American Battle Monuments Commission federal obligations

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 Outlays on the 3 instruments are unpublished.

FY2026 cutoff on a concentrated book

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $1,139,248.16 is cumulative through that horizon, not a single-year appropriation. With only 3 awards, one closeout or one new vehicle can swing the agency total. Readers should open the live table rather than treating the mean as a typical annual project.

This page does not name the 3 awards. The packet has no award IDs and no cemetery-by-cemetery split.

CGAC 074

American Battle Monuments Commission rows use awarding-agency code 074. SpendingVault’s /agencies/074/ path is keyed to it. Code 074 is an identifier, not a cemetery plot number. Defense and VA awarding agencies keep their own totals.

State tables when most work is overseas

The state table for agency 074 attributes 3 awards using USAspending location fields. Domestic vendor or headquarters tags can appear even when the mission is overseas cemeteries. A large state share is not a second ABMC cemetery system inside that state.

Open the ABMC agency page for the live $1,139,248.16 and 3-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 074. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of commemorative importance.

Overseas cemeteries, local hire, and three federal rows

ABMC maintains cemeteries and memorials, mostly overseas. Headstone counts are not the 3 USAspending awards. Groundskeeping and locally hired staff can sit outside the warehouse. The $1,139,248.16 is complete as an awarding-agency total for CGAC 074 in this extract; it is incomplete as an operating encyclopedia of every site.

VA national cemeteries inside the United States sit under other awarding-agency codes. Mixing those books with $1.1 million would treat ABMC as if it ran the domestic VA cemetery system. This page stays on CGAC 074. The state table for agency 074 can show domestic vendor tags even when the mission is overseas.

With 3 awards, one closeout or one new vehicle can swing the agency total. FY2026 is the cutoff. Refresh the ABMC agency page after warehouse updates. Staff salaries generally never appear among the 3 rows. Outlays are unpublished. The packet has no cemetery-by-cemetery split and no award IDs. Use the agency page for the live $1,139,248.16 filters.

Visitor counts at overseas cemeteries are site statistics. They are not the 3 awards. A busy commemorative year can leave $1,139,248.16 unchanged if extra work is local hire outside the warehouse. One new vehicle can dominate the mean of about $379,749 because the denominator is three. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the ABMC agency page for live CGAC 074 tables. VA domestic cemeteries remain other awarding agencies. The packet has no site-by-site split. Outlays are unpublished.

Memorial-day ceremonies and visitor services can be locally hired and never appear among the 3 awards. The $1,139,248.16 is the USAspending slice through FY2026 for CGAC 074, not a ceremony budget. One vehicle can dominate the mean of about $379,749. Use the ABMC agency page for live tables. Overseas place-of-performance, when populated, is on individual records. VA domestic cemeteries remain other CGACs. Outlays 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.