Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy — CFDA 81.135

ARPA-E obligations at $1.63 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,630,927,885.61 in obligations under CFDA 81.135. Six hundred sixty-five awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $2.45 million per award — consistent with high-risk energy-project grants rather than a utility construction loan. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical lab budget or a per-prototype cost.

The assistance-listing title is ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY - ENERGY. CFDA 81.135 is the identifier. Other DOE applied-research or demonstration listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.63 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined DOE-R&D total this packet does not contain.

328 recipients across 47 states

Three hundred twenty-eight recipients share 665 awards, or about 2.0 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1.63 billion evenly would assign about $4.97 million per recipient. That pattern is a performer roster with roughly two award rows per named organization. The packet does not list the 328. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of inventors or startups.

Forty-seven states in the geographic count is a broad but incomplete map. ARPA-E dollars follow where performers are coded, not population. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Six hundred sixty-five awards on 328 recipients in 47 states is a competitive energy-R&D portfolio, about two rows per performer. About $2.45 million per award is project-scale, not a utility construction loan. The $1,630,927,885.61 obligation stock is not a patent file, not a megawatt ledger, and not an ARPA-H (93.384) rollup. Other DOE applied-research listings stay outside CFDA 81.135. Quote 665 as assistance rows and 328 as named organizations. Forty-seven states is the coded map, not a finding that energy research never occurs in the remaining jurisdictions.

Award count is not a prototype count

Among DOE assistance listings, 81.135 is a mid-volume file: 665 rows against 328 recipients. Multi-year project rows and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique performers. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of technologies.” Recipients (328) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (665) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report patents, megawatts, or commercialization outcomes. Citing 665 as prototypes would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.63 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against ARPA-E awards — are not in the packet. A performer can show a large obligation stock while a draw follows a later milestone. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 81.135 to size this ARPA-E listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an ARPA-H, EERE, or Loan Programs Office dashboard. Those series live on other codes. This page reports the obligation book tagged 81.135.

What the 81.135 tables omit

The ARPA-E hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a patent file, not a demonstration-plant inventory, and not an energy-price model. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,630,927,885.61. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 665 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 47 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 R&D.

Where the 81.135 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 81.135 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other Energy listings. For 81.135 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 81.135’s 665 awards spread $1,630,927,885.61 across 328 recipients and 47 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.0 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for ARPA-E?

USAspending.gov records $1,630,927,885.61 in obligations for CFDA 81.135. SpendingVault indexes 665 awards, 328 recipients, and 47 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a prototype count. CFDA 81.135’s $1.63 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 81.135 carry?

The listing shows 665 awards against 328 recipients, or about 2.0 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $2.45 million per award. Award count is not a patent or megawatt count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 81.135 awards?

The extract lists 328 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 81.135. Geographic coding covers 47 states. The packet does not name the 328 or publish patent counts. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Is $1.63 billion already paid to ARPA-E performers?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 81.135’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or prototypes delivered. The $1.63 billion on 665 awards is the obligation figure.