Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program — CFDA 12.800

Defense-research obligations at $4.58 billion

USAspending.gov records $4,579,717,649.61 in obligations under CFDA 12.800. Two thousand four hundred eighty-three awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $1.84 million per award — typical of multi-year research grants rather than state block grants. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical investigation budget.

The assistance-listing title is AIR FORCE DEFENSE RESEARCH SCIENCES PROGRAM. CFDA 12.800 is the identifier. Other defense-research listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $4.58 billion.

USAspending.gov records the $4,579,717,649.61 obligation stock for CFDA 12.800 together with 2,483 awards, 601 recipients, and 47 states. Keep Air Force Defense Research Sciences on 12.800 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

Six hundred one recipients, 47 states

Six hundred one recipients share 2,483 awards, or about 4.1 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $4.58 billion evenly would assign about $7.6 million per recipient. Universities, labs, and related organizations are the unit this kind of listing usually names; the packet does not list the 601.

Forty-seven states in the geographic count show broad coding without covering every coded jurisdiction. Research dollars still concentrate at large campuses and laboratories. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a prototype count

Among research listings, 12.800 is a dense file: 2,483 rows against 601 recipients. Renewals and related actions can inflate award count relative to unique investigations. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of defense-research projects.” Recipients (601) are the organizational headcount.

The packet does not report publications, prototypes, or classified inventories. Citing 2,483 as studies or systems would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus research outlays

The $4.58 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against these research awards — are not in the packet. An institution can show a large obligation stock while draws follow a multi-year grant calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Use CFDA 12.800 to size this Air Force Defense Research Sciences listing. Do not use it as a scientific-progress scorecard. This page reports the obligation book tagged 12.800.

What the 12.800 tables omit

The Air Force Defense Research Sciences hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a publication index, not a prototype catalog, and not a classified inventory. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $4,579,717,649.61.

Place-of-performance on 47 states is a coding field. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on equipment or staff.

Where the 12.800 table lives

The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 12.800 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups. For 12.800 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 12.800’s 2,483 awards spread $4,579,717,649.61 across 601 recipients and 47 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 4.1 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 12.800 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census. Start on the program page for CFDA 12.800 before ranking this listing against other assistance rows. Obligations remain the reporting concept on this extract; outlays are not stored in the packet facts. Award count is a record count; recipient count is the organizational headcount; the state figure is a coded-jurisdiction count from USAspending.gov. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the obligation stock; this page does not publish remaining balances. Internal links on this overlay point to the program page, the all-programs index, and agency rollups. SpendingVault indexes USAspending.gov assistance awards; it does not convert this CFDA into a performance scorecard. If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept than obligations on assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for Air Force defense research sciences?

USAspending.gov records $4,579,717,649.61 in obligations for CFDA 12.800. SpendingVault indexes 2,483 awards, 601 recipients, and 47 states. The figure is an obligation sum, not an outlay and not a study count. CFDA 12.800’s $4.58 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 12.800 carry?

The listing shows 2,483 awards against 601 recipients, or about 4.1 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $1.84 million per award. Award count is not a prototype or publication count. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

How many organizations receive these research awards?

The extract lists 601 recipients on assistance awards tagged 12.800. Geographic coding covers 47 states. The packet does not name the 601 or publish scientific output. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

Is $4.58 billion already spent on defense research sciences?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 12.800’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn or research results. The $4.58 billion on 2,483 awards is the obligation figure. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.