Highway Research And Development Program awarded by Department of Transportation

Highway R&D × DOT is CFDA 20.200, not a lab census

This page is a join: Highway Research And Development Program (CFDA 20.200) and the Department of Transportation (agency 069). $603,364,345.16 is the obligation sum on that pair. It is not the government-wide assistance total, not every CFDA on All programs, and not cash already paid. Correlation is not causation: a large pair cell does not prove the Department of Transportation caused activity described by the program title, or the reverse. Campaign-finance tables are a different dataset; FEC donations do not fund these USAspending obligations.

/programs/20.200/ is the program parent without an awarding-agency filter. /agencies/069/ is the agency parent without this CFDA filter. /ties/ lists other pairs and /programs/ lists other CFDA hubs. A Highway Research And Development Program award tagged to a different awarding agency sits outside this cell even if the CFDA is still 20.200. A Department of Transportation award on a different CFDA sits outside even if the topic sounds related. Three hundred sixty-four awards is not 364 unique research campuses. Task orders and modifications add rows.

Highway Research And Development Program as the program side

CFDA 20.200 is Highway Research And Development Program. Confusing this join with Mega Projects 20.937, Emergency Relief 20.271, Maritime Fleet 20.813, or a state DOT research ranking would be a different table. Packet facts on the program side are the name Highway Research And Development Program, number 20.200, and program-wide obligations $603,364,345.16. This packet lists no award recipients and no contractor names. Any other vendor, school, tribe, carrier, or grantee list would be invented.

Readers sometimes treat a CFDA–agency total as a budget Congress passed for a named activity. $603,364,345.16 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation rollup tagged to Highway Research And Development Program and awarded by the Department of Transportation. Cite both sides. Do not treat this cell as National Infrastructure Project Assistance (CFDA 20.937). Research and mega-project construction assistance are different catalog pages.

Department of Transportation as the awarding-agency side

Awarding-agency code 069 is the Department of Transportation. It is not a bureau split inside that department, not a place-of-performance state, and not a NAICS industry. In this extract the pair cell $603,364,345.16 matches the program-wide obligation total $603,364,345.16. Do not treat the program-wide $603,364,345.16 as if it were automatically the pair headline when the two figures differ. When they match, equality still does not name recipients.

364 awards behind the highway-R&D–Transportation cell

The extract lists 364 awards on the Highway R&D × DOT pair. A mid-size research file: 364 awards against a large obligation total. Dividing $603,364,345.16 by 364 yields about $1.66 million per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical invoice and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. 364 is not a university-lab census, a named-PI roster, or a test-track inventory.

Highway R&D obligations are not invoices already paid to labs

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $603,364,345.16 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared over-reads the field. The join cannot say that the Department of Transportation specialized in highway r&d because of federal demand. Keep $603,364,345.16 labeled as Highway Research And Development Program obligations awarded by the Department of Transportation. It is not a university-lab census, a named-PI roster, or a test-track inventory. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so this page does not invent one.

Budget justifications, program catalogs, and private scorecards answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes Mega Projects 20.937, Emergency Relief 20.271, Maritime Fleet 20.813, or a state DOT research ranking with CFDA 20.200 at agency 069, the chart has left this join. Campus names, project titles, and test-track IDs are unpublished on this packet.

Hubs for Highway R&D awarded by Transportation

Open /programs/20.200/ for CFDA 20.200, /agencies/069/ for Department of Transportation, /programs/ for All programs, and /ties/ for All spending ties. None of those links convert this cell into Mega Projects 20.937, Emergency Relief 20.271, Maritime Fleet 20.813, or a state DOT research ranking, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Highway Research And Development Program and Department of Transportation, CFDA 20.200, agency 069, $603,364,345.16, 364 awards, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Questions

How much did Department of Transportation award under Highway R&D?

USAspending.gov records $603,364,345.16 in Highway Research And Development Program obligations awarded by the Department of Transportation (CFDA 20.200, agency 069). That is an obligation aggregate for the program–agency pair, not an outlay and not a government-wide total.

Is Highway R&D via DOT cash already paid to universities?

No. $603,364,345.16 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Highway R&D via DOT. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.

Do 364 awards mean 364 highway research labs?

No. 364 is the pair’s award-record count, not a published recipient census. Unique vendors and places are unpublished. Modifications can add rows. The implied mean is about $1.66 million, a quotient, not a typical award. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Which pages parent Highway R&D awarded by DOT?

/programs/20.200/ is the program parent. /agencies/069/ is the Department of Transportation parent. /programs/ lists CFDA hubs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Highway R&D × DOT at $603,364,345.16.