Overview
This tracker features information on active BEAD challenge processes, including dates for the opening and closing of online portals to submit challenges as well as links to those portals. Eligible Entities whose portals are no longer accepting challenges are displayed in the “Past Challenges” table below. To check the progress of a BEAD Eligible Entity's Initial Proposal in NTIA's approval process, visit our BEAD Initial Proposal Progress Dashboard."
Active and Upcoming Challenges
Eligible Entity |
Challenge Process Portal Opens |
Challenge Process Portal Closes |
Link to State Challenge Submission Portal |
|---|---|---|---|
|
California |
07/08/2024 | 08/06/2024 | California BEAD Challenge Process |
|
Maryland |
07/16/2024 | 08/15/2024 | Maryland BEAD Challenge Process |
|
Minnesota |
07/22/2024 | 08/21/2024 | Minnesota BEAD Challenge Process |
| New Hampshire | 07/15/2024 | 08/14/2024 | New Hampshire BEAD Challenge Process |
Past Challenges
Eligible Entity |
Challenge Process Portal Opened |
Challenge Process Portal Closed |
Link to State Challenge Submission Portal |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Samoa | 06/01/2024 | 06/21/2024 | American Samoa BEAD Challenge Process |
| Alaska | 05/06/2024 | 06/05/2024 | Alaska Broadband Office BEAD Challenge and Rebuttal Portal |
| Arizona | 03/15/2024 | 05/14/2024 | The Challenge Process |
| Arkansas | 03/20/2024 | 04/19/2024 | Arkansas BEAD Mapping Challenge Process |
| Colorado | 01/10/2024 | 02/09/2024 | |
| Connecticut | 04/01/2024 | 04/30/2024 | Connecticut BEAD Challenge Portal |
| Delaware | 01/17/2024 | 02/20/2024 | |
| Georgia | 03/04/2024 | 04/02/2024 | BEAD Challenges | Georgia Broadband Program |
| Idaho | 06/03/2024 | 07/01/2024 | Idaho BEAD Challenge Process |
| Illinois | 02/27/2024 | 03/18/2024 | Illinois Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Challenge Portal |
|
Indiana |
03/04/2024 | 04/17/2024 | Indiana Broadband: Challenge Process |
| Iowa | 05/15/2024 | 06/13/2024 | Iowa BEAD Map Challenge Process |
| Kansas | 12/15/2023 | 01/14/2024 | |
| Kentucky | 05/06/2024 | 06/10/2024 | KY BEAD Challenge |
| Louisiana | 10/06/2023 | 11/05/2023 | |
| Maine | 04/26/2024 | 05/31/2024 | Maine's BEAD State Led Challenge Process |
| Massachusetts | 06/20/2024 | 07/20/2024 | Massachusetts BEAD Challenge Process |
| Michigan | 03/25/2024 | 04/23/2024 | BEAD Challenge Process |
| Missouri | 03/25/2024 | 05/08/2024 | Office of Broadband: Broadband Availability Challenge |
| Montana | 01/16/2024 | 02/15/2024 | |
| Nebraska | 03/15/2024 | 04/14/2024 | Challenge - Nebraska Broadband |
| Nevada | 02/27/2024 | 03/28/2024 | Nevada Bead Challenge Home |
| New Mexico | 04/18/2024 | 05/18/2024 | New Mexico BEAD Challenge Process |
| New York | 03/19/2024 | 04/18/2024 | New York State Broadband Challenge Process | ConnectALL Office |
| North Dakota | 04/18/2024 | 05/19/2024 | North Dakota Broadband Challenge |
|
Northern Mariana Islands |
06/01/2024 | 06/30/2024 | CNMI-Broadband Policy & Development [BPD] |
|
Ohio |
05/28/2024 | 06/17/2024 | Ohio BEAD Challenge Process and Grant Program |
| Oregon | 04/22/2024 | 05/22/2024 | Oregon BEAD Challenge Portal |
| Pennsylvania | 04/24/2024 | 05/23/2024 | Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority - BEAD Challenge Process |
|
Rhode Island |
05/29/2024 | 07/06/2024 | Rhode Island State Challenge Process |
|
South Carolina |
04/15/2024 | 05/15/2024 | South Carolina BEAD Challenge Process |
|
South Dakota |
05/15/2024 | 06/14/2024 | South Dakota BEAD Challenge Process |
| Tennessee | 05/07/2024 | 06/01/2024 | Tennessee BEAD Challenge Process |
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Utah |
04/18/2024 | 05/28/2024 | State Broadband Challenge Portal |
| Vermont | 03/18/2024 | 04/01/2024 | Vermont BEAD Challenge Process |
| Virginia | 11/01/2023 | 12/01/2023 |
Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program | DHCD |
|
Washington |
04/15/2024 | 05/14/2024 | Washington's BEAD Challenge Process |
| West Virginia | 02/10/2024 | 03/10/2024 | West Virginia Challenge Home |
| Wisconsin | 04/29/2024 | 05/29/2024 | Wisconsin Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment Program Challenge Process |
| Wyoming | 05/20/2024 | 06/19/2024 | Wyoming Broadband Equity, Access & Deployment Program Challenge Portal |
*NOTE: Dates shown above reflect the period during which eligible challengers can submit challenge data to the portal. After the portal closes, Eligible Entities may require time to resolve the challenges before the process formally closes.