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b'Mari Silbey, senior director of Partnerships and Outreach for US Ignite, joins the Light Reading podcast in this episode, recorded in late December. Silbey provides an update on "Project Overcome," a program by US Ignite and the National Science Foundation to improve the reach of broadband in underserved areas.Also, she shares an update on the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, which is US Ignite\'s effort to work with partners in testing new technologies that could improve rural broadband access."For rural America, there\'s probably not one technology that will solve everyone\'s problems, and we need to experiment with how to bring them together in different ways to get the best connectivity for these folks that can\'t otherwise be connected," she said.

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