Mathematical and Physical Sciences — CFDA 47.049

7,267 awards under $7.78 billion

Assistance listing 47.049 is titled MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $7,778,163,487. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not a laboratory invoice already paid.

7,267 awards sit under that dollar book—a high record count among listings of similar size. Dividing $7,778,163,487 by 7,267 produces a mean near $1.07 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical investigator salary and not a per-paper research cost. Many research actions can add to $7,778,163,487 without any single row dominating the table.

532 organizational recipients appear on those rows. 52 states are coded for place of performance. Neither count converts the obligation total into a headcount of scientists.

532 recipients and 52 states

CFDA 47.049 lists 532 recipients against 7,267 awards. Recipient count is not unique investigators. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores. One university or institute can hold many awards, which is why 7,267 records can sit on 532 recipients.

Fifty-two states is a coded-jurisdiction span. Extra modifications can lift the 7,267-award count while dollars stay near $7,778,163,487. The mathematical-and-physical-sciences hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus research outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $7,778,163,487 figure for CFDA 47.049 can include multi-year commitments that will disburse later. A separate directorate budget justification or a Treasury outlay table is a different publication. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 47.049 program page. Do not stretch 7,267 awards to cover every science dollar tagged under another listing.

What the 47.049 tables omit

The Mathematical and Physical Sciences hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a grant abstract file, not a publication list, and not a ranking of departments. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $7,778,163,487.

Place-of-performance on 52 states is a coding field. A multi-institution award coded to one cell can dominate geography while work occurs in several locations. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 47.049

A complete citation is $7,778,163,487 in obligations for CFDA 47.049, covering 7,267 awards, 532 recipients, and 52 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is award volume rather than dollars, lead with 7,267 awards, then the dollar total.

Start with the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A worked reading of the 47.049 extract

Start from the four packet facts on CFDA 47.049: $7,778,163,487 in obligations, 7,267 awards, 532 recipients, and 52 states. The mean near $1.07 million per award is a quotient from those two packet totals, not a typical unit cost and not a household or client rate. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large actions, dollars can jump while 532 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 7,267 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $7,778,163,487.

Nothing in the extract splits MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES into subaccounts, fiscal years, or outlay versus obligation series beyond the stored totals. Those cuts live in other publications. Treat CFDA 47.049 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 7,267 awards and 532 recipients next to the dollars so the record count is visible beside $7,778,163,487. Name the series as obligations, not outlays, every time the figure is reused. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A complete working citation for this listing is $7,778,163,487 in USAspending.gov obligations for CFDA 47.049, covering 7,267 awards, 532 recipients, and 52 states, indexed on SpendingVault. Do not convert 7,267 awards into a publication count, or 532 recipients into a scientist roster. The 52-state field is place-of-performance coding in the assistance extract. Read the MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES hub before inferring a geographic story from the dollar total alone. If a number you expected is missing from $7,778,163,487, the usual cause is a different reporting concept rather than a gap in the 7,267 award rows.

Questions

How much is obligated under mathematical and physical sciences?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $7,778,163,487 in obligations for CFDA 47.049. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of papers. The same extract lists 7,267 awards, 532 recipients, and 52 states.

How many awards does CFDA 47.049 have?

The indexed award count is 7,267. Those records carry $7,778,163,487 in obligations. The 7,267 figure is a file statistic, not a count of investigators. 532 organizational recipients are stored on those rows. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

Is the $7.78 billion already spent in labs?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $7,778,163,487 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. Cite CFDA 47.049 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

How many states appear on CFDA 47.049?

The extract codes 52 states for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every lab. Those rows still sit under the $7,778,163,487 obligation total and the 532-recipient count. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.