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Military Medical Research and Development — CFDA 12.420

$9,673,629,752.95 ($9.7 billion) in federal obligations are recorded for Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) in USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault. The extract lists 5,102 awards, 719 recipients, and 49 states. Those figures are obligations, not outlays and not a count of trials completed

Key figures

  • CFDA 12.420 shows $9,673,629,752.95 in USAspending obligations.
  • 5,102 awards and 719 recipients sit under that total across 49 states.
  • Award volume is high relative to many capital listings of similar dollar size.
  • Figures are obligations from USAspending.gov, not Treasury outlays.

5,102 awards under $9.67 billion

Assistance listing 12.420 is titled MILITARY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $9,673,629,752.95. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not a laboratory invoice already paid.

5,102 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $9,673,629,752.95 by 5,102 produces a mean near $1.90 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical clinical-trial budget and not a per-service-member research cost. Many research actions can add to $9,673,629,752.95 without any single row dominating the table.

719 organizational recipients appear on those rows. 49 states are coded for place of performance. Neither count converts the obligation total into a headcount of investigators.

719 recipients and 49 states

CFDA 12.420 lists 719 recipients against 5,102 awards. Recipient count is not unique scientists. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores. One university, hospital, or institute can hold many awards, which is why 5,102 records can sit on 719 recipients.

Forty-nine states is a coded-jurisdiction span. Extra modifications can lift the 5,102-award count while dollars stay near $9,673,629,752.95. The military-medical research hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus research outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $9,673,629,752.95 figure for CFDA 12.420 can include multi-year commitments that will disburse later. A separate research-program justification or a Treasury outlay table is a different publication. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 12.420 program page. Do not stretch 5,102 awards to cover every military-medical dollar tagged under another listing.

What the 12.420 tables omit

The Military Medical Research and Development hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a grant abstract file, not a patient roster, and not a ranking of study quality. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $9,673,629,752.95.

Place-of-performance on 49 states is a coding field. A multi-site award coded to one cell can dominate geography while work occurs in several locations. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 12.420

A complete citation is $9,673,629,752.95 in obligations for CFDA 12.420, covering 5,102 awards, 719 recipients, and 49 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is award volume rather than dollars, lead with 5,102 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Military Medical Research and Development program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A worked reading of the 12.420 extract

Start from the four packet facts on CFDA 12.420: $9,673,629,752.95 in obligations, 5,102 awards, 719 recipients, and 49 states. The mean near $1.90 million per award is a quotient from those two packet totals, not a typical unit cost and not a household or client rate. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large actions, dollars can jump while 719 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 5,102 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $9,673,629,752.95.

Nothing in the extract splits MILITARY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT into subaccounts, fiscal years, or outlay versus obligation series beyond the stored totals. Those cuts live in other publications. Treat CFDA 12.420 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 5,102 awards and 719 recipients next to the dollars so the record count is visible beside $9,673,629,752.95. Name the series as obligations, not outlays, every time the figure is reused. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A complete working citation for this listing is $9,673,629,752.95 in USAspending.gov obligations for CFDA 12.420, covering 5,102 awards, 719 recipients, and 49 states, indexed on SpendingVault. Do not convert 5,102 awards into a publication count, or 719 recipients into a scientist roster. The 49-state field is place-of-performance coding in the assistance extract. Read the MILITARY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT hub before inferring a geographic story from the dollar total alone. If a number you expected is missing from $9,673,629,752.95, the usual cause is a different reporting concept rather than a gap in the 5,102 award rows.

Questions

How much is obligated under military medical research and development?
USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $9,673,629,752.95 in obligations for CFDA 12.420. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of papers. The same extract lists 5,102 awards, 719 recipients, and 49 states.
How many awards does CFDA 12.420 have?
The indexed award count is 5,102. Those records carry $9,673,629,752.95 in obligations. The 5,102 figure is a file statistic, not a count of investigators. 719 organizational recipients are stored on those rows. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.
Is the $9.67 billion already spent in labs?
Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $9,673,629,752.95 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. Cite CFDA 12.420 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.
How many states appear on CFDA 12.420?
The extract codes 49 states for Military Medical Research and Development. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every lab. Those rows still sit under the $9,673,629,752.95 obligation total and the 719-recipient count. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

CFDA/Assistance Listing numbers from USAspending assistance awards on SpendingVault.