Congressionally Directed Assistance awarded by Department of Defense

What the 12.599–Defense join is

CFDA 12.599 and the Department of Defense (agency 097) meet in one program-agency cell. $467,949,585.46 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum tagged to that pair. It is not an outlay register, not a member-request scorecard, and not a count of earmarks. CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED ASSISTANCE is the Catalog title; this packet does not split $467,949,585.46 among installations or name recipients.

A directed-assistance cell with only 20 rows invites a per-project story. Unique recipients are unpublished. This page will not invent contractors, universities, or bases. Correlation with appropriations headlines is not causation.

The program book beside agency 097

This awarding-agency join publishes the same obligation total as the program extract ($467,949,585.46). Open /programs/12.599/ for CFDA 12.599 without requiring this agency filter, and /agencies/097/ for the Department of Defense hub without requiring this CFDA filter. Those parents are not addends to $467,949,585.46.

Other Defense assistance catalog lines are other keys. Mixing them into $467,949,585.46 would invent a combined directed-spending total the packet never computed. /programs/ lists every program; /ties/ indexes other pairs.

20 records are not 20 earmarks

20 is the award-record count on this CFDA 12.599 × agency 097 join. A small row count does not mean 20 named projects. Dividing $467,949,585.46 by 20 would invent a typical directed award the packet does not publish.

What the Directed Assistance Defense table omits

No outlay total, no installation list, no named primes. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Quote CFDA 12.599, agency 097, and $467,949,585.46 together. No fiscal year is in the facts.

Citing Directed Assistance via Defense

Keep Congressionally Directed Assistance and the Department of Defense on the same citation as $467,949,585.46. Use /programs/12.599/ for the program hub, /agencies/097/ for the agency hub, /programs/ for every program, and /ties/ for other joins.

The 20 award-record figure stays on this pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Obligations of $467,949,585.46 are not outlays. A later ingest can restate $467,949,585.46 without changing the join keys. Keep Congressionally Directed Assistance and Department of Defense together when citing $467,949,585.46. CFDA 12.599 via agency 097 lists 20 award records on this join. Obligations of $467,949,585.46 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this CFDA 12.599 × agency 097 pair. Do not add parent hubs into this program-agency cell. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this Congressionally Directed Assistance join. Quote CFDA 12.599, agency 097, and $467,949,585.46 in one sentence. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $467,949,585.46 without changing the join keys. This awarding-agency join publishes the same obligation total as the program extract ($467,949,585.46). Place-of-performance and NAICS splits are omitted from this packet. Keep Congressionally Directed Assistance and Department of Defense together when citing $467,949,585.46. CFDA 12.599 via agency 097 lists 20 award records on this join. Obligations of $467,949,585.46 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this CFDA 12.599 × agency 097 pair. Do not add parent hubs into this program-agency cell. Campaign-finance tables do not fund these USAspending obligations. Unique recipients remain unpublished on this Congressionally Directed Assistance join. Quote CFDA 12.599, agency 097, and $467,949,585.46 in one sentence. The All programs index and All spending ties index are larger than this cell. A later USAspending ingest can restate $467,949,585.46 without changing the join keys. This awarding-agency join publishes the same obligation total as the program extract ($467,949,585.46). Place-of-performance and NAICS splits are omitted from this packet. Keep Congressionally Directed Assistance and Department of Defense together when citing $467,949,585.46.

Questions

How much Congressionally Directed Assistance did Defense obligate?

USAspending.gov records $467,949,585.46 in Congressionally Directed Assistance obligations awarded by the Department of Defense under CFDA 12.599 (agency 097). That amount is an obligation join, not an outlay. Keep Congressionally Directed Assistance and Department of Defense on the same citation as $467,949,585.46.

Is $467,949,585.46 the entire CFDA 12.599 program total?

The program extract publishes $467,949,585.46. This join matches the program extract of $467,949,585.46. Do not add the program hub or the Defense hub into this cell as if they were extra dollars. 20 is the join award-record count, not a named-recipient census.

Do 20 awards mean 20 congressional projects?

No. 20 is the award-record count on this program-agency join, not an earmark or installation census. The packet does not name recipients, bases, or members. Obligations of $467,949,585.46 are not outlays. Obligations of $467,949,585 Keep both join sides in the citation.

Do campaign donations fund these Defense assistance awards?

No. FEC contribution tables and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing a Congress does not mean donations funded $467,949,585.46. This page reports USAspending.gov only. USAspending.gov remains the source for CFDA 12.599 via agency 097.