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BEAD key-dates calendar

BEAD key dates: Louisiana

Current status: 12 announced Benefit-of-the-Bargain awards; first state to sign subgrant agreements

Last checked: 24 September 2026. Every entry below is pinned to a named source; caveats travel with the entry. If a date matters to your application or deployment plans, verify it with the source linked.

  1. — As reported

    First BEAD-funded connections go live in Louisiana

    Fixed-wireless BEAD towers went live in Louisiana (and Nebraska), marking the programme's shift from planning to deployment — 4.5 years after the IIJA created it.

    Source: StateScoop — view the source

  2. First state to sign BEAD subgrant agreements

    ConnectLA reported Louisiana signed subgrant agreements with providers — the first state to move from award announcements to executed contracts.

    Source: ConnectLA — view the source

  3. Final Proposal v7.0

    ConnectLA's Final Proposal v7.0 — the post-restructure document whose version history incorporates NTIA's 6 June 2025 Restructuring Policy Notice. Mirrored in our documents archive (1,056,907 bytes).

    Source: ConnectLA (via Flip News documents archive) — view the source

  4. First state to win NTIA Final Proposal approval under Benefit-of-the-Bargain rules

    ConnectLA reported Louisiana as the first state approved under the restructured framework — the first approved under the old rules in January was also the first under the new ones.

    Source: ConnectLA — view the source

  5. — Announced, not awarded — as reported

    ConnectLA announces 12 new Benefit-of-the-Bargain awardees (~US$499m)

    The 12 announced awards (US$498,296,587 / 126,798 locations) are transcribed in our BEAD Money Tracker with press-report verification labels — Louisiana has not published an official final award list.

    Source: ConnectLA (via Telecompetitor) — view the source

More BEAD dates

  • National key-dates calendar — upcoming obligations and national milestones.
  • Texas — 17 final awards published (provider-level); all BEAD disbursements frozen pending audit
  • California — Proposal ratified 17 September 2026; award agreement not yet signed; no final award list published
  • Florida — "Provisional awardees" only — no final award list, no contracts in FACTS
  • North Carolina — "Approved BEAD Awards" published — but the state's own caveat says all awards are contingent until contracted in 2026
  • Missouri — Final Proposal NTIA-approved; the state's BEAD page still labels awards "provisional"
  • Alabama — 63 projects announced as "preliminarily approved" — no final award list
  • Colorado — US$103m provisional award rescinded after fraud referral; locations to be rebid

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