Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy federal funding in FY2026

ARPA-E overlapping FY2026 — CFDA 81.135

The pair is Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy × FY2026. $339,376,063.21 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 81.135 and fiscal year 2026 on the yearlyTrend table. The FY2026 obligation $339,376,063.21 is 20.8% of the CFDA program total of $1,630,927,885.61. This page does not invent the other fiscal-year rows that sit outside FY2026 on ARPA-E. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that FY2026 caused ARPA-E activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a lab ranking or a named ARPA-E performer list.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY - ENERGY. The year on the other side is federal fiscal year 2026. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or an awarding-agency code — this packet publishes no awarding agency and no named recipients. Cite $339,376,063.21 as obligations on the ARPA-E–FY2026 pair. One hundred forty-one FY2026 awards on $339 million sit beside a 665-award program extract; other years remain on the program hub.

CFDA 81.135 as the ARPA-E side

CFDA 81.135 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $1,630,927,885.61 across 665 awards. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the FY2026 cell unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $1,630,927,885.61 as cash Treasury already sent. Performer names, project titles, and technology topics are unpublished on this packet.

FY2026 as the ARPA-E yearlyTrend cell

Federal fiscal year 2026 is the time key on this yearlyTrend row. The year hub FY2026 federal spending at /fiscal-years/2026/ rolls up every program that year in the index, not only ARPA-E. Reading $339,376,063.21 as all FY2026 federal obligations would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one fiscal year, not a Budget Appendix score.

Do not add Federal Election Commission contribution totals to $339,376,063.21. Campaign-finance receipts and USAspending award obligations are separate public-record systems even when a geography or a calendar year happens to overlap. This packet has no FEC facts. Donations do not fund ARPA-E obligations in FY2026.

141 FY2026 awards as a CFDA table, not a project census

The extract lists 141 awards on the ARPA-E × FY2026 table. That is an award-record count for this yearlyTrend cell, not a census of energy projects. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $339,376,063.21 by 141 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable. The program-wide award count is 665, a different denominator.

141 is the award-record count on this FY2026 cell, not a published census of energy projects. Unique vendors and places of performance are unpublished. Do not read 141 as 141 finished projects in ARPA-E during FY2026.

Project rankings this 81.135–FY2026 join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $339,376,063.21 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on ARPA-E in FY2026 over-reads the field. The join cannot say that ARPA-E expanded in FY2026 because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $339,376,063.21 labeled as Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy obligations in fiscal year 2026.

Hubs for CFDA 81.135 × FY2026

Open /programs/81.135/ for CFDA 81.135, /fiscal-years/2026/ for FY2026 federal spending, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a lab ranking or a named ARPA-E performer list, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and FY2026, $339,376,063.21, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did ARPA-E obligate in FY2026?

USAspending.gov records $339,376,063.21 in Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy obligations for fiscal year 2026 (CFDA 81.135) across 141 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not the program-wide $1,630,927,885.61.

Is ARPA-E in FY2026 an outlay?

No. $339,376,063.21 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for ARPA-E in FY2026. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the fiscal year in the citation.

Does 141 awards mean 141 energy prototypes in FY2026?

No. 141 is an award-record count for the FY2026 cell, not a census of energy projects. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. The program-wide count is 665. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the fiscal year in the citation.

Which pages parent ARPA-E and FY2026?

/programs/81.135/ is the program parent. /fiscal-years/2026/ is the FY2026 parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes ARPA-E × FY2026 at $339,376,063.21. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.