Assistance program
Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Grant Program
$520.2 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 11.038
- What it does
- The Innovation Fund is a ten-year, $1.5 billion grant program, advancing open wireless network technologies. The purpose of the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (Innovation Fund) program is to fund efforts that accelerate the development, deployment, and adoption of open and interoperable radio access networks (RAN) through a competitive grant program. The Innovation Fund will: Promote 5G+ technologies that are secure, open, and virtualized; advance the deployment of open and interoperable equipment; support the integration of multi-vendor networks and identify criteria to decide if equipment follows open standards.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Not Applicable
- Program site
- https://www.ntia.gov/page/innovation-fund ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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