American Battle Monuments Commission

Overseas cemeteries versus a 3-award ledger

ABMC maintains U.S. military cemeteries and memorials, mostly overseas. USAspending does not count headstones. It records awards the Commission made that entered the warehouse. $1,139,248.16 through FY2026 is that obligation stock, carried on only 3 awards. Dividing $1,139,248.16 by 3 yields about $379,749 per award.

A three-row book is not a full picture of cemetery operations. Groundskeeping, locally hired staff, and host-country arrangements can sit outside USAspending awards. The $1.1 million is complete as an awarding-agency total for CGAC 074 in this extract; it is incomplete as an operating encyclopedia of every ABMC site.

What three awards omit

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the American Battle Monuments Commission are different institutions. VA national cemeteries inside the United States sit under other CGACs. Mixing those books with $1,139,248.16 would treat ABMC as if it ran the domestic VA cemetery system. It does not.

Commission staff salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. Host-nation in-kind support that never becomes a federal award also stays off this table. Outlays on the 3 instruments are unpublished.

Questions

How much has ABMC obligated on USAspending?

The American Battle Monuments Commission shows $1,139,248.16 in obligations through FY2026 across 3 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 074 is the filter. The total is not a count of overseas graves and not the VA cemetery budget. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 074 is the source for the current 3-award book.

Why are there only 3 ABMC awards?

The extract counts 3 instruments for CGAC 074. Dividing $1,139,248.16 by that count yields about $379,749 per award. Concentration in a few vehicles is the structure of this book. Much cemetery work may never appear as USAspending awards. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 074?

074 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the American Battle Monuments Commission. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/074/. VA and Defense cemetery-related awards use other codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $1.1 million fund all ABMC cemeteries?

It is the USAspending awarding-agency total for CGAC 074 through FY2026, not a site-by-site operating budget. Locally hired work and non-award costs can sit outside the 3 rows. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.