National Guard Challenge Program — CFDA 12.404

ChalleNGe obligations at $750,452,192.07

USAspending.gov records $750,452,192.07 in obligations under CFDA 12.404. Two hundred seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3,625,373 per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical academy-year budget and not a cost per cadet. Other National Guard youth or education listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $750,452,192.07.

The assistance-listing title is NATIONAL GUARD CHALLENGE PROGRAM. CFDA 12.404 is the identifier. Combining 12.404 with Youth Challenge or STARBASE codes would invent a combined Guard-youth total this packet does not contain. Read the $750,452,192.07 as the obligation book tagged 12.404 only.

37 recipients in 35 jurisdictions

Thirty-seven recipients share 207 awards, or about 5.6 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $750,452,192.07 evenly would assign about $20.3 million per recipient. That density is a multi-year academy pattern: a small named-state-program headcount carrying several assistance rows. The packet does not list the 37.

Thirty-five jurisdictions in the geographic count nearly match the 37-recipient headcount. ChalleNGe dollars follow funded academies, not equal shares across every state. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of cadets or mentors.

Award rows are not a cadet census

Among Defense listings, 12.404 is a mid-row cooperative file: 207 awards against 37 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of ChalleNGe academies” and a worse proxy for youth served. Recipients (37) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (207) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report completions, GED rates, or post-residential placements. Citing 207 as cadets would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $750,452,192.07 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov.

Obligations versus ChalleNGe outlays

The $750,452,192.07 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against National Guard Challenge Program awards — are not in the packet. A cooperative file can show a large obligation stock while academies draw against residential-year budgets. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Use CFDA 12.404 to size this ChalleNGe listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an enrollment dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 12.404.

What the 12.404 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a cadet roster, not a GED file, and not a recruiting pipeline. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $750,452,192.07. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 207 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 35 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of ChalleNGe funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to state Guard programs.

Where the 12.404 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 12.404 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other Defense listings. For 12.404 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 12.404’s 207 awards spread $750,452,192.07 across 37 recipients and 35 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 5.6 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

A researcher comparing 12.404 with other National Guard youth codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The 37-recipient headcount on 35 jurisdictions is a youth-academy cooperative fingerprint. Quote $750,452,192.07 as the USAspending obligation stock for the National Guard Challenge Program only. About 5.6 award records per recipient is the density story on 207 awards. Cadet counts, GED rates, and post-residential placements remain outside the packet. Outlays are a separate column.

Questions

How much is obligated for the National Guard Challenge Program?

USAspending.gov records $750,452,192.07 in obligations for CFDA 12.404. SpendingVault indexes 207 awards, 37 recipients, and 35 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a cadet count. CFDA 12.404’s $750,452,192.07 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 12.404 carry?

The listing shows 207 awards against 37 recipients, or about 5.6 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $3,625,373 per award. Award count is not a count of cadets or GEDs. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 12.404 awards?

The extract lists 37 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 12.404, not a census of academies’ staff. Geographic coding covers 35 jurisdictions. The packet does not name the 37 or publish enrollment. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $750,452,192.07 already paid for ChalleNGe academies?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 12.404’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or cadets graduated. The $750,452,192.07 on 207 awards is the obligation figure. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.