Office of Science Financial Assistance Program in Michigan

One hundred eighty-four research records, one DOE cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 81.049 meets Michigan place of performance. The dollar book is $1,588,541,633.40. The award count is 184. Office of Science financial assistance typically posts as grants and cooperative agreements to universities, national-lab partners, and other research organizations. One hundred eighty-four records do not equal 184 principal investigators; modifications and multi-year continuations can share the tape.

The join does not prove that Michigan’s auto-industry research base, Great Lakes environmental science, or a particular university ranking caused $1,588,541,633.40. Those are other series. This packet does not split high-energy physics from basic energy sciences. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Michigan’s full Energy Department obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Other DOE catalog numbers sit elsewhere on the statewide stack. The 184 figure is a record count, not a lab-staff headcount.

A research-grant tape, not a formula block

One hundred eighty-four awards under $1,588,541,633.40 imply a mean near $8,633,378 per award. A few large cooperative agreements or facility-related actions can pull that average up while many smaller grants sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten awards.

Compared with Michigan’s three-award Title I cell, 184 rows is a much thicker tape for a similar dollar order of magnitude. That contrast is a filing pattern: competitive science assistance posts at a finer grain than SEA formula grants. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical R01-style project.

Questions

How much Office of Science financial assistance is in Michigan?

USAspending.gov shows $1,588,541,633.40 in CFDA 81.049 obligations coded to Michigan across 184 awards. The join uses the program number and Michigan place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 184 awards mean 184 research projects?

The extract counts 184 award records tagged to CFDA 81.049 and Michigan. Continuations and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $8,633,378 per award from the two packet facts. Program-office splits are not in this packet.

Is $1.59 billion Michigan’s full DOE spending?

No. $1,588,541,633.40 is only the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program cell. Other CFDA programs with Michigan place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 81.049 is not limited to Michigan.

Do these obligations equal cash spent in labs?

No. $1,588,541,633.40 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Multi-year research vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts.