The weekly federal-spending brief. One email a Sunday. Free. No tracking.
The BuildoutBeta
Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

$1,566,115,000

Department of Transportation·Federal Railroad Administration

to NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION

transportationactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-07-06·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_69A36526520060AMTDC_069
Award description

THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM FUNDED THROUGH THIS AGREEMENT IS FOR AMTRAK TO MAINTAIN CONTINUED SAFE NATIONAL PASSENGER RAIL OPERATIONS, TO PURSUE ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT EFFICIENT SERVICE TO INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL RIDERSHIP, AND TO ADDRESS AND COMPLY WITH ALL SPECIFIED FEDERAL OPERATING REQUIREMENTS AND MANDATES ON REGIONS OUTSIDE THE NEC, KNOWN AS THE ?NATIONAL NETWORK? (NN). THIS INCLUDES ROUTES FOR BOTH STATE SUPPORTED AND LONG DISTANCE LINES, AND IN MANY CASES, THIS WILL INCLUDE WORK THAT PROVIDES A SHARED BENEFIT ACROSS THE NEC AND NATIONAL NETWORK.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

The Buildout's read

What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Latest funding increment on the 2025 Amtrak National Network agreement to maintain safe intercity passenger rail operations.

Sub-sectors
rail-m&onational-networkpassenger-rail
Why this matters

Amtrak serves millions of passengers annually and represents critical intercity rail infrastructure. Long-distance routes often operate at losses but provide connectivity to underserved regions. This funding ensures service continuity and supports rail as alternative transportation.

Supply-chain signal

This sustains demand for rail equipment manufacturers, maintenance contractors, and logistics suppliers across the transportation sector.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-07-07. Cost: $0.027663.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2029-01-31
Status
activein 939 days
Sources

The Buildout does not edit federal records. Any inaccuracy reflects the upstream source; it will update here when corrected there.