FY 2026 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is announcing the opportunity to apply for up to $120 million in FY 2026 Airport Infrastructure Grant funds for the FCT competitive grant program. The purpose of the program is to make annual grants available to eligible airports for airport-owned airport traffic control tower projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation's airports. The FAA will consider projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers, or acquire and install air traffic control, communications, and related equipment to be used in those towers, or construct a remote tower certified by the FAA. • Eligible applicants include public agencies, private entities, state agencies, Indian Tribes or Pueblos owning a public-use National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) airport. • The grant program is made available under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA). • The FAA will consider ATCT projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation's airports. • The grant award range is between $25,000 and $83,300,000.