Federal agency
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
$6.3 Billion committed in FY2025
- Mission
- The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America's communications law and regulations.
- Sub-agencies
- 1 bureaus and offices
- Website
- https://www.fcc.gov/ ↗
- Agency code
- 027
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how the money leaves FCC.
Direct payments
$6.3B
99%
Contracts
$63.1M
<1%
Where the money goes
Top destinations of FCC's committed dollars. Direct payments to individuals (Medicare, Social Security, …) are aggregated by the government, so they show as the federal program rather than a named recipient.
What they buy
Top products and services FCC buys under contract, by dollars committed.
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Software as a Service
$22.3M
It and Telecom - Service Delivery Support Services: Itsm, Operations Center, Project/PM (Labor)
$19.6M
Health R&D Services; Health Care - Other; Basic Research
$13.3M
It and Telecom - Platform Products: Database, Mainframe, Middleware (HW, Perpetual License Software)
$11.5M
Support- Management: Financial
$8.6M
It and Telecom - Business Application Software (Perpetual License Software)
$6.8M
It and Telecom - Data Center as a Service
$5.1M
It and Telecom - Business Application/Application Development Support Services (Labor)
$4.5M
It and Telecom - Network Support Services (Labor)
$3.9M
It and Telecom - Application Development Software (Perpetual License Software)
$3.2M
Awards
The largest individual awards issued by FCC.
Competition
How competitively FCC's contract dollars were awarded. 'Not available' is legitimate sole-source (a single source — utilities, proprietary parts); 'not competed' is the flag worth a second look.
Competed
$67.8M
107%
Not available for competition
$4.2M
7%
Contract set-asides
Contract dollars FCC reserved before bidding for a specific kind of firm — small business, 8(a), service-disabled-veteran, women-owned, HUBZone — versus full and open competition.
Small business
$7.3M
12%
8(a)
$3.1M
5%
Service-disabled veteran
$4.1M
7%
Where it lands
Top states by place of performance — where FCC's work is done or its money lands, by dollars committed.
Nebraska
$479.7M
Colorado
$445.9M
By fiscal year
Committed dollars grew 6,562% across FY2018–FY2025. FCC's committed dollars per fiscal year, FY2018–FY2026.
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed, not paid
Every figure is money this agency committed — legally promised by signing a contract or awarding a grant — counted in the year each action happened, not cash out the door.
- From FY2018 on
Agency pages start at fiscal year 2018, the first year of complete federal-assistance reporting. Earlier years aren't shown rather than shown wrong.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- Benefits show as programs
Medicare, Social Security, and other direct payments to individuals are aggregated by the government, so under Where the money goes they appear as the program, not a named recipient.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
