Research and Technology Development — CFDA 12.910

Research-and-technology obligations at $2.81 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,807,543,800.26 in obligations under CFDA 12.910. Eight hundred thirty-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3.35 million per award — larger than a typical investigator grant and consistent with multi-year technology-development awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical prototype budget.

The assistance-listing title is RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT. CFDA 12.910 is the identifier. Other Department of Defense science listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.81 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined defense-research total this packet does not contain.

291 recipients across 42 states

Two hundred ninety-one recipients share 837 awards, or about 2.9 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.81 billion evenly would assign about $9.65 million per recipient. That pattern is a modest portfolio per organization — more than one award, fewer than a dense NIH-style file. The packet does not list the 291. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of laboratories, principal investigators, or classified efforts.

Forty-two states in the geographic count leave eight-plus jurisdictions off the coded map. Technology-development dollars still concentrate where universities, labs, and industrial partners sit. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a prototype or patent count

Among defense science listings, 12.910 is a mid-volume file: 837 rows against 291 recipients. Multi-year awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique efforts. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of technology programs.” Recipients (291) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (837) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report patents, TRL levels, or publication counts. Citing 837 as prototypes would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus R&D outlays

The $2.81 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against research-and-technology 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 12.910 to size this Research and Technology Development 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 12.910.

What the 12.910 tables omit

The Research and Technology Development hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a classified-program catalog, not a patent index, and not a laboratory staffing report. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,807,543,800.26. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 837 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 42 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 12.910 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 12.910 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other defense-research listings. For 12.910 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 12.910’s 837 awards spread $2,807,543,800.26 across 291 recipients and 42 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 12.910 as a defense technology-development book: 291 organizations, 42 states, and about 2.9 rows per recipient — denser than a one-award industrial file, thinner than a 5-plus NIH portfolio. The $2.81 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov. Forty-two states and 837 awards keep this listing in the mid-volume defense-research band.

Questions

How much is obligated for research and technology development under CFDA 12.910?

USAspending.gov records $2,807,543,800.26 in obligations for CFDA 12.910. SpendingVault indexes 837 awards, 291 recipients, and 42 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a prototype count. CFDA 12.910’s $2.81 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 12.910 carry?

The listing shows 837 awards against 291 recipients, or about 2.9 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $3.35 million per award. Award count is not a patent or prototype count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 12.910 awards?

The extract lists 291 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 12.910. Geographic coding covers 42 states. The packet does not name the 291 or publish classification or patent data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount.

Is $2.81 billion already spent on this research listing?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 12.910’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or prototypes delivered. The $2.81 billion on 837 awards is the obligation figure.