# Innovation Fund Admin

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** National Telecommunications and Information Administration  
**Source document:** National Telecommunications and Information Administration · p. 144  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/innovation-fund-admin  

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


## 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

In FY 2026, NTIA will monitor previously awarded grants through post-award oversight and prepare for additional grant awards. In FY 2027, NTIA will continue to perform post-award oversight responsibilities. NTIA will award the remaining available grant funds in FY 2027 under a fourth Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to accelerate the development and deployment of an AI-Native network fabric for RAN. NTIA will also provide technical assistance to help recipients navigate through technical challenges and federal grants administration requirements.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › National Telecommunications and Information Administration › National Telecommunications and Information Administration › Innovation Fund Admin


*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.*