{"id":36177,"date":"2025-12-19T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T01:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/?p=36177"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:38:00","slug":"cyberpilot-pa-participation-and-wave-1-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/?p=36177","title":{"rendered":"CyberPilot &#8211; PA Participation and Wave 1 Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 19, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attached: <a href=\"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PA-Cybersecurity-Applicants-as-of-Dec-19-2025.xlsx\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PA-Cybersecurity-Applicants-as-of-Dec-19-2025.xlsx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, USAC released the first wave of funding commitment decision letters for the FCC\u2019s one-time $200 million CyberPilot Initiative (CPP) and late yesterday, they released the new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/opendata.usac.org\/Other-USAC-Programs\/Cybersecurity-Pilot-FCC-Form-471\/qr48-4kx4\/data_preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cybersecurity Pilot dataset<\/a>.&nbsp; Until now, we have not had any visibility which schools and libraries submitted CPP Form 471s or what was requested.&nbsp; Below is a summary of the nationwide and PA stats, and attached is a file containing all PA FRN Line Item data and a Wave 1 tab.&nbsp; Note:&nbsp; I have hidden some extraneous columns as well as added a few columns to subtotal funding requested.&nbsp; Also, you\u2019ll notice the rows are by FRN Line Item, not FRN, in order to capture the granular products\/services and associated costs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nationwide:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>614 participants filed CPP Form 471s, out of the original 690 entities selected to participate.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A total of $157.6 million was requested out of the $200 million available.\u00a0 I do not believe there will be another application window to select additional participants or allow entities to seek additional funding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>$18.8 million was committed in Wave 1 to 140 applicants.\u00a0 222 FRNs were funded.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pennsylvania:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>50 schools and libraries submitted CPP Form 471s, out of the original 54 entities selected to participate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total requested amount (post discount) was $6,646,267.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All participants have a 90% discount.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>57 FRN Line Items used the PA PEPPM Contract as their procurement method.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wave 1 funding committed was $1,039,082 for 35 FRN Line Items and 13 entities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, the new Form 488 will be released that will enable participants to seek post commitment changes, such as changing services, invoicing method, service start dates, etc.&nbsp; In addition, the CPP BEAR Form will be released soon as well.&nbsp; Stay tuned for additional information on these forms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you were not included in Wave 1, it simply means that your application is still in PIA review.&nbsp; If you receive PIA inquiries, be sure to respond promptly so your application can continue to be processed.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the CPP-available data does not show granular FRN Statuses like we have with the E-rate data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, please let me know.&nbsp; If you know of anyone in your school or library that would like to be added to this CPP-specific listserve, please send me their name, title, e-mail and entity name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Julie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie Tritt Schell<br>PA E-rate Team<br>jtschell@comcast.net<br>www.e-ratepa.org<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=eratepenn\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 19, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listserve_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}