# Facilities Management and

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Facilities Management and Construction  
**Source document:** National Telecommunications and Information Administration · p. 78  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/facilities-management-and  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 1.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 1.0 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The TMFS and RQZ, located north of Boulder, Colorado, supports the fundamental research activities of ITS/NTIA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST), and the U.S. Geological Survey. The property, comprised of over 1,700 acres with 7 buildings, managed by NTIA, encompassing over 10,000 square feet to support research and auxiliary functions, was originally leased by the Boulder laboratories in 1954 for the purpose of performing radio experiments. The site was subsequently purchased by the federal government in 1961. Essential features of the site include homogeneous underlying soils; special purpose laboratory facilities; buried cabling and utilities to minimize radiated noise and interference; and radio quiet zone protection by both federal and State laws from strong, external signals. These unique characteristics make the site ideal for sensitive radio or electromagnetic experiments, as well as for applications needing low vibration and unobstructed views of the sky. Additionally, the measurements collected at the site provide valuable historical data against which new measurements may be compared.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › National Telecommunications and Information Administration › Facilities Management and Construction › Facilities Management and


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*