NOAA Cooperative Institutes — CFDA 11.432

Cooperative-institute obligations at $1.80 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,801,324,209.32 in obligations under CFDA 11.432. Twenty-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $66.72 million per award — far larger than a typical investigator grant and consistent with multi-year institute agreements. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical lab budget or a per-scientist cost.

The assistance-listing title is NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) COOPERATIVE INSTITUTES. CFDA 11.432 is the identifier. Other NOAA research or Sea Grant listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.80 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined ocean-research total this packet does not contain.

16 recipients across 16 states

Sixteen recipients share 27 awards, or about 1.7 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1.80 billion evenly would assign about $112.58 million per recipient. That pattern is a small institute roster carrying very large agreements. The packet does not list the 16. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of scientists or ships.

Sixteen states in the geographic count match the recipient count one-for-one at the state grain. Cooperative-institute dollars follow where those institutes are coded, not a 50-state formula. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Twenty-seven awards, 16 recipients, and 16 states is a one-institute-per-coded-state pattern at the grain of this extract. Average award size near $66.72 million is the cooperative-institute signature: multi-year umbrella agreements, not investigator R01s. The $1,801,324,209.32 obligation stock is not a cruise-day ledger, not a satellite-procurement file, and not a Sea Grant rollup. Other NOAA listings stay outside CFDA 11.432. Quote 27 as assistance rows and 16 as named organizations.

Award count is not an institute-project count

Among Commerce assistance listings, 11.432 is a thin file: 27 rows against 16 recipients. Multi-year agreement rows and amendments can still inflate award count relative to unique institutes. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of research projects.” Recipients (16) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (27) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report publications, cruise days, or student FTEs. Citing 27 as institutes would over-count unique organizations (16). Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.80 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against cooperative-institute awards — are not in the packet. An institute can show a large obligation stock while a draw follows a later budget year. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 11.432 to size this NOAA Cooperative Institutes listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a weather-forecast, satellite-procurement, or fisheries-management dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 11.432.

What the 11.432 tables omit

The NOAA Cooperative Institutes hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a ship schedule, not a publication index, and not a climate-model inventory. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,801,324,209.32. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 27 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 16 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on research.

Where the 11.432 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 11.432 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other Commerce listings. For 11.432 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 11.432’s 27 awards spread $1,801,324,209.32 across 16 recipients and 16 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $66.72 million per award is the size story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Sixteen states on this extract is the coded map, not a cruise schedule.

Questions

How much is obligated for NOAA Cooperative Institutes?

USAspending.gov records $1,801,324,209.32 in obligations for CFDA 11.432. SpendingVault indexes 27 awards, 16 recipients, and 16 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a scientist count. CFDA 11.432’s $1.80 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 11.432 carry?

The listing shows 27 awards against 16 recipients, or about 1.7 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $66.72 million per award. Award count is not a cruise or lab count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 11.432 awards?

The extract lists 16 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 11.432. Geographic coding covers 16 states. The packet does not name the 16 or publish staffing data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Is $1.80 billion already paid to NOAA institutes?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 11.432’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or research outputs. The $1.80 billion on 27 awards is the obligation figure.