FY 2025 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is announcing the opportunity to apply for $20 million in FY 2025 Airport Infrastructure Grant funds for the FCT competitive grant program. The purpose of the FCT competitive grant program is to make annual grants available to eligible airports for airport-owned airport traffic control tower (ATCT) projects that address the aging infrastructure of the nation’s airports. The FAA will consider ATCT projects that sustain, construct, repair, improve, rehabilitate, modernize, replace, or relocate non-approach control towers. • 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 aligns with DOT’s Strategic Framework FY2022-2026 and the priorities in Executive Order 14052. • Applications should be submitted as soon as possible, but no later than September 18, 2024, 5:00 pm Eastern time. • The estimated funding for this grant is $20 million, with an award ceiling of $20 million and an award floor of $25,000.