Erin Loughney serves as Senior Manager of Pilot Development at Widelity, Inc., where she supports the company’s Growth Strategy efforts through capture management, pipeline development, and the cultivation of government and public-sector opportunities. In this role, she helps identify and shape new lines of business, drawing on her project management experience across complex funding and infrastructure programs.   With more than seven years of experience at the intersection of federal funding, compliance, and telecommunications, Erin brings a strong operational and administrative perspective to program strategy. Her work has included FCC Broadcast Repack and Supply Chain Reimbursement Program efforts, C-Band funding requests, and numerous funding applications. While leading Widelity’s Client Management and Vendor Relations team, she helped clients recoup nearly $1 billion in reimbursements and built reporting and compliance processes that kept projects moving. She also founded and scaled Widelity’s Client Management Team and, in 2025, oversaw successful BEAD application work with a 100% success rate across four states and territories.   Before joining Widelity, Erin held roles spanning environmental science, policy research, program management, executive support, and standards development. The through-line in her career has been a focus on big, complex problems and the administrative discipline required to make them run smoothly for the people doing the work on the ground.   A native of Appalachia, Erin has made New England her home base for most of her adult life. She holds an MS in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the MESPOM Erasmus Mundus Consortium and a BA in Spanish from Smith College. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, photography, time with friends, family, and her animals, and taking advantage of New England’s seasons through paddleboarding, snowshoeing, and long walks in the woods.