Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications — CFDA 81.253

Seventy awards hold $3.14 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,141,691,257 in obligations under CFDA 81.253. Seventy awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $44.9 million per award — far larger than a typical research grant and consistent with demonstration-and-commercial-application awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical factory construction cost.

The assistance-listing title is MANUFACTURING AND ENERGY SUPPLY CHAIN DEMONSTRATIONS AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS. CFDA 81.253 is the identifier. Other energy and manufacturing listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $3.14 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined supply-chain total this packet does not contain.

69 recipients in 35 states

Sixty-nine recipients share 70 awards, or about 1.0 award record per recipient on average. Splitting $3.14 billion evenly would assign about $45.5 million per recipient. That near one-to-one pattern matches a demonstration file in which most named organizations hold a single large row. The packet does not list the 69. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of plants or products.

Thirty-five states in the geographic count show concentrated coding. Demonstration dollars sit where named projects are coded, not in every jurisdiction. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a factory count

Among energy listings, 81.253 is a sparse, high-dollar file: 70 rows against 69 recipients. Multi-year demonstrations can sit as a few large records even while construction spans many sites. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of manufacturing plants.” Recipients (69) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (70) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report units produced, facility square footage, or jobs. Citing 70 as factories would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus demonstration outlays

The $3.14 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against manufacturing and energy supply-chain demonstration awards — are not in the packet. A recipient 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 81.253 to size this demonstration listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a production dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 81.253.

What the 81.253 tables omit

The Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a factory registry, not a production ledger, and not a ranking of technologies. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,141,691,257. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 70 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 35 states is a coding field. A project coded to one cell can dominate geography while work sits in several counties. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares.

Where the 81.253 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 81.253 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other energy listings. For 81.253 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 81.253’s 70 awards spread $3,141,691,257 across 69 recipients and 35 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.0 award record per recipient and about $44.9 million per award are the structure story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 81.253 is indexed at $3,141,691,257 in obligations, 70 awards, 69 recipients, and 35 states on USAspending.gov. Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.14 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 81.253, 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 $3,141,691,257 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications: 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 manufacturing and energy supply-chain demonstrations?

USAspending.gov records $3,141,691,257 in obligations for CFDA 81.253. SpendingVault indexes 70 awards, 69 recipients, and 35 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a factory count. CFDA 81.253’s $3.14 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why does CFDA 81.253 have so few awards?

The listing shows 70 awards against 69 recipients — about one award per recipient. A simple average is about $44.9 million per award. That file shape is consistent with demonstration-scale projects rather than thousands of small grants. Award count is not a factory count.

How many organizations receive 81.253 awards?

The extract lists 69 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 81.253. Geographic coding covers 35 states. The packet does not name the 69 or publish production data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 81.253’s $3.14 billion on 70 awards, with 69 recipients and 35 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.14 billion already spent on these demonstrations?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 81.253’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or units produced. The $3.14 billion on 70 awards is the obligation figure.