FY 2027 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

Closed Posted

Opportunity number
DOT-FAA-26-0117-002
Agency
Applications due
Award size
$25,000 to $55,000,000

Opportunity facts

Assistance listings
Funding instrument
Grant
Category
  • Transportation
Eligible applicants
  • Special District Governments
  • County Governments
  • Other
  • State Governments
  • City/Township Governments
Points of contact
Full announcement

Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

Written by GovTribe AI ·

The Federal Aviation Administration is soliciting applications for up to $100 million in FY 2027 Airport Infrastructure Grant funds for airport-owned air traffic control tower projects under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, with an application due date of October 19, 2026. Eligible applicants are airport sponsors approved in the FAA's Contract Tower Program or Contract Tower Cost Share Program and normally eligible for Airport Improvement Program competitive grants, including public agencies, private entities, state agencies, Indian tribes or pueblos owning public-use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) airports, the Secretary of the Interior for Midway Island, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.

The program funds projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers; acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment; or construct FAA-certified remote towers including associated equipment. Work is performed at eligible airport locations nationwide.

Grant awards are lump-sum and released upon reimbursement application. Periods of performance extend a maximum of four years from grant award execution, though most projects complete within two to three years. Preapplication coordination is required. Environmental impact assessment or statement is required, and the program is subject to intergovernmental review under Executive Order 12372. Grant recipients must maintain current airport layout plans ordinarily for 20 years and retain accounting records for three years after final expenditure report submission. Periodic reporting on project bidding, contracting, work commencement, and completion is required. The Assistance Listing number is 20.117.

Synopsis

The Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces the opportunity to apply for up to $100 million in FY 2027 Airport Infrastructure Grant funds for the FCT competitive grant program, made available under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA), Pub. L. 117-58. The purpose of the FCT competitive grant program is to make annual grants available to eligible airports for airport-owned airport traffic control tower (ATCT) projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation's airports. The FAA will consider ATCT projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers; or acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment to be used in those towers; or construct a remote tower certified by the FAA including acquisition and installation of air traffic control, communications, or related equipment.


Eligibility

See the link to the FY 2027 NOFO for eligibility information. Eligible applicants are those airport sponsors approved in the FAA's Contract Tower Program or Contract Tower Cost Share Program as defined in 49 U.S.C. § 47124, and normally eligible for Airport Improvement Program (AIP) competitive grants as defined in 49 U.S.C. § 47115. This includes a public agency, private entity, state agency, Indian Tribe or Pueblo owning a public-use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) airport, the Secretary of the Interior for Midway Island airport, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. For additional eligibility categories and further details on each eligible applicant category, see AIP Handbook Table 2-1 in the following weblink: https://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/aip_handbook/media/AIP-Handbook-Order-5100-38D-Chg1.pdf. For more information on the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS), visit: https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias

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