Engineering — CFDA 47.041

Engineering obligations at $3.24 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,236,403,040 in obligations under CFDA 47.041. Four thousand eight hundred sixty-five awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $665,000 per award — typical of competitive research grants rather than capital construction awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical laboratory budget.

The assistance-listing title is ENGINEERING. CFDA 47.041 is the identifier. Biological sciences and other science listings are separate CFDA numbers and are not mixed into the $3.24 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined science total this packet does not contain.

392 recipients, 4,865 award rows

Three hundred ninety-two recipients share 4,865 awards, or about 12.4 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $3.24 billion evenly would assign about $8.3 million per recipient. That pattern matches a research portfolio in which engineering campuses hold many concurrent awards. The packet does not list the 392. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of principal investigators.

Fifty-three states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Research dollars still concentrate at large engineering campuses. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a prototype count

Among science listings, 47.041 is a dense file: 4,865 rows against 392 recipients. Competing renewals and supplements can inflate award count relative to unique projects. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of engineering studies.” Recipients (392) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (4,865) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report publication counts, patents, or student enrollments. Citing 4,865 as prototypes or papers would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus research outlays

The $3.24 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against engineering awards — are not in the packet. A laboratory can show a large obligation stock while draws follow a multi-year grant calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 47.041 to size the Engineering listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a scientific-progress scorecard. Publications and patents live in other series. This page reports the obligation book tagged 47.041.

What the 47.041 tables omit

The Engineering hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a publication index, not a patent docket, and not a prototype catalog. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,236,403,040. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 4,865 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 53 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 instruments or staff.

Where the 47.041 table lives

The Engineering program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 47.041 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other science listings. For 47.041 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 47.041’s 4,865 awards spread $3,236,403,040 across 392 recipients and 53 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 12.4 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 47.041 is indexed at $3,236,403,040 in obligations, 4,865 awards, 392 recipients, and 53 states on USAspending.gov. Engineering should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.24 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 47.041, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $3,236,403,040 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Engineering: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for Engineering?

USAspending.gov records $3,236,403,040 in obligations for CFDA 47.041. SpendingVault indexes 4,865 awards, 392 recipients, and 53 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a study count. CFDA 47.041’s $3.24 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 47.041 carry?

The listing shows 4,865 awards against 392 recipients, or about 12.4 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $665,000 per award. Award count is not a publication or prototype count. Recipient dollars are on the program page. CFDA 47.041’s $3.24 billion on 4,865 awards, with 392 recipients and 53 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many organizations receive Engineering awards?

The extract lists 392 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 47.041. Geographic coding covers 53 states. The packet does not name the 392 or publish scientific output. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 47.041’s $3.24 billion on 4,865 awards, with 392 recipients and 53 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.24 billion already spent on engineering research?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 47.041’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or research results. The $3.24 billion on 4,865 awards is the obligation figure.