Federal Communications Commission

FCC launches its Space Bureau

In today’s Federal Newscast: Lawmakers try to strengthen a law designed to stop illegal opioids from coming through the mail. OMB is close to finalizing…

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, file photo, a person with a smartphone enters the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington. Tech companies and nearly two dozen U.S. states clashed with the government in federal court Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, over the repeal of net neutrality, a set of Obama-era rules aimed at preventing big internet providers from discriminating against certain technology and services. The action rolling back the neutrality rules

This group says the federal government, for all the auctions, is still a spectrum hog

Agency Oversight

Looking for help with space regulations?

The Space Hour

Biden renominates Gigi Sohn to FCC after failed first confirmation effort

Federal Newscast

Inside the FCC decision to ban sales of Chinese-made telecom gear

Technology

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Biden administration’s cyber regulatory plan comes into focus

Cybersecurity

Biden admin. wants more federal employees to qualify for student loan forgiveness

Federal Newscast

broadband, spectrum, telecommunication. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, workers, NTIA

A former Commerce official on the internet policy work yet to be done

Technology

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2019, file photo, pamphlets are shown in the clinic of Planned Parenthood of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Biden administration on Oct. 4, 2021, reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Groups representing the clinics say they hope the rule reversal leads to the return of hundreds of service providers that left the program to protest the Trump administration's policy. HHS has estimated that the upheaval led to as many as 180,000 unintended pregnancies. The clinics provide birth control and basic health care mainly to low-income women.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Members of Congress want Pentagon to start covering birth control under TRICARE

Federal Newscast

Sammies finalist helped design lucrative spectrum auction process for FCC

People

Homes are flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in Lafitte, La. The weather died down shortly before dawn. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Many federal agencies pitching in for Hurricane Ida response

Federal Newscast

FILE - This Feb. 25, 2019 file photo shows a banner of the 5G network is displayed during the Mobile World Congress wireless show, in Barcelona, Spain. The U.S. communications regulator will hold a massive auction to bolster 5G service, the next generation of mobile networks, and will spend $20 billion for rural internet. 5G will mean faster wireless speeds and has implications for technologies like self-driving cars and augmented reality. The Federal Communications Commission said Friday, April 12, that it would hold the largest auction in U.S. history, of 3,400 megahertz, to boost wireless companies’ networks. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

NTIA, FCC need updated spectrum agreements for 5G, GAO says

Two agencies that have say-so over the allocation of spectrum generally cooperate, but their agreements are 20 years old. And with the advent of 5G, it…

Technology

DoD sets deadline for other providers to get in on new cloud project

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Pentagon is giving other cloud service providers a chance to participate in new contract after it cancelled the JEDI Cloud…

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2019, file photo, logos of Huawei are displayed at its retail shop window with the reflection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing. A committee of lawmakers on Thursday Oct. 8, 2020, is urging the British government to consider banning Chinese technology giant Huawei from the country's next-generation mobile phone networks two years earlier than planned. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

FCC explores ‘additional consequences’ for banned IT vendors to secure supply chains

Cybersecurity

The Federal Communications Commission is taking further steps to prohibit blacklisted Chinese IT vendors from doing business with U.S. telecommunications providers.