Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment obligations in Virginia

One BEAD award beside Virginia’s other large cells

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 11.035 meets Virginia place of performance. The dollar book is $1,481,489,572.50. 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 rural southwest counties from Northern Virginia.

The join does not prove that Virginia’s unserved-location count, mountain geography, or a particular middle-mile map caused $1,481,489,572.50. Those are other series. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Virginia’s full federal total has left the CFDA-by-state definition. IDEA, CRF, and Post-9/11 education assistance are different cells on the same statewide stack. The 1 figure is a record count, not a count of passing addresses.

The implied mean equals the cell

One award under $1,481,489,572.50 implies a mean of $1,481,489,572.50. With a single row, mean and total are the same number. Downstream subawards to ISPs are not additional prime awards in this extract.

Virginia’s CRF cell also posts as a single award on a different catalog number; do not add the two from memory. Cite BEAD’s own columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the total as a typical last-mile contract.

Virginia’s 11.035 cell versus parent rollups

Virginia’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the Commonwealth. BEAD is one NTIA line. $1,481,489,572.50 is not Virginia’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 Virginia 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 $1,481,489,572.50 figure is an obligation sum. Construction outlays can trail the federal obligation by years. SpendingVault does not publish an 11.035-in-Virginia 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 × Virginia, $1,481,489,572.50, 1 award, obligations only.

Parent hubs

The Virginia × Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,481,489,572.50 on 1 award. The Virginia spending page and the CFDA 11.035 program page are the parents. The Virginia 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 Virginia BEAD is not

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program in Virginia is not a ranking of Southwest Virginia unserved locations and not a count of fiber miles. The $1,481,489,572.50 figure is the CFDA 11.035 × Virginia cell. One award describes the state allocation filing, not one ISP. CRF in Virginia is also a one-award cell on a different Treasury catalog number; do not add 11.035 and 21.019 from memory.

IDEA and Post-9/11 education assistance in Virginia post thicker tapes on other catalog numbers. Cite BEAD and Virginia 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.

Virginia’s BEAD cell also does not include FCC map locations, Southwest Virginia 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 × Virginia, $1,481,489,572.50, 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 Virginia, obligations only, one award on $1,481,489,572.50.

Questions

How much BEAD spending is in Virginia?

USAspending.gov shows $1,481,489,572.50 in CFDA 11.035 obligations coded to Virginia across 1 award. The join uses the program number and Virginia place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why is there only 1 award for $1.48 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 Virginia. With one award, the implied mean equals the total: $1,481,489,572.50.

Is $1.48 billion Virginia’s full federal spending?

No. $1,481,489,572.50 is only the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program cell. Other CFDA programs with Virginia place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 11.035 is not limited to Virginia.

Do these obligations equal broadband construction completed?

No. $1,481,489,572.50 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Construction draws can lag the federal obligation by years.