FY26 US DOT Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grants (DIIG) Program
- Award ceiling
- $500,000 – $9,000,000
- Closes
- Not stated
- Last verified
- 2026-09-07
Awards $500,000 – $9,000,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), state governments.
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FY26 US DOT Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grants (DIIG) Program awards $500,000 – $9,000,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility"…
- Program pool (total)
- $9,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $9,000,000Total available funds of $9,000,000 in the DIIG Program (Fiscal Year 2026) are to be awarded on a competitive basis.
- Award floor
- $500,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Not stated
- Deadline type
- Not stated
- Opens
- Sep 15, 2026
- Status
- Forecasted
- Eligible entities
- City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) · State governments
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- purchasing, leasing, or enhancing drone systems · contracting for services when internal expertise is lacking in the government entities · supporting program management for these systems and operations
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Source wording: “Total available funds of $9,000,000 in the DIIG Program (Fiscal Year 2026) are to be awarded on a competitive basis.”
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitAn eligible applicant must be one of the following:•A State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, or a political subdivision thereof.•A unit of local government.•A Tribal…
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What can the money be used for?
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These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
2 fieldsEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- YesThe Federal share of the total project cost may not exceed 50 percent.
What comparable notices state
39 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Consumer Protection, 39 of 50 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$300,000
- Median$1,000,000
- 75th percentile$2,000,000
A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.
Common questions
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- How much can one applicant receive?
- $500,000 – $9,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “Total available funds of $9,000,000 in the DIIG Program (Fiscal Year 2026) are to be awarded on a competitive basis.”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $9,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification), State governments.
- What can the funding be used for?
- purchasing, leasing, or enhancing drone systems, contracting for services when internal expertise is lacking in the government entities, supporting program management for these systems and operations, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds. The Federal share of the total project cost may not exceed 50 percent.
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