NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Funds ocean, weather, climate, and coastal research that advances environmental science and public resilience.

NOAA is a US federal agency within the Department of Commerce. It funds ocean, atmospheric, fisheries, coastal, and climate work through line offices including NMFS, NOS, OAR, NWS, NESDIS, and OMAO. The enacted FY2026 appropriation was $6.6B, with OAR and Sea Grant retained after the administration proposed deeper cuts.

Its grant and cooperative-agreement portfolio includes coastal management, Sea Grant, broad agency announcements for fisheries and agency-wide research, and SBIR activity. The record points to programs such as the NOAA NMFS Broad Agency Announcement, the NOAA-wide Broad Agency Announcement, NOAA National Sea Grant College Program competitive grants, and NOAA Office for Coastal Management grants, with discretionary assistance routed through grants.gov and eRA Production.

NOAA is best understood as a national science and service agency that funds applied research and operational transition work. The agency's structure lets it back university partnerships, coastal resilience, climate research, and small-business technology development at scale, while the FY2026 budget cycle showed how exposed those programs can be to presidential and congressional spending choices.