Wash. Broadband Office Postpones NOFO

The Washington State Broadband Office delayed a notice of funding opportunity for its infrastructure acceleration grant (IAG) program, the state’s Commerce Department said Tuesday. The broadband office originally planned to release the NOFO in mid-June but now expects it will come out this fall, with award announcements likely in the first quarter of next year, the department said. The office “plans to use the time between now and the NOFO release in the fall to receive critical stakeholder engagement on a set of policy and procedure questions that are critical to the work we’re all doing,” said Commerce: It will send out questions for comment in “the next few weeks” and host a roundtable discussion in early fall.