OICG commits to providing digital opportunities and ensuring universal broadband access through four interconnected core pillars: funding broadband infrastructure and digital opportunity efforts; leveraging data to make informed program management decisions; facilitating broad stakeholder coordination to enhance understanding beyond data; and building the capacity of communities to actively shape their connected future. OICG prioritizes data-driven decision-making, employing resources to ensure federal broadband infrastructure grants benefit unserved and underserved areas. OICG furthers the deployment and use of broadband technology, which lays the groundwork for sustainable economic growth, improved education, public safety, health care, and the advancement of other national priorities. OICG also fulfills its other duties as outlined in the ACCESS BROADBAND Act, including connecting with communities that need access to high-speed Internet, promoting broadband access and adoption, and developing training and publications to promote strategies to expand broadband access and adoption in a variety of communities, among other legislatively mandated responsibilities.
NTIA’s OICG is also managing nearly $50 billion in broadband investments made by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL) and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). With the passage of this legislation, OICG is responsible for implementing the following programs
- The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program
- The Broadband Infrastructure Program (BIP)
- The Connecting Minority Communities (CMC) Pilot Program
- The Tribal Broadband Connectivity Grant Program
- Three Digital Equity Act programs
- The Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure (Middle Mile) Program