# Administrative Law Judges

**Agency:** NTSB  
**Account:** Administrative Law Judges  
**Source document:** NTSB · p. 19  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/ntsb/administrative-law-judges  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 3.1 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 3.1 |
| FY2027 | request | 3.6 |

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


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

FY2027 $200.0M, FY2026 $100.0M. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Serves as the court of appeals for airmen, air carriers, mariners, and others, with administrative law judges hearing and issuing initial decisions on appeals of FAA aviation enforcement actions and US Coast Guard certificate actions.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › NTSB › NTSB › Administrative Law Judges


*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.*