Public wireless supply chain innovation fund — CFDA 11.038 totals

Thirty-five awards carrying $548.3M

USAspending.gov records $548.3M in obligations on assistance awards tagged 11.038. Thirty-five rows at that dollar scale is a compact file: individual lines on the hub may be large relative to formula programs. The packet has no per-award amounts. Do not divide $548.3M by 35 and publish the quotient as a typical innovation-fund grant. Amount-sort on the 35-row table is the check.

No fiscal year is attached. The long official title describes a public wireless supply-chain innovation fund grant program aimed at expanding testing and evaluation. That purpose language is the listing name, not a lab-capacity statistic in this extract. Equipment inventories, Open RAN test results, and vendor-diversity scores are not in the packet. This guide will not invent them.

If a research consortium cites a different wireless-innovation total, match the CFDA number before adding that citation to $548.3M. Other spectrum or broadband assistance listings are other catalog rows. SpendingVault’s figure is 11.038 only. Keep the obligation definition when comparing this line to a press note about 5G testing.

30 recipients on a short wireless-grant file

Thirty recipients hold 35 awards — close to one award per identifier, with room for a few repeats. The packet does not prove that pattern and does not classify recipients as universities, labs, or companies. Recipient count is distinct identifiers, not a count of test sites or radios deployed.

A 30-name list is short enough to read on the program hub. Repeat appearance means the same identifier received more than one recorded award. It does not grade technical performance. Subawards to equipment vendors, if they exist, are not in this packet and are not inferred from the 35 assistance rows.

14 states on the 11.038 extract

The file counts 14 states. That is a narrow footprint for a national-sounding innovation listing. The packet does not name the 14 or split the $548.3M among them. Lab geography in USAspending follows recorded location fields, which may be a headquarters state rather than every test range. This packet does not say which field fed the count.

Fourteen states is a coverage statistic, not a map of wireless markets. Missing states are not listed, so their absence is not explained here. Use the 35-row table for award-level geography. Do not read 14 as a claim that testing happened only in those jurisdictions in the physical sense.

Innovation-fund obligations are not testbed outlays

Spectrum auctions, broadband-deployment grants, and private R&D budgets are different ledgers. CFDA 11.038’s $548.3M is USAspending assistance-award obligations on this testing-and-evaluation listing. Mixing those other sources into $548.3M would build a homemade “all wireless innovation” total the packet does not support.

Outlays are payments. Obligations are commitments. Equipment purchases can lag the obligation date. This extract does not report outlays or devices certified. Cite $548.3M as recorded commitments on 35 awards. Do not describe the sum as money already sitting in lab accounts.

Keeping 11.038 on its own catalog row

Other commerce or technology listings can sit near this one on the all-programs index because their obligation totals occupy a similar band. Dollar proximity is not a shared testbed. Do not add this $548.3M to a different CFDA. Match the assistance-listing number on any consortium award letter before comparing dollars.

Opening the 11.038 table

The program page for this wireless innovation-fund listing holds the 35 awards and 30 recipients behind $548.3M. Filter by location if a state is the question; the 14-state count will not name them. Agency pages are a different USAspending cut; this packet does not name the awarding agency, so the $548.3M stays on the CFDA card. The all-programs index is for scale comparison, not for merging broadband-catalog totals. Lab-capacity slide decks remain a different file than this obligation rollup. Vendor-diversity scorecards remain a different dataset than this $548.3M obligation rollup.

Questions

How much is obligated under CFDA 11.038?

PUBLIC WIRELESS SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATION FUND GRANT PROGRAM – EXPANDING TESTING AND EVALUATION shows $548.3M in USAspending.gov obligations in SpendingVault’s extract. The figure is a commitment total, not outlays and not a count of testbeds or radios. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 11.038 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

How many wireless innovation-fund awards are in the extract?

The file lists 35 awards and 30 recipients. Award count is a row count; recipient count is distinct identifiers. The packet does not classify those recipients as labs, universities, or companies. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 11.038 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Which states appear on the 11.038 listing?

The extract counts 14 states but does not name them or split the $548.3M by state. Location follows USAspending’s recorded fields. Use the 35-row table for award-level geography. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 11.038 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Is $548.3M the amount already spent on wireless testing?

No. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. The $548.3M on CFDA 11.038 is the obligation total. Equipment draws and test results are not in this packet. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 11.038 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.