# Innovation Fund Grants

**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-grants  

> **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

The Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund is a ten-year program that will advance the development and deployment of exportable U.S.-based AI technology for a trusted 6G stack through grants awarded on a competitive basis. Base Program The NTIA will award up to a total of $573 million in grants under the program, following a rescission of $850 million pursuant to the WFTC Act. Grant awardees may include private sector, trade groups, civil society, non-profits, and academia to facilitate the development and deployment of exportable, open, secure and interoperable AI-native Radio Access Networks (RAN).


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


*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.*