BEAD broadband obligations in Kentucky

Kentucky BEAD as a one-award NTIA cell

CFDA 11.035 is titled BROADBAND EQUITY, ACCESS, AND DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM. Filtered to Kentucky place of performance, obligations sum to $1,086,172,537 on 1 award. The national Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program hub includes every state. Kentucky's spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $1,086,172,537 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of fiber miles, unserved locations, or ISPs in Louisville, Lexington, or Frankfort.

BEAD state allocations typically post as a single large award to the designated state recipient. The join does not name recipients, split the Bluegrass and the coalfields, or count fiber miles, unserved locations, or ISPs. Packet facts stop at $1,086,172,537, 1 award, KY, and 11.035. Correlation is not causation.

11.035 is not High Cost USF in Kentucky

Universal Service Fund High Cost (CFDA 32.002) sits on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars into $1,086,172,537 would invent a broader total than this 11.035 × KY cell contains. Facts available: Kentucky, CFDA 11.035, $1,086,172,537, 1 award. Recipient names, subawards, and fiber mile, unserved location, or ISP counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program, not a ranking of Kentucky outcomes. With one award, the implied mean equals $1,086,172,537. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1 is not a count of fiber miles, unserved locations, or ISPs.

Kentucky geography on the BEAD Broadband tag

KY is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Louisville, Lexington, or Frankfort can share the tag. Awards coded to Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Virginia, or Missouri stay outside $1,086,172,537 even when a metro, watershed, or service area approaches the border. A Frankfort-coded prime can still be the statewide BEAD allocation under one KY tag. The code does not convert $1.09 billion into a fiber map.

Kentucky federal spending is the all-program parent. 11.035 is one row on Kentucky programs. $1.09 billion is not the state's complete federal footprint. Open Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program in Kentucky for the filtered table, CFDA 11.035 for 11.035 without a Kentucky filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,086,172,537.

Reading 1 award under $1.09 billion

One award under $1,086,172,537 implies a mean of $1,086,172,537. With a single row, mean and total are the same number. Draws and reimbursements can lag the federal obligation by years. The figure is still an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. Treat 1 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 1 finished BEAD allocation.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $1,086,172,537 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see whether the row is a continuation, renewal, or correction. Later ingests can restate $1,086,172,537 without changing the join key of 11.035 and KY.

What the BEAD Broadband–Kentucky pair does not prove

A large 11.035 total tagged to Kentucky does not measure whether unserved locations fell, and it does not equal miles built. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $1,086,172,537 on 1 award for Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program in Kentucky.

Keep both sides of the join: Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program and Kentucky, obligations only. Do not annualize $1,086,172,537 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1 as a fiber mile, unserved location, or ISP census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a program story.

Using the BEAD Broadband–Kentucky overlay

The overlay target is the Kentucky × CFDA 11.035 table. Open Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program in Kentucky when you want the same $1,086,172,537 / 1-award cell in the site's data chrome. CFDA 11.035 drops the Kentucky filter. Kentucky federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Kentucky programs lists other catalogs beside Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Kentucky won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 11.035 plus KY. Obligations of $1,086,172,537 are not outlays. Cite Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program together with Kentucky whenever you reuse $1,086,172,537. 1 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

How much BEAD funding is obligated in Kentucky?

USAspending.gov shows $1,086,172,537 in CFDA 11.035 obligations coded to Kentucky across 1 award. The join uses the program number and Kentucky place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program and Kentucky together when citing $1,086,172,537.

Is BEAD the same as High Cost USF in Kentucky?

No. This cell is CFDA 11.035 only. Universal Service Fund High Cost (CFDA 32.002) are other catalogs. Mixing those numbers would invent a total larger than $1,086,172,537. 1 is a record count, not a fiber mile, unserved location, or ISP census.

Why is there only 1 award for this total?

1 is a USAspending award-record count, not a fiber mile, unserved location, or ISP census. The implied mean is $1,086,172,537 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $1,086,172,537 are not outlays. Keep Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment Program and Kentucky together when citing $1,086,172,537. The overlay remains the live 11.035 × KY table on USAspending.gov.

Is $1.09 billion Kentucky's full federal broadband spend?

No. $1,086,172,537 is only the 11.035 × Kentucky cell. Other CFDA programs with Kentucky place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 11.035 is not limited to Kentucky. Obligations of $1,086,172,537 are not outlays.