BEAD at ‘Significant Risk’ That Rules Changes Will Benefit SpaceX: Outgoing Director

Kristian Stout March 18, 2025

Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy at ICLE, is quoted in this Communications Daily article on a warning about BEAD funding from the outgoing director of NTIA. Read the full story here.

Most proposed changes are “in keeping with the original spirit of BEAD,” said Kristian Stout, director-innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics. “We want to close the digital divide, and satellite is just one technology among many that are capable of dealing with some portion of that gap.”