Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering — CFDA 12.630

Science-and-engineering research obligations at $2.56 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,560,168,027.42 in obligations under CFDA 12.630. Seven hundred ninety-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3.21 million per award — larger than a typical investigator grant and consistent with multi-year defense science awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical laboratory budget.

The assistance-listing title is BASIC, APPLIED, AND ADVANCED RESEARCH IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. CFDA 12.630 is the identifier. Other Department of Defense research listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.56 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined defense-research total this packet does not contain.

279 recipients across 48 states

Two hundred seventy-nine recipients share 797 awards, or about 2.9 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.56 billion evenly would assign about $9.18 million per recipient. That pattern is a modest portfolio per organization — more than one award, fewer than a dense investigator file, with a 48-state map. The packet does not list the 279. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of investigators, papers, or classified programs.

Forty-eight states in the geographic count show near-nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Research dollars still concentrate where universities and labs sit. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a paper or prototype count

Among defense science listings, 12.630 is a mid-volume file: 797 rows against 279 recipients. Multi-year awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique efforts. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of science programs.” Recipients (279) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (797) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report publications, TRL levels, or patents. Citing 797 as papers or prototypes would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus research outlays

The $2.56 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against these science-and-engineering awards — are not in the packet. A performer can show a large obligation stock while work follows a multi-year calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 12.630 to size this Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a full defense R&D dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 12.630.

What the 12.630 tables omit

The science-and-engineering research hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a classified-program catalog, not a publication index, and not a laboratory staffing report. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,560,168,027.42. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 797 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 48 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 equipment or staff.

Where the 12.630 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 12.630 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other defense-research listings. For 12.630 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 12.630’s 797 awards spread $2,560,168,027.42 across 279 recipients and 48 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.9 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 12.630 as a defense science book with a 48-state map: 279 organizations and about 2.9 rows per recipient. The $2.56 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for basic, applied, and advanced research in science and engineering?

USAspending.gov records $2,560,168,027.42 in obligations for CFDA 12.630. SpendingVault indexes 797 awards, 279 recipients, and 48 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a paper count. CFDA 12.630’s $2.56 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 12.630 carry?

The listing shows 797 awards against 279 recipients, or about 2.9 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $3.21 million per award. Award count is not a paper or prototype count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 12.630 awards?

The extract lists 279 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 12.630. Geographic coding covers 48 states. The packet does not name the 279 or publish classification or publication data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount.

Is $2.56 billion already spent on this research listing?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 12.630’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or papers published. The $2.56 billion on 797 awards is the obligation figure.