Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment obligations in Alabama

One prime award carries Alabama’s BEAD allocation

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 11.035 meets Alabama place of performance. The dollar book is $1,401,221,902. The award count is 1. BEAD state allocations typically post as a single large award to the designated state recipient. One prime record does not mean one ISP was selected, and it does not isolate the Black Belt from the Tennessee Valley.

The join does not prove that Alabama’s unserved-location count, rural density, or a particular middle-mile map caused $1,401,221,902. Those are other series. This packet has no project list. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Alabama’s full federal obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. The 1 figure is a record count, not a count of passing addresses.

The implied mean equals the cell

One award under $1,401,221,902 implies a mean of $1,401,221,902. With a single row, mean and total are the same number. Downstream subawards to ISPs are not additional prime awards in this extract.

Alabama’s BEAD dollar book sits close to Minnesota’s Basic Health Program total on this slice, but those are different catalog numbers in different states. Do not treat the coincidence as a comparison of programs. Cite BEAD’s own columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the total as a typical last-mile contract.

Alabama’s 11.035 cell versus the statewide stack

Alabama’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. BEAD is one NTIA line. $1,401,221,902 is not Alabama’s all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 11.035 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance on a state BEAD award usually sits on Alabama even when future subawards scatter. This packet does not reallocate dollars to counties. Read the overlay as a coding view of 1 award.

Obligations versus fiber in the ground

The $1,401,221,902 figure is an obligation sum. Construction outlays can trail the federal obligation by years. SpendingVault does not publish an 11.035-in-Alabama outlay total in this packet. Mixing FCC map locations or speed-test statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 11.035 × Alabama, $1,401,221,902, 1 award, obligations only.

Parent hubs

The Alabama × Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,401,221,902 on 1 award. The Alabama spending page and the CFDA 11.035 program page are the parents. The Alabama programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into fiber miles or into outlays this packet omits.

What Alabama BEAD is not

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program in Alabama is not a ranking of Black Belt counties by unserved locations and not a count of fiber miles. The $1,401,221,902 figure is the CFDA 11.035 × Alabama cell. One award describes the state allocation filing, not one ISP. Subawards that come later are not extra prime rows in this extract.

The dollar book sits close to Minnesota’s Basic Health Program total on this slice; that coincidence is not a comparison of programs. Cite BEAD and Alabama together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 1-award count. Construction draws can lag the federal obligation by years. Later bulk files can revise both dollars and the record count.

Alabama’s BEAD cell also does not include FCC map locations, Black Belt project lists, or ISP subawards. Those series live with NTIA and the state broadband office after subawards post. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 11.035 × Alabama, $1,401,221,902, 1 award. With one row, the implied mean equals the total. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a construction story.

Keep both sides of the join in any citation: Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment and Alabama, obligations only, one award on $1,401,221,902.

Questions

How much BEAD spending is in Alabama?

USAspending.gov shows $1,401,221,902 in CFDA 11.035 obligations coded to Alabama across 1 award. The join uses the program number and Alabama place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why is there only 1 award for $1.40 billion?

BEAD state allocations often post as a single large prime award to the designated state recipient. The extract counts 1 record tagged to CFDA 11.035 and Alabama. With one award, the implied mean equals the total: $1,401,221,902.

Is $1.40 billion Alabama’s full federal spending?

No. $1,401,221,902 is only the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program cell. Other CFDA programs with Alabama place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 11.035 is not limited to Alabama.

Do these obligations equal broadband construction completed?

No. $1,401,221,902 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Construction draws can lag the federal obligation by years.