband buildouts in unserved areas, administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) . This hub collects everything Flip News publishes on it: the latest stories, the BEAD Money Tracker with per-award sourced data, key dates, and plain-English explainers.

5 stories tagged BEAD — last updated 18 Sep 2026.

Data & trackers

  • BEAD Money Tracker

    Per-award BEAD subgrantee data with per-row sources and verification labels — release 2026.09.19.1 (Texas, 17 awards). Dataset last verified 19 September 2026.

  • BEAD key dates (PDF)

    National milestones plus Texas, California and Florida deadlines — every date pinned to a named source. Last checked 20 September 2026.

  • State funding cheat sheet (PDF)

    17 checkable funding facts with a sources column and per-fact caveats. Last checked 21 September 2026.

  • Raw award data

    The tracker dataset as versioned, machine-readable CSV and JSON — one row per subaward, per-row source URLs included.

Latest BEAD coverage

Explainers & guides

How we cover BEAD

Every award figure on this hub carries its source and a verification label; tracker pages are stamped with "last verified" dates and a staleness policy. Nothing is presented as an official award list when it isn't — where a state hasn't published final awards, we say so plainly. Read the full "How we cover BEAD" methodology note, plus our newsroom methodology and the corrections log.

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