Air Force Defense Research Sciences awarded by Defense

Air Force Defense Research Sciences overlapping Defense — CFDA 12.800

The pair is Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program × Department of Defense. $4,579,717,649.61 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 12.800 and awarding-agency 097. The join obligation $4,579,717,649.61 equals the CFDA program total of $4,579,717,649.61 in this extract, so this packet does not publish a leftover Air Force Defense Research Sciences slice at a second awarding agency. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that Department of Defense caused Air Force Defense Research Sciences activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a defense-lab ranking or a named contractor roster.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is AIR FORCE DEFENSE RESEARCH SCIENCES PROGRAM. The agency name on the awarding side is Department of Defense. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or a fiscal-year stamp — this packet publishes no fiscal year. Cite $4,579,717,649.61 as obligations on the Air Force Defense Research Sciences–Defense pair.

CFDA 12.800 as the Air Force defense research sciences side

CFDA 12.800 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $4,579,717,649.61. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the Department of Defense slice unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $4,579,717,649.61 as cash Treasury already sent. Performers, topics, and installations are unpublished on this packet.

Open CFDA 12.800 at /programs/12.800/ for the program hub. That page is not this join: it can include other awarding agencies if the extract lists them, and it is still obligations rather than outlays. This ties page stays on CFDA 12.800 awarded by agency 097 only.

Agency 097, Department of Defense

Department of Defense is awarding-agency 097 on USAspending assistance rows. The agency hub Department of Defense at /agencies/097/ rolls up every program that agency awards in the index, not only Air Force Defense Research Sciences. Reading $4,579,717,649.61 as Department of Defense’s entire book would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one agency, not a department budget justification.

2,483 awards as a CFDA table, not a lab census

The extract lists 2,483 awards on the Air Force Defense Research Sciences × Department of Defense table. That is an award-record count, not a census of laboratories. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $4,579,717,649.61 by 2,483 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable.

Lab rankings this Air Force research–Defense join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $4,579,717,649.61 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Air Force Defense Research Sciences over-reads the field. The join cannot say that Department of Defense specialized in Air Force Defense Research Sciences because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $4,579,717,649.61 labeled as Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program obligations awarded by Department of Defense.

Budget justifications, program evaluations, and press releases answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes a different CFDA with Department of Defense or a different awarding agency with Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program, the chart has left this join. Performers, topics, and installations are unpublished on this packet.

Hubs for CFDA 12.800 × agency 097

Open /programs/12.800/ for CFDA 12.800, /agencies/097/ for Department of Defense, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a defense-lab ranking or a named contractor roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program and Department of Defense, $4,579,717,649.61, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did Department of Defense award on Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program?

USAspending.gov records $4,579,717,649.61 in Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program obligations awarded by Department of Defense (CFDA 12.800, agency 097) across 2,483 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not Department of Defense’s entire book.

Is Air Force research via Defense cash already paid?

No. $4,579,717,649.61 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Air Force Defense Research Sciences awarded by Department of Defense. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does 2,483 awards mean 2,483 laboratories?

No. 2,483 is an award-record count, not a census of laboratories. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without a new organization. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.

Which pages parent Air Force Defense Research Sciences and Defense?

/programs/12.800/ is the program parent. /agencies/097/ is the Department of Defense parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Air Force Defense Research Sciences × Defense at $4,579,717,649.61.