The FY2027 President's Budget requests $12.4M for NTIA-29 Advanced Communications Research, within Commerce's Salaries and Expenses account. That is down 3.8% on the FY2026 figure of $12.9M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2026–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | enacted | $12.9M |
| FY2027 | request | $12.4M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Commerce discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Commerce's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Funds the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, NTIA's research and engineering laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, which conducts telecommunications research that informs spectrum policy and analyzes how spectrum-dependent systems like radars and cellphones interact.
Extracted from National Telecommunications and Information Administration, p. 13. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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