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Military Medical Research and Development obligations in Maryland

USAspending.gov records $3,500,731,126.51 in Military Medical Research and Development obligations (CFDA 12.420) with place of performance in Maryland, across 293 awards. The mean is about $11.95 million per award. This page joins Defense catalog 12.420 to the MD geography tag. It is not a hospital roster, not a ranking of Maryland bases, and not the state’s full federal total. Obligations are not outlays.

Key figures

  • CFDA 12.420 shows $3,500,731,126.51 in Maryland obligations on 293 awards.
  • Mean obligation is about $11.95 million per award.
  • The catalog is Military Medical Research and Development, not all Defense health spending.
  • Maryland is a geography tag, not a base ranking.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

Defense medical R&D meeting Maryland

CFDA 12.420 is titled MILITARY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. Crossed with Maryland place of performance, obligations sum to $3,500,731,126.51 on 293 awards. The national 12.420 hub includes every state. Maryland’s spending hub includes every program. This tie reports the overlap only.

Two hundred ninety-three awards is a mid-range research count: more instruments than a seven-award formula grant, fewer than a thousand-plus NIH-style cell. The join does not name Walter Reed, Fort Detrick, or university partners. Packet facts are $3,500,731,126.51, 293 awards, MD, and 12.420.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,500,731,126.51 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 12.420 and MD. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Maryland against other states on need, performance, or politics.

The National Capital Region straddles Maryland, Virginia, and the District. This cell keeps only MD. 293 awards totaling $3,500,731,126.51 at about $11.95 million each are CFDA 12.420 records tagged Maryland. Collaboration across the Potomac does not pull Virginia-coded awards into this total.

12.420 is not every Defense health dollar

Military construction, TRICARE-related assistance, and other Defense catalogs use different CFDA or contract families. Folding those into $3,500,731,126.51 would invent a broader medical total than this cell contains. HHS research catalogs in Maryland are separate joins as well.

Facts available: Maryland, CFDA 12.420, $3,500,731,126.51, 293 awards. Fiscal-year splits, intramural versus extramural shares, and topic areas (trauma, infectious disease, and so on) are not in the facts. The title is the catalog name, not a clinical outcome.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,500,731,126.51, 293 awards, CFDA 12.420, program title Military Medical Research And Development, and geography MD/Maryland. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 293 awards into $3,500,731,126.51 is about $11.95 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Defense health spending in ordinary speech includes TRICARE, construction, and intramural labs. CFDA 12.420 is military medical R&D. $3,500,731,126.51 does not swallow those other families. HHS research in Maryland is a different cabinet.

Maryland geography in the award file

MD is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Bethesda, Silver Spring, Frederick, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Virginia or the District of Columbia stay outside $3,500,731,126.51 even when the National Capital Region functions as one labor market.

Maryland federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 12.420 is one row on the Maryland programs list. $3.50 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance MD is a two-letter code in the award file. It can mark a state capital, a campus, a housing authority, a transit agency, or a default statewide tag. It does not prove where every subcontract ran, and it does not convert $3,500,731,126.51 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Mean near $11.95 million

$3,500,731,126.51 ÷ 293 is about $11.95 million per award. That average sits between small investigator grants and billion-dollar statewide blocks. It is not a median and not a typical lab invoice. Net obligations can include downward adjustments; the figure shown is the aggregate in the facts.

Treat 293 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 293 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,500,731,126.51 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 293 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Military Medical Research And Development–Maryland overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Maryland × CFDA 12.420 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,500,731,126.51 / 293-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 12.420 drops the Maryland filter. The Maryland spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Maryland programs index lists other catalogs beside Military Medical Research And Development. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Maryland “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,500,731,126.51 on 293 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Military Medical Research And Development in Maryland.

What the pair is not

A large 12.420 total tagged to Maryland does not mean Maryland residents caused the research agenda, and it does not equal cash disbursed. FEC filings do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Continue at Military Medical Research And Development in Maryland, CFDA 12.420, Maryland federal spending, Maryland programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much military medical research funding is obligated in Maryland?
USAspending records $3,500,731,126.51 in CFDA 12.420 obligations with Maryland place of performance across 293 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not all Defense spending in Maryland and not an outlay.
Does this include all Pentagon health spending in Maryland?
No. This join is CFDA 12.420 only. Other Defense and HHS catalogs use other numbers. The $3,500,731,126.51 total does not absorb those cells.
What is the average award size?
About $11.95 million ($3,500,731,126.51 ÷ 293). The mean is not a median grant and not a typical invoice.
Does place of performance mean the work happened only in Maryland?
Place of performance is a USAspending geography tag (MD). Subcontracts in other states can exist even when the award is tagged Maryland. Awards tagged elsewhere are excluded from this cell.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.