# Facilities & Equipment

**Agency:** Transportation  
**Account:** Facilities & Equipment  
**Source document:** FAA · p. 1  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/transportation/facilities-equipment  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 3,176.3 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 4,000.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 4,000.0 |

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

FY2027 $22.40B, FY2026 $61.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Executive Summary - Facilities and Equipment (F&E) The FY 2027 President's Budget request funds the Facilities and Equipment (F&E) account at two fiscal years, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has strategically realigned its priorities to address urgent needs for modernization of critical systems and infrastructure in the National Airspace System (NAS). This request will continue to support delivery of the Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS), bolstering investments for Major Airspace Redesign to reduce airspace congestion, sustain legacy systems and infrastructure, and invest in emerging technologies. The FAA continues to uphold fiscal responsibility and transparency in the use of appropriated funding and finds it important to recap the series of events that have taken place and shaped the FY 2027 budget request. The FAA shoulders the crucial responsibility of overseeing the infrastructure of a vast network of nearly 350 air traffic control towers (ATCT) and terminal radar approach control (TRACON) facilities, in addition to managing 21 air route traffic control centers (ARTCC) and over 600 radars. Additionally, a myriad of sensors alongside radars feed data to help controllers see aircraft on airport runways and across the skies. A telecommunications network allows controllers to communicate with pilots and other controllers. A series of automation systems help controllers make sense of all the available information as they manage the constant flow of traffic. All of these systems are beyond obsolescence and in need of modernization. On July 4th, 2025, Congress enacted the Working Families Tax Cut Act (P.L. 119-21). The Working Families Tax Cut Act provided $12.5 billion, an initial investment needed to deliver the BNATCS that will elevate safety operations and reduce sustainment of legacy systems. This significant investment allows the FAA to accelerate the transformation of its telecommunications infrastructure, bringing an order of magnitude more resources towards addressing a critical source of risk to the NAS. This includes updating FAA's network from outdated Time Division Multiplexing technology to a fully modernized Internet Protocol, upgrading legacy Voice over Internet Communication Enterprise switches, and upgrading radio communications from analog to digital. The bill funding also allows the FAA to fully replace 612 aging radars and provides funding to modernize additional surveillance capabilities. The Working Families Tax Cut Act also makes a significant dent in replacing the FAA's aging ATCT and TRACON facilities. The Working Families Tax Cut Act funding allows for modernizing some of the tools that distill and display this air traffic data as well as those that allow them to manage flights as they traverse the skies. These systems, such as the Enhanced Information Display Systems and the Terminal Flight Data Manager, will replace floppy disks and paper strips with tools befitting the modern era. Substantial additional investments must be made to ensure air traffic controllers have fully modern automation systems. Lastly, the Working Families Tax Cut Act includes investments in automated and visual weather observation systems that will increase


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*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.*