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Tech Boosts Iowa 911 Backup Signals
The Iowa Communications Network (ICN) has upgraded its wireless backup system at the Iowa National Guard’s Joint Forces Headquarters...
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 60 min read
Iowa Broadband Infrastructure
ICN Enhances Iowa Broadband Infrastructure with 100G Chicago Route
Farmed Sourced News
Jun 10 min read
Whose Farm or Ranch?
The seriousness of development threat to farms and ranches.
Farmed Sourced News
Apr 140 min read
Data Centers Going Rural
Nearly 40% of Americans now live within 5 miles of a data center.
Farmed Sourced News
Apr 130 min read
Energy Infrastructure and the Defense Industrial Base
Can the energy infrastructure serving the U.S. defense industrial base sustain production under mobilization?
Farmed Sourced News
Mar 170 min read
Iowa Fiber Upgrades
ICN Completes Fiber Upgrades Across Northern Iowa for Enhanced Redundancy
Farmed Sourced News
Feb 90 min read
Rural Broadband Iowa
Notice of Funding Availability: BEAD Final Intent to Award
Farmed Sourced News
Jan 90 min read
'Data Center Alley' Raises Infrastructure Concerns
The concentration of more than 143 data centers in Virginia's Loudoun County is creating unprecedented demands on the nation's power grid and raising questions about infrastructure resilience.
Farmed Sourced News
Sep 16, 20250 min read
Securing the Backbone of Artificial Intelligence
The cybersecurity of AI data centers is becoming increasingly important.
Farmed Sourced News
Sep 4, 20250 min read
Misplaced Data
Data center development has run amok. The area in Northern Virginia known as "Data Center Alley," for example, is the largest cluster of data centers in the world. That's a problem.
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 8, 20250 min read
ARA Wireless Living Lab for Rural Broadband and Applications
Addressing the broadband gap between rural and urban regions requires rural-focused wireless research and innovation.
R.N.D.I. Sourced News
May 28, 20250 min read
R.N.D.I. Partner Video
Open and watch the 30-second RNDI video.
Farmed Sourced News
Mar 3, 20250 min read
DHS: AI in Critical Infrastructure
A set of recommendations for the safe and secure development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in critical infrastructure from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Farmed Sourced News
Nov 14, 20240 min read
Investing in Rural America
Read how the U.S. Department of Transportation implemented billions of dollars in 2004 to build rural infrastructure.
Farmed Sourced News
Jul 1, 20240 min read
Closing the Digital and Economic Divides in Rural America
America [still] has a rural broadband problem. Still relevant 8 years following this 2018 Brookings Institution report.
Farmed Sourced News
Aug 30, 20180 min read
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