Civil Air Patrol Program — CFDA 12.840 obligation totals

Two awards carrying $526.8M on one recipient

USAspending.gov records $526.8M in obligations on assistance awards tagged 12.840. Two rows at that dollar scale means each line on the hub is large relative to formula programs that mint thousands of awards. The packet still has no per-award amounts. Do not divide $526.8M by 2 and treat the quotient as a typical Civil Air Patrol grant; even a mechanical split would hide whatever mix of base and modification those two rows contain. Amount-sort on a two-row table is immediate.

No fiscal year is attached. The listing title is Civil Air Patrol Program; the extract does not split cadet programs, emergency-services flights, or aerospace education inside the $526.8M. This guide will not invent that split. If an annual report cites a different federal total, match the CFDA number before adding that report to $526.8M. Other defense assistance listings are other catalog rows.

A two-award file is small enough to read in seconds. That convenience is not a substitute for checking each row’s description field on the program hub. Mission type, aircraft, and volunteer hours are not in the four-field rollup. They may appear on award-level USAspending records; this page will not guess them.

One recipient identifier in the extract

One recipient holds both awards. Recipient count is a distinct-identifier total, not a census of squadrons, wings, or volunteers. The packet does not name the organization beyond the count of 1. Subordinates and local units, if they exist, are not in this rollup and are not inferred here.

A one-recipient file is the most concentrated assistance listing in this slice. Concentration is a fact about identifiers, not a finding about mission performance. Repeat appearance of the same identifier on two award rows means two recorded awards, which can include a modification or a second action. The packet does not say which.

No state count on CFDA 12.840

The extract’s state count is 0 in the packet, which this guide reads as: no state geography is supplied in the rollup, not as a claim that Civil Air Patrol activity occurs nowhere. A nationwide volunteer organization can still have awards whose USAspending state dimension was not aggregated here. Do not invent a 50-state map from a missing count.

The honest geographic tool is the two-row table, which may still have location fields on the individual awards. If those fields are blank, this guide will not fill them. Missing stateCount also means this page cannot support a regional ranking of wings or squadrons.

Patrol-program obligations are not flight-hour outlays

Flight-hour logs, search-and-rescue counts, and cadet-enrollment figures are different datasets. CFDA 12.840’s $526.8M is USAspending assistance-award obligations. Mixing those operational metrics into $526.8M would claim results this file does not contain.

Outlays are payments. Obligations are commitments. A two-award file can still draw over several years. This extract does not report outlays or sorties. Cite $526.8M as recorded commitments on 2 awards to 1 recipient. Do not describe the sum as money already in a local squadron account.

Not a combined defense-volunteer catalog

Other defense assistance listings can sit near 12.840 on the all-programs index because their obligation totals occupy a similar band. Dollar proximity is not a shared mission. Do not add this $526.8M to a neighboring CFDA. Keep the Civil Air Patrol Program on its own catalog row.

Opening the 12.840 rows

The Civil Air Patrol Program page lists the 2 awards and 1 recipient behind $526.8M. The missing state count will not be filled in here; use award-level location fields if they exist. Agency pages are a different USAspending cut; this packet does not name the awarding agency, so the $526.8M stays on the CFDA card. Flight-hour logs remain a different file than this obligation rollup. Cite $526.8M only as the CFDA 12.840 obligation total on SpendingVault. Flight-hour logs are not this CFDA 12.840 extract.

Questions

How much is obligated under the Civil Air Patrol Program?

CFDA 12.840 shows $526.8M in USAspending.gov obligations in SpendingVault’s extract. The figure is a commitment total, not outlays and not a count of flight hours, sorties, or cadets. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 12.840 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

How many Civil Air Patrol awards are in the extract?

The file lists 2 awards and 1 recipient. Award count is a row count; recipient count is distinct identifiers. The packet does not name the organization or count squadrons beneath that identifier. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 12.840 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Which states appear on CFDA 12.840?

This extract does not include a state count. Missing geography in the rollup is not a claim that activity has no locations. Use the two-row program table for any location fields USAspending recorded. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 12.840 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.

Is $526.8M the amount already spent on patrol missions?

No. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. The $526.8M on CFDA 12.840 is the obligation total on 2 awards. Flight hours and local unit budgets are not in this packet. USAspending.gov obligations on CFDA 12.840 are recorded commitments, not Treasury outlays.