This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is the third issued under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (Innovation Fund).
The Innovation Fund is an NTIA-administered competitive grant program that seeks to accelerate the development, deployment, and adoption of open and interoperable
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radio access networks (RAN).
In this third NOFO, NTIA will invest in software solutions to further drive Open RAN adoption.
Software design is a specific strength of U. S. innovation, and NTIA hopes that this software-centric third NOFO will elicit broad interest from the tech community.
Through these awards, NTIA aims to identify and validate new Open RAN-enabled revenue streams, while reducing the cost and complexity of multi-vendor integration.
These efforts will help expand market opportunities for suppliers and operators, in turn facilitating Open RAN adoption in upcoming equipment buying cycles and beyond.