HR2482-119

What This Bill Does

The NTIA Reauthorization Act of 2025 updates the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's statute and internal structure. Section 101 reauthorizes NTIA at $57 million for fiscal year 2025 and $57 million for fiscal year 2026, changes references from Assistant Secretary to Under Secretary, creates a Deputy Under Secretary for Communications and Information, preserves pending litigation by substituting the Under Secretary as the party, allows current leadership to serve without renomination, updates executive-pay law, and requires executive-branch views presented to the FCC to be coordinated and reflective of executive-branch policy. Section 102 repeals older reporting provisions, consolidates broadband and Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund reporting into an annual public NTIA website report to Congress, and states that the changes do not expand or contract NTIA, Commerce, Secretary, or FCC authority.

Who Benefits and How

NTIA, the NTIA Under Secretary, the NTIA Deputy Under Secretary, NTIA program offices, federal spectrum users, the Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee, wireless carriers, broadband grant overseers, international telecommunications policy staff, U.S. telecommunications companies with overseas operations, the State Department, congressional telecom committees, and public users of NTIA reports benefit from clearer statutory leadership, higher authorized funding, consolidated reporting, formal spectrum-management capacity, formal international-affairs capacity, and better executive-branch coordination before the FCC and international bodies such as the International Telecommunication Union.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Commerce Department budget staff, NTIA reporting staff, the Office of Spectrum Management, the Office of International Affairs, federal agencies using spectrum, FCC coordination staff, State Department international telecom staff, NTIA web publication teams, and executive-branch policy reviewers must update titles, records, reports, pay references, litigation substitutions, annual reporting workflows, spectrum databases, interagency guidance, and international policy coordination processes.

Key Provisions

• Reauthorizes NTIA at $57 million for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
• Elevates the NTIA leader from Assistant Secretary to Under Secretary and adds a Deputy Under Secretary role.
• Requires coordinated executive-branch views on matters presented to the FCC while preserving FCC authority.
• Repeals and consolidates NTIA reporting requirements into annual website and congressional reporting.
• Establishes an Office of Spectrum Management with federal frequency assignment, allocation, database, IRAC, and spectrum-policy duties.
• Establishes an Office of International Affairs for international telecommunications policy, ITU coordination, and support for U.S. negotiations.