# Federal Flight Deck Officer and Crew Training

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Operations and Support  
**Source document:** Transportation Security Administration · p. 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/federal-flight-deck-officer-and-crew-training  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 25.8 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 25.8 |
| FY2027 | request | 26.4 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Federal Flight Deck Officer and Crew Training The Inflight Security Level II PPA includes funding for the FAMS and FFDO and Crew Training Level III PPAs. These PPAs both include funding for TSA programs that directly deal with in-flight countermeasures to deter and defeat terrorist or other hijacking attempts. Federal Air Marshals: The Federal Air Marshals PPA supports funding to detect, deter, and defeat criminal, terrorist, and hostile activities that Federal Flight Deck Officer and Crew Training: The FFDO and Crew Training program was created by the Arming Pilots Against Terrorism Act of 2003 (P.L. 107-296), which authorizes the deputation of qualified airline pilots to act as Federal Law Enforcement Officers to defend the flight decks of aircraft against acts of criminal violence or air piracy.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › Transportation Security Administration › Operations and Support › Other Operations and Enforcement


*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.*