ACRP
03 July 2026
Buy America Requirements for Federally Obligated Airports
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Job Acts (IIJA) included the Build America, Buy America (BABA) Act that established new conditions for spending federal money on infrastructure. BABA stipulates that manufactured products and construction materials must be produced in the United States when federal funds are used to finance infrastructure projects. BABA expands previous legislation that required airfield infrastructure projects that used federal money, mostly Airport Improvement Program grants, to use products and materials produced domestically. However, the new BABA makes federal funds available for airport terminal projects beyond runway or taxiway projects.
