Kinkoph Named Acting NTIA Administrator
The Commerce Department confirmed Monday it designated Doug Kinkoph as acting NTIA administrator. Former acting Administrator Diane Rinaldo left NTIA last week, just seven months after David Redl's own abrupt exit as agency head (see 1912160049). NTIA described Kinkoph's temporary…
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role as "performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information." Kinkoph had been Rinaldo's deputy and was delegated to oversee wireless issues while she ran the agency (see 1905140063). Rinaldo had recused herself from handling spectrum deployment issues because her husband works as a lobbyist for T-Mobile.