Aeronautics — CFDA 43.002

Aeronautics obligations at $427.7M

USAspending.gov records $427,728,907.54 in obligations under CFDA 43.002. Those 159 awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $2.69 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical award and not a unit cost for flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. Other NASA assistance listings under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $427,728,907.54.

The assistance-listing title is AERONAUTICS. CFDA 43.002 is the identifier. Read the $427.7M headline — $427,728,907.54 in the award file — as the obligation book tagged 43.002 only. USAspending.gov assistance awards are the source. This page does not convert obligations into outlays or into a count of flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced.

159 awards on 93 aeronautics partners

93 recipients share 159 awards. That is about 1.7 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $427,728,907.54 evenly would assign about $4.60 million per recipient. That density is a packet quotient, not a typical grant size and not a cost per unit of flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. The packet does not list the 93 named organizations. Read $427,728,907.54 only against CFDA 43.002.

Thirty-six jurisdictions describe where Aeronautics assistance recipients are coded. Dollars follow funded universities and partners, not equal shares of aviation activity. Place-of-performance amounts, if shown, live on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. A simple average is about $2.69 million per award. Combining 43.002 with other NASA assistance listings under different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total this packet does not contain.

Award rows are not a flight-test census

Among assistance listings, 43.002 is a mid-row aeronautics-partner file: 159 awards against 93 named recipients in 36 jurisdictions. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of projects” and a worse proxy for flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. The recipient field (93 recipients) tells you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (159) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. Citing 159 as that unit would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $427,728,907.54 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov. Ninety-three recipients on 159 awards is a university-and-lab aeronautics pattern.

Obligations versus Aeronautics outlays

The $427,728,907.54 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Aeronautics awards — are not in the packet. A file can show a large obligation stock while draws, reimbursements, or closeouts follow a different schedule. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. Treasury outlays are a separate series.

Use CFDA 43.002 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a dashboard of flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 43.002. The $427.7M figure is the compact form of $427,728,907.54.

What the 43.002 tables omit

Geographic coding covers 36 jurisdictions. Thirty-six jurisdictions describe where Aeronautics assistance recipients are coded. Dollars follow funded universities and partners, not equal shares of aviation activity. It is not an FAA certification log, not a procurement-contract book, and not a count of every research flight. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $427,728,907.54.

Place-of-performance on 36 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of Aeronautics funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid.

Where the 43.002 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 43.002 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 43.002 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 43.002’s 159 awards spread $427,728,907.54 across 93 recipients and 36 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.7 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for NASA Aeronautics assistance?

USAspending.gov records $427,728,907.54 in obligations for CFDA 43.002. SpendingVault indexes 159 awards, 93 recipients, and 36 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. CFDA 43.002’s $427.7M is the compact form of that USAspending stock.

How many awards does CFDA 43.002 carry?

The listing shows 159 awards against 93 recipients, or about 1.7 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $2.69 million per award. Award count is not a count of flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 43.002 awards?

The extract lists 93 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 43.002, not a census of flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. Geographic coding covers 36 jurisdictions. The packet does not name them. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $427.7M already spent on aeronautics research?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 43.002’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or flight tests completed, aircraft certified, or air-traffic delays reduced. The $427.7M ($427,728,907.54) on 159 awards is the obligation figure.