Opportunity Information: Apply for NG AWM 25 001
The FAA Aviation Maintenance Technical Workers Workforce Development Grant Program (FY 2025) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity run by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration. Its core focus is workforce: growing the pipeline of aviation maintenance technicians and mechanics and helping people move into aviation maintenance careers across the United States and U.S. territories. A notable set-aside is that 20 percent of the total funding awarded under this program will be used to carry out the Willa Brown Aviation Education Program, which aligns with the broader emphasis on education, access, and building long-term career pathways.
The program is designed to address workforce needs by funding projects that expose students and jobseekers to aviation maintenance, provide practical training experiences, and remove barriers to entry. The FAA frames this as both an education and recruitment effort: creating meaningful educational experiences that spark interest early (including at the high school level) and supporting structured transitions into the aviation maintenance workforce. It also explicitly includes initiatives that help members and veterans of the U.S. armed forces shift into civilian aviation maintenance careers, recognizing that military training and experience can be a strong foundation for these jobs when paired with the right credentialing and pathway support.
Fundable projects fall into several broad categories. First, applicants can propose creating and delivering aviation maintenance programs or curricula for high school, secondary school, and higher education students, including the purchase and operation of equipment needed to teach that curriculum. Second, the program supports building or strengthening work-based learning and financial support pathways, such as registered apprenticeships, internships, or scholarship programs for people pursuing aviation maintenance employment. Third, it funds efforts that directly support career transitions into aviation maintenance, including transition support tailored to service members and veterans. Fourth, it supports outreach and awareness campaigns about aviation maintenance careers, especially outreach that reaches populations underrepresented in aviation. Finally, the FAA leaves room for other projects that can credibly demonstrate they will enhance or expand the aviation maintenance technical workforce, which gives applicants flexibility as long as the workforce development impact is clear.
Eligibility is intentionally broad across entities that can realistically train, recruit, or place aviation maintenance workers. Eligible applicants include certified repair stations that provide training under relevant sections of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (including parts 21, 121, 135, 145, or 147), labor organizations representing aviation maintenance workers, accredited institutions of higher education, postsecondary vocational institutions, and high schools or secondary schools. Eligible applicants also include aviation-related nonprofit organizations that are 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, as well as state, local, territorial, or Tribal governmental entities. This mix allows proposals led by training providers, education systems, labor groups, nonprofits, and public agencies, including partnerships among them.
From the published opportunity details, the funding opportunity title is "FAA Aviation Maintenance Technical Workers Workforce Development Grant Program" with opportunity number "NG AWM 25 001." It is a grant (not a contract), categorized under transportation, with CFDA number 20.112. The application closing date listed is February 5, 2025. The maximum award amount (ceiling) is $1,000,000, and the FAA anticipates making about 9 awards. The opportunity was created on January 6, 2025, indicating a relatively short runway for applicants to assemble partners, design a workforce development approach, and submit a competitive package before the deadline.
Overall, this program is aimed at practical, outcomes-oriented workforce development: training content, hands-on equipment, structured pathways like apprenticeships and internships, direct transition support into jobs, and outreach that expands who knows about and can access aviation maintenance careers. Applicants that can show a clear line from funded activities to an expanded, better-prepared aviation maintenance workforce, including measurable education and placement outcomes, fit the intent of the opportunity well.Apply for NG AWM 25 001
- The DOT Federal Aviation Administration in the transportation sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FAA Aviation Maintenance Technical Workers Workforce Development Grant Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.112.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-01-06.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-02-05. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 9 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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