Acting Director
Virginia Office of Broadband
Chandler Vaughan is the Acting Director in the Virginia Office of Broadband. In the Office of Broadband, Chandler leads development under plans and programs for the $1.5 billion investment in both broadband deployment and broadband adoption programs under the BEAD Program. Before BEAD, Chandler played a key role in scaling a $50 million dollar broadband expansion program to accommodate a $700 million investment of American Rescue Plan Act funding in 2021. During his time in the Virginia Broadband Office, over 210,000 homes and business have received broadband access through network construction, with tens of thousands more homes included in projects that are already underway.