National Guard O&M Projects (CFDA 12.401) in Vermont

Vermont meeting CFDA 12.401 on one table

CFDA 12.401 is titled NATIONAL GUARD MILITARY OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE (O&M) PROJECTS. Crossed with Vermont place of performance, obligations sum to $168,903,373.34 on 55 awards. The national 12.401 hub includes other states. Vermont’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $168,903,373.34 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of armories or drill weekends in Vermont.

fifty-five awards is a mid-density operations-and-maintenance assistance file, not a facility census. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $168,903,373.34, 55 awards, VT, and 12.401. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep National Guard O&M Projects and Vermont together when reading $168,903,373.34.

Readers should keep CFDA 12.401 and Vermont in the same sentence as $168,903,373.34. The live table lives at /states/vt/programs/12.401/. Parent hubs at /programs/12.401/, /states/vt/, and /states/vt/programs/ are larger than this cell. /ties/ lists other spending ties. Do not add those parents into $168,903,373.34.

Guard O&M is not military construction

Military construction and other 12-series catalogs are different listings. Mixing them into this Vermont O&M cell would invent a combined Guard construction-and-operations book. Mixing those series into $168,903,373.34 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Vermont, CFDA 12.401, $168,903,373.34, 55 awards. Armory names, unit designations, and contractor names are unpublished.

The catalog title names National Guard Military Operations And Maintenance (O&M) Projects, not a ranking of Vermont Guard units. Dividing $168,903,373.34 by 55 yields about $3.07 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 55 is not an armory, soldier, or named-contractor census.

Place of performance in Vermont, not an armory ledger

VT is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Burlington, Montpelier, or Rutland can share the tag. Awards coded to New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, and Quebec-coded rows stored as other keys stay outside $168,903,373.34 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $168.9 million into a drill-site atlas.

Vermont federal spending is the all-program parent. 12.401 is one row on Vermont programs. $168.9 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National Guard Military Operations And Maintenance (O&M) Projects in Vermont for the filtered table, CFDA 12.401 for the catalog without a Vermont filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $168,903,373.34.

Fifty-five awards, still obligations

$168,903,373.34 ÷ 55 is about $3.07 million per award. That average is a low-seven-figure mean, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 55 as a record count, not as 55 unique armories or 55 named contractors.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 55 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $168,903,373.34 without changing the join key of 12.401 and VT. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $168,903,373.34 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains National Guard O&M Projects plus Vermont. Do not treat $168,903,373.34 as an outlay series.

What the Vermont–Guard O&M pair does not prove

A large 12.401 total tagged to Vermont does not measure whether Vermont drill attendance rose, and it does not equal operations invoices already paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $168,903,373.34 on 55 awards for National Guard O&M Projects in Vermont.

Keep both sides of the join: National Guard Military Operations And Maintenance (O&M) Projects and Vermont, obligations only. Do not annualize $168,903,373.34 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 55 as an armory, soldier, or named-contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a Green-Mountain-armory narrative. Cite National Guard O&M Projects together with Vermont whenever you reuse $168,903,373.34.

Using the Vermont National Guard overlay

The overlay target is the Vermont × CFDA 12.401 table. Open National Guard Military Operations And Maintenance (O&M) Projects in Vermont when you want the same $168,903,373.34 / 55-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 12.401 drops the Vermont filter. Vermont federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Vermont programs lists other catalogs beside 12.401. All spending ties indexes 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 Vermont won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 12.401 plus VT. Obligations of $168,903,373.34 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 12.401 × VT pair. 55 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census. Fifty-five Vermont instruments against $168,903,373.34 imply about $3.07 million per award as a ratio only. That mean is not a typical armory invoice. Burlington folklore is ordinary speech, not extra packet dollars. Do not pull New Hampshire-coded Guard rows into this VT cell. The official title keeps the O&M abbreviation; the join key remains CFDA 12.401 plus VT.

Questions

How much National Guard O&M is obligated in Vermont?

USAspending records $168,903,373.34 in CFDA 12.401 obligations with Vermont place of performance on 55 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National Guard Military Operations And Maintenance (O&M) Projects and Vermont together when citing $168,903,373.34. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 55 awards mean 55 Vermont armories?

55 is a USAspending award-record count, not an armory, soldier, or named-contractor census. The implied mean is about $3.07 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 55 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this Vermont's total federal defense spending?

No. This join is CFDA 12.401 only. Other 12-series construction catalogs sit on separate Vermont program pages. Nationwide 12.401 is not limited to Vermont. Obligations of $168,903,373.34 are not outlays. The overlay is the live National Guard O&M Projects–Vermont table.

Are these Guard O&M dollars already paid out?

No. $168,903,373.34 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 12.401 × VT pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.