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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.

13 stories tagged BEAD — last updated 30 Sep 2026.

Data & trackers

  • BEAD Money Tracker

    Per-award BEAD subgrantee data with per-row sources and verification labels — release 2026.09.27.1 (Texas + Louisiana + North Dakota + Washington, 38 awards). Watch checked 27 September 2026.

  • Data story: the 25 biggest BEAD winners so far

    Our first quarterly data story — a ranked chart of the largest published BEAD subawards (Texas final contracts, Louisiana announced), with a full 29-row table, methodology, and downloadable CSV. Last verified 26 September 2026.

  • BEAD accountability time-series

    Cumulative published award dollars tracked across every dataset release, plus the dated, sourced milestones that move the numbers — awards today, construction and service as states publish them. Last verified 26 September 2026.

  • BEAD county awards database

    The searchable county view of the awards dataset: every published award with county, winner, amount, technology and per-row sources in one filterable table. County splits land here as states publish them; Texas and Louisiana provider-level rows are live.

  • 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.

  • BEAD key dates calendar

    Upcoming deadlines and obligations, national milestones and per-state dates — every entry dated and pinned to a named source. Opened 25 September 2026, last checked 25 September 2026. The printable PDF is still available.

  • BEAD public-documents archive

    The primary documents behind our BEAD reporting — final proposals, award documents, NTIA approvals and guidance, broadband-office releases — mirrored at permanent Flip News URLs with official sources. Archive opened 24 September 2026.

  • The BEAD timeline: 2021–2026

    The master chronological spine of the programme — legislation, NTIA guidance changes, state approvals, the 2025 restructuring, disbursements, litigation. Every entry dated and sourced. Opened 25 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.

Browse the full BEAD archive