Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards — CFDA 11.609

Measurement-research obligations at $430.2M

USAspending.gov records $430,195,040.61 in obligations under CFDA 11.609. Those 462 awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $931,158 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical award and not a unit cost for standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. Other NIST or Commerce research listings under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $430,195,040.61.

The assistance-listing title is MEASUREMENT AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND STANDARDS. CFDA 11.609 is the identifier. Read the $430.2M headline — $430,195,040.61 in the award file — as the obligation book tagged 11.609 only. USAspending.gov assistance awards are the source. This page does not convert obligations into outlays or into a count of standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed.

462 awards on 189 research recipients

189 recipients share 462 awards. That is about 2.4 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $430,195,040.61 evenly would assign about $2.28 million per recipient. That density is a packet quotient, not a typical grant size and not a cost per unit of standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. The packet does not list the 189 named organizations. Read $430,195,040.61 only against CFDA 11.609.

Forty-two jurisdictions describe a broad university-and-lab map. Measurement-research dollars follow funded partners, not equal shares of manufacturing output. Place-of-performance amounts, if shown, live on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. A simple average is about $931,158 per award. Combining 11.609 with other NIST or Commerce research listings under different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total this packet does not contain.

Award rows are not a standards census

Among assistance listings, 11.609 is a mid-to-high research-cooperative file: 462 awards against 189 named recipients in 42 jurisdictions. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of projects” and a worse proxy for standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. The recipient field (189 recipients) tells you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (462) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. Citing 462 as that unit would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $430,195,040.61 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov. One hundred eighty-nine recipients on 462 awards is a multi-year NIST-partner pattern.

Obligations versus measurement-research outlays

The $430,195,040.61 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards awards — are not in the packet. A file can show a large obligation stock while draws, reimbursements, or closeouts follow a different schedule. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. Treasury outlays are a separate series.

Use CFDA 11.609 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a dashboard of standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 11.609. The $430.2M figure is the compact form of $430,195,040.61.

What the 11.609 tables omit

Geographic coding covers 42 jurisdictions. Forty-two jurisdictions describe a broad university-and-lab map. Measurement-research dollars follow funded partners, not equal shares of manufacturing output. It is not a standards catalog, not a manufacturing-extension total, and not a count of every calibration performed. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $430,195,040.61.

Place-of-performance on 42 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid.

Where the 11.609 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 11.609 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 11.609 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 11.609’s 462 awards spread $430,195,040.61 across 189 recipients and 42 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.4 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for measurement and engineering research and standards?

USAspending.gov records $430,195,040.61 in obligations for CFDA 11.609. SpendingVault indexes 462 awards, 189 recipients, and 42 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. CFDA 11.609’s $430.2M is the compact form of that USAspending stock.

How many awards does CFDA 11.609 carry?

The listing shows 462 awards against 189 recipients, or about 2.4 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $931,158 per award. Award count is not a count of standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 11.609 awards?

The extract lists 189 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 11.609, not a census of standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. Geographic coding covers 42 jurisdictions. The packet does not name them. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $430.2M already spent on measurement research?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 11.609’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or standards published, calibrations completed, or patents filed. The $430.2M ($430,195,040.61) on 462 awards is the obligation figure.