FCC’s Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Estimates Submitted to Congress

The Federal Communications Commission is requesting a budget of $359,299,000 to carry out the FCC’s functions and meet the expectations of Congress.

The FCC’s FY 2014 budget submission includes requests for funding to: (1) support Commissionwide information technology needs through extending the enterprise storage; (2) support for reform of the Universal Service Fund Support Program; (3) space consolidation and facilities improvement that will reduce lease arrangements that are not cost effective and improve efficiencies; (4) create a Do-Not-Call registry for telephone numbers used by Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs); (5) provide resources for mission-critical systems to ensure that they are operational during a Continuity of Operations (COOP) event; and (6) provide contract funding to support mandatory audits for the Office of the Inspector General.

In furtherance of these objectives and the FCC’s mission, the FY 2014 budget request will be used to support the following Strategic Goals:

• Strategic Goal 1: Connect America: Maximize Americans’ access to – and the adoption of—affordable fixed and mobile broadband where they live, work, and travel.
• Strategic Goal 2: Maximize Benefits of Spectrum: Maximize the overall benefits of spectrum for the United States.
• Strategic Goal 3: Protect and Empower Consumers: Empower consumers by ensuring that they have the tools and information they need to make informed choices; protect consumers from harm in the communications market.
• Strategic Goal 4: Promote Innovation, Investment, and America’s Global Competitiveness: Promote innovation in a manner that improves the nation’s ability to compete in the global economy, creating a virtuous circle that results in more investment and in turn enables additional innovation.
• Strategic Goal 5: Promote Competition: Ensure a competitive market for communications and media services to foster innovation, investment, and job creation and to ensure consumers have meaningful choice in affordable
• services.
• Strategic Goal 6: Public Safety and Homeland Security: Promote the availability of reliable, interoperable, redundant, rapidly restorable critical communications infrastructures that are supportive of all required services.
• Strategic Goal 7: Advance Key National Purposes: Through international and national interagency efforts, advance the use of broadband for key national purposes.
• Strategic Goal 8: Operational Excellence: Make the FCC a model for excellence in government by effectively managing the Commission’s human, information, and financial resources; by making decisions based on sound data and analyses; and by maintaining a commitment to transparent and responsive processes that encourage public involvement and best serve the public interest.