Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program — CFDA 11.035

What $41.60 billion on 60 awards means

Assistance listing 11.035 is titled BROADBAND EQUITY, ACCESS, AND DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $41,601,000,000.59. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $41,601,000,000.59 as construction cash already spent mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

60 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $41,601,000,000.59 by 60 produces a mean near $693 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical last-mile project and not a cost per passing. BEAD dollars often sit on state-level allocation actions, which is why 60 records can carry $41,601,000,000.59.

The extract also lists 60 recipients—matching the 60-award count—and 56 states. Matching awards and recipients is a file fact for CFDA 11.035 in this packet. It is not a count of internet service providers selected for subgrants.

60 awards, 60 recipients, 56 states

CFDA 11.035 lists 60 awards, 60 recipients, and 56 states. Recipient count is organizational recipients stored on assistance rows, typically eligible entities in the file, not a census of unserved locations. 60 is not a headcount of ISPs. The 56-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every census block.

Because awards and recipients match at 60, many rows look like one action per organizational recipient. Extra modifications could later lift the award count without adding recipients. The $41,601,000,000.59 total still sits on those 60 award rows. Cite the matching 60-60 counts together when the BEAD figure is reused.

Obligations versus broadband outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $41,601,000,000.59 figure for CFDA 11.035 can include multi-year allocation commitments that will disburse later. NTIA BEAD operational dashboards and a single fiscal year’s broadband appropriation are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing—especially a miles-deployed figure—the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 11.035 program page. Do not stretch 60 awards into a construction census.

What the 11.035 tables omit

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a fabric map, not a subgrant register, and not a speed-test file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $41,601,000,000.59. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 60 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 states is a coding field. A statewide eligible entity coded to one cell can dominate geography while later subgrants sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 11.035

A complete citation is $41,601,000,000.59 in obligations for CFDA 11.035, covering 60 awards, 60 recipients, and 56 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is concentration rather than dollars, lead with 60 awards and 60 recipients, then the dollar total.

Start with the BEAD program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a subgrant-application instruction.

A worked reading of the 11.035 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $41,601,000,000.59, 60 awards, 60 recipients, and 56 states under CFDA 11.035. The mean near $693 million is a quotient from 60 records, not a cost per passing. If a later USAspending.gov file adds one eligible entity, awards and recipients can move together. If modifications proliferate, 60 awards can rise while 60 recipients stay put and the dollar book stays close to $41,601,000,000.59.

Nothing in the extract splits planning from deployment, or fiber from other technologies. Those cuts live in NTIA publications. Treat CFDA 11.035 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the BEAD program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite the matching 60-award and 60-recipient counts next to the dollars so concentration is visible beside 56 states.

Readers comparing CFDA 11.035 across extracts should keep the matching 60-award and 60-recipient counts in the same sentence as $41,601,000,000.59. Dropping either volume fact turns the obligation total into a floating headline. SpendingVault’s program hub is the place to verify that the current file still carries those four packet facts across 56 states.

Questions

How much is obligated under the BEAD broadband program?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $41,601,000,000.59 in obligations for CFDA 11.035, Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of fiber miles. The same extract lists 60 awards, 60 recipients, and 56 states.

Why do BEAD awards and recipients both equal 60?

In this extract, CFDA 11.035 stores 60 awards and 60 organizational recipients. Those matching counts are file statistics, consistent with one large action per eligible entity, not a census of ISPs or locations. The $41,601,000,000.59 total still sits on those 60 award rows across 56 states.

Does the BEAD total include construction already paid?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $41,601,000,000.59 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 60-award count is a record tally, not a count of miles built. Cite CFDA 11.035 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 11.035?

The extract codes 56 states for BEAD. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every unserved location. Those rows still sit under the $41,601,000,000.59 obligation total and the 60-recipient count. Cite CFDA 11.035 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.