Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the foundation states are built upon. It impacts everything from economic development and global competitiveness to our quality of life, safety, environment, and resiliency. Governors have taken action to enhance infrastructure, including creating new and increasing existing funding streams, advancing public-private partnerships, addressing regulatory delays, improving transparency, and promoting innovation.
NGA Infrastructure Resource Pages
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NGA Wraps Up Third Broadband Leaders Workshop in Kansas
NGA hosted its third Broadband Leaders Workshop, June 3-5, in Overland Park, Kansas. Over 60 broadband leaders from around 40 states and territories came together with federal officials, internet service ...
State and Local Government Leaders Urge Congress to Preserve the State and Local Cyber Security Grant Program
The Honorable Patty MurrayChairSenate Committee on AppropriationsCapitol Building S-146AWashington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Susan CollinsVice ChairSenate Committee on AppropriationsCapitol Building S-128Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Tom ColeChairHouse Committee on AppropriationsCapitol ...
State Resource Center: Innovative Infrastructure Funding, Financing and Delivery
Governors across the country are exploring the use of alternative infrastructure delivery models and innovative funding and financing approaches to deploy a wide range of infrastructure projects in their states ...
Governors Implement: On the Road to Infrastructure in Kansas (Part II)
Recently, the Kansas Infrastructure Hub hosted its second convening for state, local and private sector partners (details from the first convening can be found here.) Attendees gathered in Salina, Kansas ...
Northeast Regional Project Delivery Workshop
On Thursday, April 4 and Friday, April 5, 2024, NGA held its Northeast Regional Project Delivery Workshop in Philadelphia. This convening, which was hosted in partnership with Pennsylvania Governor Josh ...
NGA Convenes Network of Governors’ Infrastructure Implementation Coordinators
Fresh off NGA’s 2024 Winter Meeting, the organization pulled together the latest in a series of workshops for Governors’ Infrastructure Implementation Coordinators. Marking two years since the first in-person meeting ...
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IIJA Implementation Resources
As Governors lead on implementing the historic bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the National Governors Association will be continuing to provide timely and actionable resources, create opportunities for Governors and their staff to convene and collaborate, and maintain relationships with critical federal, state, local, and private sector stakeholders.
Principles for National Infrastructure Investment
Infrastructure is the foundation states are built upon. It impacts everything from economic development and global competitiveness, to our quality of life, safety, environment and resiliency. Governors have taken action to enhance infrastructure, including creating new and increasing existing funding streams, advancing public private partnerships, addressing regulatory delays, improving transparency and promoting innovation.
Meet the Team
- Thomas Curtin, Program Director
- Richard Lukas, Legislative Director
- Glenn Grimshaw, Senior Policy Analyst
- Alexis Howard, Legislative Associate
- Henry Ashley, Policy Coordinator
Initiatives
Infrastructure: Foundation For Success was the 2019-2020 Chair’s Initiative of Gov. Larry Hogan.
Infrastructure Library
Strategies to Address Engineering Workforce Challenges
Public and private sector practitioners highlight best practices to meet generational infrastructure moment. (Download) Passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in late 2021 was a ...
Energy and Infrastructure Permitting
Governors are leading efforts to overcome multiple siting, permitting, and regulatory challenges that pose significant barriers to effective energy and infrastructure deployment ...
Governors’ Actions to Accelerate Infrastructure Projects – 2023 NGA Annual Meeting
Governors are working together across party lines and state lines on common sense solutions to safely speed up the process to deliver energy and infrastructure benefits nationwide. The enactment of ...
Infrastructure Project Permitting Workshop
Improving the permitting process for the delivery of infrastructure projects has come to the fore of late, particularly in the context of recent generational infrastructure investments like the bipartisan Infrastructure ...
Expanding the Broadband Workforce: How Three States are Preparing for Equitable Broadband Deployment
The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is providing states with unprecedented amounts of funding to deploy broadband infrastructure, improve affordability and ensure meaningful adoption in communities. Governors are ...
State and Local Government Organizations urge Passage of the railway safety act of 2023
The Honorable Chuck SchumerMajority LeaderUnited States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Republican LeaderUnited States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senate Leaders: On behalf of the National Governors ...
Governors Announce Bipartisan Permitting Vision to Accelerate Project Delivery
WASHINGTON – Today, National Governors Association (NGA) Vice Chair Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards released the following statement as Co-Chairs of the Energy and Infrastructure ...
Infrastructure Coordinator Quarterly Workshop
From May 16 to 18, 2023, NGA hosted its Quarterly Infrastructure Coordinator Workshop in Washington D.C. With $37 billion in funding for resilience programs in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs ...
Broadband Leaders Workshop
On Monday, April 24 to Wednesday, April 26, NGA convened, in partnership with Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo’s Office of Science Innovation and Technology, its Broadband Leaders Workshop in Las Vegas ...
American Infrastructure Investment Forum
As infrastructure funding begins to flow from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Governors look to combine federal funds with existing and new state and territorial capital ...
Strategies For Deploying Surface Transportation Funds For Workforce Development And Postsecondary Education
As states implement the IIJA, it will be critical that they ensure workers are equipped to participate successfully in the highway construction workforce and that education partners and the public ...
Governors Highlight Record Infrastructure Investment in State of the State Addresses
As infrastructure funds begin to flow from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, and funds continue to ...
