Federal Communications Commission Budget In Brief

The Federal Communications Commission requests $358,286,000 in budget authority from regulatory fee collections to carry out its core statutory mission and Congressional mandates. This represents a decrease of $25,726,497 million or 6.7 percent from the FY 2016 level of $384,012,497, of which $44,168,497 was specifically made available for the necessary expenses associated with moving to a new facility or reconfiguring the existing space to significantly reduce space consumption. In FY 2017, the Commission requests the second installment of $16,866,992 for that same purpose. The Commission also requests funds to follow through on essential information technology (IT) upgrades that includes rewriting legacy applications as part of a modular “shift” to a modern, resilient cloud-based platform.