Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board federal obligations

Oversight work on a 36-award book

DNFSB staffs site representatives and technical experts who review DOE defense nuclear operations. None of those site names are in this packet. $23,704,934.44 is what the Board obligated on federal awards through FY2026—technical support, IT, facilities, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 347. A year with more Board recommendations does not automatically move this total. A support contract can move it with no change in the recommendation docket.

Thirty-six awards is a very thin book. Dividing $23,704,934.44 by 36 yields about $658,470 per award. That high mean on a tiny count is the signature of a micro-oversight agency: few instruments, each large enough to matter in the average. The packet has no median.

DOE plant budgets are not this $23.7 million

Los Alamos, Savannah River, Pantex, and other defense nuclear sites are funded primarily through Department of Energy awarding-agency codes, not through DNFSB’s 36 rows. Mixing DOE plant obligations with $23,704,934.44 would treat the overseer as if it ran the plants. This page stays on CGAC 347.

Board member and staff salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. The $23.7 million understates the Board’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

FY2026 cutoff

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $23,704,934.44 is cumulative through that horizon, not DNFSB’s FY2026 appropriation alone. Multi-year technical-support awards remain in the running total until closed.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments for awarding agency 347. Thirty-six awards means a single large modification can move the agency total more than it would at a 2,853-award endowment.

CGAC 347

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board rows use awarding-agency code 347. DOE, NNSA, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are separate CGACs. Civilian reactor oversight at NRC is not this Board’s statute and not this award book. SpendingVault’s /agencies/347/ path stays on DNFSB.

State tables versus site geography

The state table for agency 347 attributes 36 awards using USAspending location fields. That map is vendor and performance geography for Board awards, not a map of DOE defense nuclear sites. A large state share can be a headquarters contractor, not a claim that that state hosts more defense nuclear work.

Open the DNFSB agency page for the live $23,704,934.44 and 36-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 347. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of nuclear risk.

Site representatives, DOE plants, and a 36-row overseer book

DNFSB site representatives work at Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities. Those site assignments are not the 36 USAspending awards. Plant operations are funded primarily through other awarding-agency codes. Mixing plant obligations with $23,704,934.44 would treat the overseer as if it ran the plants. This page stays on CGAC 347.

Thirty-six awards means one modification is visible in the agency total. A technical-support vehicle can swing $23.7 million more than the same change would swing a high-volume grant catalog. Refresh the DNFSB agency page after warehouse updates rather than treating this prose as frozen. The packet has no award IDs, so this file does not name the 36 instruments.

The state table for agency 347 is vendor and performance geography for Board awards, not a map of defense nuclear sites. A large share in one state can be a headquarters contractor. Board staff salaries generally never appear among the 36 rows, so the table understates full operating cost. FY2026 is the cutoff. Outlays are unpublished. Keep this CGAC unmerged with nuclear-regulatory or energy awarding agencies.

Board recommendations to the Secretary of Energy are the DNFSB’s public docket. Recommendation counts are not the 36 awards. A year with more recommendations can leave $23,704,934.44 unchanged. A technical-support vehicle can move it with no change in the docket. Keep those clocks separate. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the DNFSB agency page for live CGAC 347 tables. Plant-level DOE awards remain other CGACs. The 36-row book is thin: one modification is visible in the agency total.

Technical-support contracts can cover more than one defense nuclear site while carrying a single USAspending location tag. The 36 awards total $23,704,934.44 through FY2026 for CGAC 347. Do not read a state share as a site-by-site safety budget. Open award-level records for recipient names. Use the DNFSB agency page for live tables. DOE plant awards remain other CGACs. One modification is visible in a 36-row book.

Questions

How much has DNFSB obligated on USAspending?

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board shows $23,704,934.44 in obligations through FY2026 across 36 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 347 is the filter. The total is not DOE plant funding and not a count of Board recommendations. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 347 is the source for the current 36-award book.

Why are there only 36 DNFSB awards?

The extract counts 36 instruments for CGAC 347. Dividing $23.7 million by that count yields about $658,470 per award. A small oversight board often buys few support contracts. The packet has no median. One modification can move the total noticeably.

What is agency code 347?

347 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for DNFSB. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/347/. DOE, NNSA, and NRC use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $23.7 million include weapons-plant contracts?

Not as a DOE awarding-agency total. Those plant awards sit under other CGACs. This page reports only DNFSB’s $23,704,934.44 on 36 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.